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Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 17, 2020
The first half of Barry Lyndon, very nicely delineated on screen with a title card and then an intermission, is a black comedy. The second half is a tragedy. The epilogue explicitly reconciles the two, but there’s also Michael Hordern’s narration, which does the most expository work of anything read more
All Rise (2019) s01e20 – Merrily We Ride Along
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 16, 2020
This episode’s credited writers, Gregory Nelson and Aaron Carter, have written episodes before but they mustn’t have stood out enough I was going to remember the writers. The writing only stands out this episode because there’s a great courtroom scene with Jessica Camacho cross-examining a witness, read more
Frasier (1993) s01e10 – Oops
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 16, 2020
It’s another strong episode. “Frasier”’s combination for success is the scripts—in this case, from writers Denise Moss and Sy Dukane—the supporting cast, and then the bigger name guest stars. Because whether you know his name or not, John Glover is a name guest star. He’s in this episode read more
Sleeper: Season One (2003-04)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 16, 2020
Some of Sleeper doesn’t age well. There’s a whole plot line about the secret society running the world and, in 2020, it seems like a very dated trope. To be fair, it was dated in 2003 when Sleeper came out, but writer Ed Brubaker was at least utilizing the trope to sabotage it. There’s also the read more
In the Gloaming (1997, Christopher Reeve)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 15, 2020
In the Gloaming is a qualified success. If you’re trying to go for humanizing a guy dying of AIDS while his upper middle class White yuppie family is slow to realize he’s a dying person who they probably ought not to avoid because they’ll regret it… it does that job. Gloaming is an hour-long read more
Frasier (1993) s01e09 – Selling Out
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 15, 2020
Selling Out is a Kelsey Grammer episode overall—Frasier gets into the lucrative world of on air endorsing and finds himself tempted further and further way from his professional ethics as a psychiatrist—but it’s Harriet Sansom Harris who makes it so special. The Grammer stuff would be funny no read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e04 – Death at Victoria Docks
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 15, 2020
This episode lacks the spark of the previous ones; it’s still solid and well-acted—even by the less sparkly supporting characters—and has nearly all the supporting favorites back (meaning aunt Miriam Margolyes and Essie Davis’s ward, Ruby Rees), but the main plot is a bit of a shrug. Also—the read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e08 – The Tiger King and I
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 14, 2020
At the end of The Tiger King and I, host Joel McHale—sitting in his living room because the coronavirus pandemic has him in lock down (the Trump Flu plays a big part, presumably, in all the interviewees ready availabilities)—makes a crack about how there’s nothing he won’t do for money, implying read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e03 – The Green Mill Murder
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 14, 2020
There’s a lot going on this episode for star Essie Davis even though it’s not entirely clear to the audience until much later in the episode. Just before the mystery resolve, actually. This murder case has hit close to home for Davis, who’s on the scene when it happens—she’s meeting old friend read more
Chad Agamemnon (2017) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 14, 2020
This first issue is, sadly, the only issue of Chad Agamemnon. Creator Nowak wrote and drew the book for the Ann Arbor Public Library and, whatever the arrangement, it wasn’t feasible for the book to continue. A bummer, because it’s charming as all heck. The titular Chad is a young wizard in exile, read more
Frasier (1993) s01e08 – Beloved Infidel
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 13, 2020
In some ways, this episode of “Frasier” is the best one so far. If the show is supposed to be about Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Martin (John Mahoney) actually connecting as son and father, respectively, Leslie Eberhard’s script does it. It does it so much you’re left wondering what the repercussio read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e02 – Murder on the Ballarat Train
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 13, 2020
This episode takes place soon after the first, with communist taxi drivers Travis McMahon and Anthony J. Sharpe not yet full-time in Essie Davis’s employ. Well, they don’t know they’re in her full-time employ yet. They realize it in their second scene, when she gets them a new car and they start read more
Mighty Joe Young (1949, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 13, 2020
From the first scene, Mighty Joe Young is concerning. There’s a nice establishing shot of an Africa plantation, with some great matte work, then little White girl on the plantation Lora Lee Michel sees a couple African men passing with a basket. She wants what’s in the basket, so there’s a nice read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e01 – Cocaine Blues
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 12, 2020
Of course, “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” is based on a novel. How did I miss it was based on a novel… Not because Deb Cox’s script ever feels too much like an adaptation—quite the opposite—but because it does such a good job setting up the supporting cast. Lead Essie Davis meets her read more
To Be Seen (2014)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 12, 2020
To Be Seen is this lyrical piece about an unnamed female tween narrator and her life at a particular time. There are six vignettes in the comic, with most of them echoing throughout others. The strips are gentle, sometimes funny, sometimes scary—Nowak captures that period where in childhood where read more
Frasier (1993) s01e07 – Call Me Irresponsible
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 12, 2020
It’s a Kelsey Grammar-centric episode—it’s about Frasier’s first girlfriend since the divorce, though they’re never too specific about it (just Frasier still thinks women don’t have to pay on dates). Only he manages to screw it all up, even when he finds out the girlfriend (Amanda Donohue read more
Magnum Force (1973, Ted Post)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 11, 2020
With forty minutes left in its way too long 124 minute runtime, Magnum Force starts getting real tiresome. The film’s already gone through multiple set pieces, with the Clint Eastwood ones pointless to the narrative but apparently what screenwriters Michael Cimino and John Milius think is character read more
All Rise (2019) s01e19 – In the Fights
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 11, 2020
I wonder if occurred to the producers they should’ve saved up to license With A Little Help From My Friends for this episode, which is mostly about Jessica Camacho–who started the show getting out of a physically abusive marriage—defending a client accused of assaulting his girlfriend and read more
Frasier (1993) s01e06 – The Crucible
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 11, 2020
This episode brings Peri Gilpin to Kelsey Grammer’s apartment for the first time. It’s not because of what happens with Gilpin there but what doesn’t. During the course of the episode, she meets Grammer’s dad, John Mahoney, but not onscreen. She comes up in conversation later when Mahoney suggests read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e20 – The Mephisto Waltz
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 10, 2020
So, Luke Ford, who plays Lucifer this episode, looks a lot like Taylor Kitsch. Enough I thought they maybe paid for Kitsch. They didn’t, they got Ford. Who doesn’t seem to have voiced goat Satan in the previous episodes. Anyway. It’s the big finale, with Kiernan Shipka unintentionally letting read more