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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964, Honda Ishirô)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 7, 2008
Maybe half of Ghidorah is interesting. Or has the potential to be interesting. After the giant monster-heavy opening credits (stills of Godzilla and Rodan in battle), that aspect disappears for a while. Instead, Ghidorah is a strange mix of reporter and political intrigue movies. Hoshi Yuriko is a read more
Teachers (1984, Arthur Hiller)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 1, 2008
It must have been Bette Midler’s former manager, Aaron Russo (Teachers‘s producer), who somehow confused Arthur Hiller as the creative force behind The Hospital. Teachers is very much like The Hospital, but in its stoic protagonist, the stoic protagonist’s ultimate choice in the e read more
Million Dollar Legs (1932, Edward F. Cline)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 31, 2008
Million Dollar Legs is, production-wise, about a year early. It came out in 1932. A year later, another comedy about a goofy European nation, also from Paramount (from the same producer), came out. Duck Soup was a bomb at the time and appreciated later. Million Dollar Legs has a great reputation read more
Conan the Barbarian (1982, John Milius)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 28, 2008
John Milius takes Conan the Barbarian very seriously. The occasional use of slow motion and the endlessness of Basil Poledouris’s cheesy score signal Milius’s dedication. So do the long and frequent sequences of shirtless Arnold Schwarzenegger playing with big swords. At the beginning o read more
Mothra (1961, Honda Ishirô)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 15, 2008
Mothra is a strange mix of Japanese monster movie, 1950s Hollywood sci-fi and Disney. The last ingredient only becomes clear at the end of the movie, though it’s probably present throughout (as Mothra returns home with the two fairies, it’s clear Mothra would have made a fine animated f read more
Prince of Darkness (1987, John Carpenter)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 11, 2008
I’d forgotten Prince of Darkness‘s more fanciful notions–Jesus the space alien, still sent to Earth to save us from the Devil, but this time, the Devil’s kind of a space alien too (or not)–and its less creative ones (the Devil uses projectile vomit to posses people). I read more
American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 4, 2008
I don’t know where to start. The most flippant place to start–the most colloquial–is with George Lucas… specifically, what happened to the George Lucas who made American Graffiti. But it’s not just Lucas. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck didn’t go on to write anythi read more
Dead of Winter (1987, Arthur Penn)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 25, 2008
Loath as I am to be glib about a director like Arthur Penn, Dead of Winter comes off like a TNT Original Movie. Penn proves himself–with the exception of maybe one scene and even then it’s awkward because it’s Arthur Penn using Steadicam–almost completely inept at directing read more
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The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 20, 2008
Hello, and welcome, to the Stop Button “About” page. I’m Andrew Wickliffe and I’ve been blogging here so long the site can get a driving permit. I write about movies, comics, and television. On rare occasion, I write longer pieces in hopes of driving traffic to the older pie read more
The Morning After (1986, Sidney Lumet)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 19, 2008
The Morning After is an awkward combination of thriller and adult drama. As a thriller, with Paul Chihara’s enthusiastic and bombastic score, it’s frequently annoying. Jane Fonda can scrub a crime scene of every thread of evidence, but the simple things–like dropping a succeeding read more
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The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 15, 2006
Hello, and welcome, to the Stop Button “About” page. I’m Andrew Wickliffe and I’ve been blogging here so long the site can get a driving permit. I write about movies, comics, and television. On rare occasion, I write longer pieces in hopes of driving traffic to the older pie read more
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The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 9, 2006
Hello, and welcome, to the Stop Button “About” page. I’m Andrew Wickliffe and I’ve been blogging here so long the site can get a driving permit. I write about movies, comics, and television. On rare occasion, I write longer pieces in hopes of driving traffic to the older pie read more
Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer), Chapter 10: Flying Spies
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 30, -0001
And now Batman is back to the misleading chapter titles. There aren’t spies in Flying Spies, there’s only one spy on the plane. After the laziest cliffhanger resolution in the series so far–and there have been some lazy ones–Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft take a break from c read more