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You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939, Lewis Seiler)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 29, 2020
The You in You Can’t Get Away With Murder refers to Billy Halop, nineteen year-old punk kid who doesn’t respect what sister Gale Page sacrifices for him and instead runs around with neighborhood tough Humphrey Bogart. They knock over gas stations, they play pool, it’s a good life… at least until read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e01 – Not Your Average Joe
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 29, 2020
First off, let’s just get the following statements out of the way. Netflix needs to hire Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and Tim Burton to make “Tiger King” into a movie and they need to cast Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Val Kilmer. George Clooney can stunt cameo. It’s what we read more
Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 28, 2020
The two most bewildering things about Annihilation are director Garland’s inability to frame for Panavision aspect ratio—did cinematographer Rob Hardy just not want to tell him he was reusing the same three close-up shots, with his subject on one side of the frame, looking off, the other three-quar read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e07 – Feast of Feasts
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2020
Netflix did drop “Sabrina” all at once so who knows if this Thanksgiving episode was meant to “air” on Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving theme doesn’t last long—enough to introduce the hilarious idea of Miranda Otto sitting and watching football all day for the violence–but once the witch read more
Erik the Viking (1989, Terry Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2020
Erik the Viking is a great example of when the director doesn’t know how to direct the script. What makes it peculiar is… director Jones wrote the script. The film, an absurd comedy about a group of Vikings trying to end Ragnarok so they people will stop killing each other, starts with the th read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e08 – The Burial
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2020
Maggie Kiley directs this one and Kiley’s so far the best director on “Sabrina,” so I went in with high hopes. It doesn’t disappoint, which is something given how much the episode does. It starts with a mine collapse in Greendale, last episode’s cliffhangers—mean girls Abigail Cowen and read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e06 – An Exorcism in Greendale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 26, 2020
The opening showdown with Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) confronting Ms. Wardwell (Michelle Gomez) about Wardwell being a witch, spying on Sabrina, saving Sabrina from the sleep demon. Wardwell gives her a questionable tale about how she’s fulfilling a promise to Sabrina’s dead dad to protect her, which read more
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019, Michael Dougherty)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 26, 2020
I wonder if, much like that one immortal monkey divining Borges’s dreams and half-dreams at dawn on August 14, 1934, one could assemble a list of all the action beats in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which are mostly from Aliens and Jurassic Park 1 and 2, and arrange them to figure out the story read more
Congo (1995, Frank Marshall)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
At the end of Congo, after the heroes have found the lost expedition, the lost city, and the laser-pure diamonds but also run afoul of said lost city’s super-ape protectors and happened to find this place during a volcanic eruption, some of the super-apes jump into the lava flow. It’s a somewhat read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e04 – Witch Academy
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
I’m very confused; the witch school is within walking distance from the farm where Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) lives. I thought it was a boarding school far away. Turns out it’s a boarding school—Shipka has to do three nights there—but it’s within walking distance. So she was never going to see read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e05 – Dreams in a Witch House
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
This episode starts immediately after the previous one—Kiernan Shipka has just opened a demonic Rubik’s cube, designed by her dead father when he was in the same witch academy she now attends, and released a sleep demon (a make-up encased and excellent Megan Leitch). The episode is just the demon read more
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020, Cathy Yan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 24, 2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a Margot Robbie vehicle, which is excellent, because Robbie’s great and the filmmaking, particularly on Robbie’s scenes, is outstanding. Retitling it the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn would be the best move; the Bird read more
Timeline (2003, Richard Donner)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
Timeline is really bad. The opening sequence starts Donner regular Steve Kahan in a terrible bit part but at least there’s the stunt casting; the rest of the poorly edited sequence has ER doctors and anonymous law enforcement looking into the mysterious death of a man who appeared in the middle of read more
Becker (1998) s01e19 – Truth and Consequences
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
Marsha Myers wrote this episode and Myers has been one of the only reliable writers this season. So high hopes for it. And strange disappointment because Truth and Consequences does succeed but it doesn’t have much to do with Myers’s script. It succeeds because it’s got Richard Schiff in a sitcom read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e03 – The Trial of Sabrina Spellman
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
No Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa script this episode, Ross Maxwell instead, which initially confirmed my idea about how the first two episodes were the extended pilot and now we’re getting into series proper. Actually, no, because this episode serves to set the series up to be, you know, a series. The epi read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e02 – The Dark Baptism
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
I started this episode very happy Lee Toland Krieger was directing and then immediately regretted it because Krieger uses these camera filters—the iMovie version of wiping Vaseline on the lens—to center viewer attention. So while “Sabrina” has that questionable streaming 2.1:1 aspect ratio… read more
Becker (1998) s01e18 – Saving Harvey Cohen
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
The episode plays like writer Eric Cohen really likes “Becker.” Everyone in the cast gets something to do; even if it’s a little subplot, it’s a complete one. The main plot has Becker (Ted Danson) reluctantly caring for a sick stray cat, including some really obvious stuff when he takes it to read more
The 13th Warrior (1999, John McTiernan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 22, 2020
No one in The 13th Warrior seems particularly thrilled to be participating in The 13th Warrior. Some people carry it better than others—Omar Sharif’s cameo is the only “good” acting in the film, as he translates and interprets events for lead Antonio Banderas, who can’t speak the common language read more
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955, Robert Gordon)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 21, 2020
I finished watching It Came from Beneath the Sea, which I regret, particularly because the whole reason I didn’t shut it down was for the big special effects finale, when the giant radioactive octopus finally attacks a city. Incidentally, it’s San Francisco, which doesn’t turn out to be anywhere read more
Becker (1998) s01e17 – Partial Law
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 21, 2020
Even though I know I don’t remember this episode—the first in the series directed by Ken Levine, whose blog convinced me to give “Becker” another shot back in the day and was seemingly correct since I watched the whole show even though it’s a slog to get to through the opening fumbles—it read more