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Ginger Snaps (2000, John Fawcett)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
Ginger Snaps is almost there. Karen Walton’s script is almost there, Fawcett’s direction is almost there, Emily Perkins’s lead performance is almost there, Katharine Isabelle’s is… okay, it’s not almost there by the end, when Isabelle’s acting through latex makeup, but she’s good in read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e02 – Maybe I’m Crazy
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
Oh, the secrets. So many secrets. Linda Cardellini has secrets from Christina Applegate—the scene where Applegate tells Cardellini she’s a saint and Cardellini says something like, “you’ll come to find out I’m the Devil,” is a little too on the nose. But then the show has its secrets too. read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e04 – Deadweight
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
One upbeat (enough) “Miss Fisher’s” was apparently all they could take because this one is a very, very sad one. It’s all about a boxing troupe and the damage done on the community because of it. The community in question is the young poor men who spend their time in street gangs. Constable read more
Frasier (1993) s01e21 – Travels with Martin
The Stop Button Posted by on May 5, 2020
This episode is Linda Morris and Vic Rauseo’s first as the credited writers. Most of the show’s teams as men and women couples; I wonder if it’s intentional or coincidental. But I didn’t catch the writer credits again this time and was curious because Travels With Martin is a quintessential read more
Rogue One (2016, Gareth Edwards)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 4, 2020
Sadly, the Writers Guild of America does not publish their arbitrations for writing credits, because the one on Rogue One has got to be a doozy; I desperately want to know how they go to this script. Did it actually start as a video game or did director Edwards really have no idea how to do action read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e03 – Dead Man’s Chest
The Stop Button Posted by on May 4, 2020
Last season, “Miss Fisher’s” went out of its way not to have detective Essie Davis happen into mysteries solely because she’s a rich White lady in the 1920s. Though… I mean, it sort of did. But this episode makes no attempt to contrive a reason to get Davis involved in the Julia Blake’s read more
Frasier (1993) s01e20 – Fortysomething
The Stop Button Posted by on May 4, 2020
I immediately recognized Reba McEntire as the caller this episode, which is strange because I’m pretty sure I based it entirely on who they could be having as a guest in 1994 with an accent like McEntire’s. Though I suppose it’s possible Tremors is burnt deep into the grey matter. McEntire’s read more
Bad Education (2019, Cory Finley)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 3, 2020
Bad Education is the story of a junior in high school (Geraldine Viswanathan) uncovering the biggest school embezzlement case in United States history, something like $12 million dollars. Only it’s not Viswanathan’s movie. It’s Hugh Jackman’s movie, which makes sense because Hugh Jackman’s read more
The Enforcer (1976, James Fargo)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 2, 2020
The Enforcer is cheap in all the wrong ways, both in terms of budget and narrative, which probably ought to be clear in the first scene, when the movie opens on a butt shot of Jocelyn Jones in Daisy Dukes. She’s hitchhiking but it’s all a setup for the villain reveal—Jones is in an ostensible read more
Dead to Me (2019) s01e01
The Stop Button Posted by on May 1, 2020
The currently strangest thing, one episode into “Dead To Me”—not counting director Amy York Rubin’s pointlessly pensive shot composition, which just distracts in a thirty minute “sitcom”—is how the show handles the humor. Outside the cold open, which has lead Christina Applegate short read more
Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 1, 2020
I really didn’t want to bag on Clueless when I watched it this time, the first time since the theater, almost twenty-four years ago. It got good reviews on release, which I fully disagreed with—I’d forgotten how much audiences in the eighties and nineties liked farcical sitcom-level characterizatio read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) s02e04 – The Curse
The Stop Button Posted by on May 1, 2020
So, remember last time when I was worried about Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) and his subplot with the vampire hunters and then said I shouldn’t be worried about it because I should just trust in “Shadows”? I was right, I shouldn’t be worried about it. This episode’s Guillén subplot has him read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e02 – Death Comes Knocking
The Stop Button Posted by on May 1, 2020
If this episode of “Miss Fisher’s” doesn’t have the highest body, it definitely feels like it has the highest. People get killed off throughout the runtime—and before it, actually, in flashback. The episode opens with a séance, which is automatically awesome just thinking about Essie Davis read more
Frasier (1993) s01e19 – Give Him the Chair!
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 30, 2020
I missed the writing credits at the beginning of the episode, so every time there was a particularly mean joke—usually at Maris’s expense—I got curious who wrote it. Anne Flett-Giordano and Chuck Ranberg, who’ve been the season’s sturdiest writers; outside the cheap mean jokes, they’re also read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s02e01 – Murder Most Scandalous
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 30, 2020
Season Two starts off with a bunch of flashy character reveals, with finally meeting Nathan Page’s ex-wife (Dee Smart) not even being the main one. Very prim, very proper, very Catholic Ashleigh Cummings’s sister, Anna Bamford, is a sex worker and works in a brothel where one of the girls has just read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e10 – The Great British Fake Off
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 29, 2020
Okay, “Legends” is going to fifteen episodes this season; this one is episode ten and it feels like they’re getting really close to resolving the season’s main plot and I’m really hoping they don’t meander this season like they did last. They got lost meandering. This episode is split between read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e13 – King Memses’ Curse
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 29, 2020
I’m a fan of this season finale—and season resolver—and would be even if it didn’t (unintentionally?) follow a bunch of the same narrative beats as Halloween H20. No spoilers. But… it’s H20. After the pre-title murder—a gruesome but not gory one—the action picks up the next morning after read more
City Streets (1931, Rouben Mamoulian)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 29, 2020
The first third of City Streets is this awesome bit of experimenting from director Mamoulian as he tries to figure out how to make a sound picture. Lots of great shots and camera setups, usually with too dawdling cuts. William Shea holds everything just a few seconds too long. But the montage image read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e12 – Murder in the Dark
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 28, 2020
It’s truly amazing what they’re able to get away with this episode in terms of red herrings, shoehorned subplots, shock tactics, exploitative tension, and so on. Director Daina Reid and writer Ysabelle Dean put everyone through the ringer—with a couple really obvious questions left open at the read more
Frasier (1993) s01e18 – And the Whimper Is…
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 28, 2020
“Frasier,” the show, has made a few references to the popularity of “The Frasier Crane Show,” the in-show radio program Kelsey Grammer hosts. At one point it seemed to be on the ropes, with Grammer and producer Peri Gilpin worrying they’d get cancelled, then it was getting better ratings than read more