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Nimona (2015)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 10, 2020
Nimona started as a webcomic, which explains some of how creator Noelle Stevenson paces it and sets the narrative distance. It often feels very much like a traditional newspaper strip, showing the (admittedly peculiar) domestic lives of its cast. The first book opens with teen Nimona sneaking into read more
Frasier (1993) s01e04 – I Hate Frasier Crane
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 9, 2020
This episode has two celebrity guest callers—Judith Ivey is the patient and Joe Mantegna as part of the plot. Mantegna is a Seattle Times newspaper columnist who can’t stand lead Kelsey Grammer’s show. Grammer has a couple great monologues where he reads from the articles and rants about them. read more
A Safe Place (1971, Henry Jaglom)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 9, 2020
A Safe Place tracks the relationship of apparently financially secure but listless hippie Tuesday Weld and her square of a new boyfriend, Phil Proctor. Weld spends her time presumably stoned—though we don’t see her smoke, her friends are always rolling a joint or smoking one—and dwelling on the read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e19 – The Mandrake
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 9, 2020
This episode gets off to a rough start wrapping up last episode’s cliffhanger—Sabrina and the gang discovering a shrine to her in the mines, which is at least hundreds of years old. Kevin Rodney Sullivan’s direction is peculiar in a bad way (unless there’s a good reason for it like they reshot read more
Fresh Horses (1988, David Anspaugh)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 8, 2020
The surprise tragedy of Fresh Horses is Molly Ringwald could’ve been good in it. Even though she’s top-billed, she doesn’t get a scene without Andrew McCarthy until almost halfway through the movie—she’s the white trash object of his working-to-middle class sexual lust—but she’s not good read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e18 – The Miracles of Sabrina Spellman
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 8, 2020
So following Sabrina showing herself off as a possible messiah, Richard Coyle gets back to town with Miranda Otto—Otto’s totally Stepford Wives—and convinces his bosses she’s a heretic and they’re just going to have to kill her. Meanwhile, Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) is enjoying her new powers. read more
Frasier (1993) s01e03 – Dinner at Eight
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 8, 2020
This episode features Niles (David Hyde Pierce) meeting Daphne (Jane Leeves) for the first time and it’s amazing. Also amazing is how Kelsey Grammer is on it from the start, initially bewildered at Hyde Pierce’s behavior. Grammer really gets across how predictable Frasier finds his brother. It’s read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e17 – The Missionaries
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 7, 2020
So, actually, no, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” apparently hasn’t hit the darkest hour or the point of no return yet because this episode just sort of shrugs at all the disastrous things gone wrong for Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) and her family. Cousin Ambrose (Chance Perdomo—who’s great this read more
Rocky and Bullwinkle (2014, Gary Trousdale)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 7, 2020
Is it really so hard to make a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon? It’s somewhat unfair to just crap on the writing (by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant), the acting (June Foray’s back as Bullwinkle but barely in it), the editing (it’s hard to say if Mark Deimel’s timing is off or if it’s Trousdale’s read more
Frasier (1993) s01e02 – Space Quest
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 7, 2020
This episode picks up right after the previous one, which you’d think have been a no-no in the syndication chasing days of sitcoms. But, no, the first scene is not at all morning person Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) getting up late and groggily confused about what Jane Leeves is doing in his apart read more
Frasier (1993) s01e01 – The Good Son
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 6, 2020
When it comes to the multi-cam sitcom, I can’t imagine a more efficient, effective pilot than “Frasier”’s The Good Son. David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee’s script is perfectly constructed, showcasing the cast while maintaining the focus on lead Kelsey Grammer. Since it’s a spin-off read more
What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963, Martin Scorsese)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 6, 2020
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? is an absurd but arty comedy short. Director Scorsese mixes full motion video with stills, which sometimes do stand-ins for scenes—like protagonist Zeph Michaelis marrying Nice Girl Mimi Stark—sometimes just for expository stuff. See, Mich read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e16 – Blackwood
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 6, 2020
Back when they were writing Alien, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon and producer Gordon Carroll disagreed where the end of the second act falls. Gordon said it was “the darkest hour,” whereas O’Bannon countered with “the point of no return.” The idea being a point of no return is less subjective. read more
The Raid (2011, Gareth Evans), the international version
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 5, 2020
For the first forty-five minutes or so, The Raid is able to keep going on the idea lead Iko Uwais is going to be the most kick ass fighter in the movie. There a handful of short expository scenes throughout the film, plus a prologue, where Uwais prays, does some martial arts workouts (it’s all Indo read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e15 – Doctor Cerberus’ House of Horror
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 5, 2020
I was ready to love this episode. I wanted to love this episode. Ross Maxwell’s one of the names I like seeing on the writing credit. But this episode is a big whiff. Alex Garcia Lopez’s direction not being good is one of the problems. The other one is concept really not paying off. It plays like read more
Becker (1998) s01e21 – Lucky Day
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 5, 2020
Earl Pomerantz did not write any “Becker” episodes previous to this one, which surprised me. His name seemed familiar—he worked on sitcoms for forty years, so no doubt I’ve seen it before—and the way he wrote “Becker” felt, sadly, familiar too. He does the “Becker whines” approach. read more
Elite Squad (2007, José Padilha)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 4, 2020
Elite Squad is about how hard it is to be a fascist stormtrooper in Rio de Janeiro, because not only do you have to deal with militarized criminals, corrupt cops, smooth-talking (and sexy) liberals, you also might have a wife who doesn’t like you being a fascist stormtrooper or some dead kid’s mom read more
Becker (1998) s01e20 – Drive, They Said
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 4, 2020
There’s a disconnect during the opening titles; it says, “Written by David Isaacs and Ken Levine” (or however they do it), but it’s not a particularly good scene. Jonathan Nichols is a patient who stiffs Becker (Ted Danson) on his bills so Danson is mean to him. Beating up on the patient… read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e14 – Lupercalia
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 4, 2020
I’m not sure if I’ve ever known the word “fecund,” but thanks to this episode of “Sabrina,” I do now and beware. I’m always looking for a good adjective. It comes up when Richard Coyle is sweet-talking Miranda Otto and, although Coyle is one of the least dynamic casting choices, he’s read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e07 – Dethroned
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 3, 2020
Based on his interviews this episode, it appears Jeff Lowe spent years getting Joe Exotic more and more enraged over Carole Baskin so at some point Lowe would be able to convince Exotic to hire someone to kill her. Possibly even just Allen Glover. Both “Doc” Antle and Joshua Dial think Joe was set read more