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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
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
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
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
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e13 – The Passion of Sabrina Spellman
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 3, 2020
Big development this episode… Satan, Lucifer, the Dark Lord, et cetera, is an active character. He appears as a goat-headed demon and whoever does the voice isn’t credited (whoever’s doing it isn’t the right casting) and He wants to get Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) to do his bidding. Not because read more
Little Women (2019, Greta Gerwig)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 3, 2020
Little Women has two parallel timelines. There’s the present, starting in post-Civil War New York City with teacher and pulp writer Saoirse Ronan living in boarding house (where she also teaches). Then it flashes back to Ronan’s life seven years earlier, at home in rural Massachusetts; she’s the read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e12 – The Epiphany
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 2, 2020
It’s a new year for “Chilling Adventures,” literally, with the episode picking up after winter break as Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) has decided she’ll no longer be attending Baxter High and going to witch academy full-time. New Baxter High principal and actual Biblical figure (albeit unbeknownst read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e06 – The Noble Thing to Do
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 2, 2020
So now we’ve got the downfall of Joe Exotic, promised in the first episode, the pieces not aligned until now. Businesses undefined businessman Jeff Lowe has returned to Oklahoma after basically getting run out of Las Vegas to discover Joe has been forging his name on multiple documents in addition read more
The Daytrippers (1996, Greg Mottola)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 2, 2020
There are two profoundly well-directed scenes in the third act of The Daytrippers, including the last one, so you really want to give what you can of it a pass. Daytrippers is very straightforward, even through the various complexities of the third act, but just because Mottola (who wrote as well a read more
The Irishman (2019, Martin Scorsese)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 1, 2020
The disconcerting part of The Irishman’s actually never-ending CGI isn’t the aging and de-aging, it’s star Robert De Niro’s creepy blue eyes. For the first half hour of the (three and a half hour runtime), I was trying to get used to De Niro’s CGI… makeup, but kept having problems with it, read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e05 – Make America Exotic Again
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 1, 2020
So, luckily, businessman Jeff Lowe beating tigers at the end of last episode was just a horrifying teaser not the actual content of this episode. In fact, Lowe doesn’t hit a single animal in this episode. They don’t even use the footage again. And the ominous “Jeff Lowe takeover” of the zoo… read more
Gelateria (2019, Christian Serritiello and Arthur Patching)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
Once it’s clear directors Patching and Serritiello are going to be able to keep Gelateria going, the question becomes how can they possibly end it. The film opens with a lone figure on a rocky beach, yelling into the sea. The water has sound, the yells don’t have sound. Given how the film ends… read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e11 – A Midwinter’s Tale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
It’s a Christmas special—or a Winter Solstice special—set before winter break for the teens, which adds to the weirdness because even though Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) said farewell to beau Ross Lynch last episode… turns out they’re still going to the same school. Yes, even though she’s all read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e04 – Playing with Fire
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
This episode’s about how awful both Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin turn out to be when it comes to money. Baskin’s won a lawsuit against Joe Exotic and he owes her a cool million. Carole and Howard aren’t doing it to prove a point or to stop Joe from doing his cub petting roadshow, they’re doing read more
Familiar Strangers (2020, Murat Sayginer)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Once the technology gets better, something like Familiar Strangers is going to be disturbing as all hell. Director Sayginer has created a bunch of heads, using deep-fake technology to look like various famous celebrities (Maggie Gyllenhaal and Luke Evans are the most spot on), and the top row moves read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e02 – Cult of Personality
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Somehow this episode manages to bury the lede. Will I spoil that lede? Not yet, but probably. “Tiger King” is a masterwork of manipulation as far as narrative non-fiction. Directors Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode have a great sense of what to hold back and what to get out there. For example, a read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e03 – The Secret
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Has Michelle Pfeiffer ever played a femme fatale? I almost want to say no, which will make Tim Burton’s Tigers even better. Because Carole Baskin sure does seem like she killed her second husband, rich guy Don Lewis (it’s unclear how he got rich but they’re in Florida so it doesn’t seem like read more
Flimsy’s Mewsings (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Flimsy’s Mewsings is approximately thirty-seven single page comic strips—there’s one two-pager, a recipe—of adorable kitten Flimsy offering life advance. Gentle stuff like be kind to yourself, remember the lesson and forget the mistake, be genuinely interested in other people, email the friends read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e10 – The Witching Hour
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Ross Maxwell co-write, sending off of “Sabrina”’s first season, with a deus ex machine of an episode where Michelle Gomez decides she’s been waiting too long for Kiernan Shipka to embrace the Dark Lord and it’s time to get drastic about things. If Gomez can’t sabotage read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e09 – The Returned Man
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 29, 2020
This episode could also be called Everything Falls Apart. It puts Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) through one ringer after another; Shipka’s antics of the last couple episodes have resulted in some very bad, very dangerous situations—soulless cannibalistic husk people bad and dangerous—and she doesn’t read more