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Hunters (2020) s01e08 – The Jewish Question
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
Well… while this issue has some great stuff for Carol Kane and Saul Rubinek, pretty much everyone else is at the other end of the stick, which seems like a mixed metaphor but basically there’s some not great acting this episode. The Nazis blowing up a subway was the final straw to convince Logan read more
Hunters (2020) s01e07 – Shalom Motherf***er
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
“Hunters” and the secret history of July 13, 1977! It doesn’t just tie into an actual historical event, it causes an actual historical event. It also then directly ties into Summer of Sam then… I wonder if you could cut the entire movie into “Hunters” and just have it be a subplot. The Nazis read more
Hunters (2020) s01e09 – The Great Ole Nazi Cookout of ’77
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
“Hunters” must’ve had the same thought I did about hammering in the point “Operation Paperclip” was a real thing as this one starts with another of the show’s overly stylized, retro PSA videos. But it doesn’t need the history lesson for this episode, because this episode is where everything read more
Hunters (2020) s01e10 – Eilu v’ Eilu
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
So when I thought “Hunters” was going to use the tenth episode to set up next season… turns out I was mistaken. There’s some setup for next season, complete with some betrayals and cast changes and very big surprise surprises, but it’s mostly a resolution to this season. To things the show read more
All Rise (2019) s01e17 – I Love You, You’re Perfect, I Think
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
Despite a forced start with Jessica Camacho and roomie and BFF Lindsay Mendez going hiking in some canyon before work and not finding a body, with some particularly forced angst from Camacho regarding boyfriend J. Alex Brinson declaring his love for her, the episode works out to be one of “All Ris read more
All Rise (2019) s01e18 – The Tale of Three Arraignments
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
I think I know “All Rise” continuity better than the writers because when they introduce previously unmentioned Third Musketeer Ryan Michelle Bathe (she went to law school with Simone Missick and Wilson Bethel), they bend the backstory about Missick and Bethel knowing each other as kids. Or they read more
Train to Busan (2016, Yeon Sang-ho)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 17, 2020
The middle of Train to Busan is excellent. The first act is iffy, the ending is forced, but the middle is where the film excels. It’s where director Yeon just gets to do action, not getting slowed down with the humanity of it all (which he’s uneven on), and just executes these breathtaking action read more
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019, Tim Miller)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 16, 2020
Terminator: Dark Fate is the fourth irrelevant Terminator 2 sequel. It’s not the worst of them, it’s not the best of them. But the poor rights owners just can’t seem to figure out how to franchise and Arnold Schwarzenegger just can’t say no. If there’s a Terminator 7 in a couple years… Arnold read more
Hunters (2020) s01e06 – (Ruth 1:16)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 15, 2020
This episode opens with what seems like a dream sequence for Tiffany Boone, who outside getting to have a giant afro and an occasionally acknowledged daughter, doesn’t have a character. Not really. She gets home from her shootout with the rest of the “Hunters,” covered in blood (not hers), and read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e07 – Mr. Parker’s Cul-De-Sac
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 15, 2020
Mr. Parker’s Cul-De-Sac is an exemplar of “Legends of Tomorrow.” Writers Keto Shimizu and James Eagan provide a great script—just the right amount of subplots, just the right pace—and the cast is outstanding. The episode opens on a red herring to get things moving. In the Wild West, Adam Tsekhman read more
Jurassic World (2015, Colin Trevorrow)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 14, 2020
If I had to describe a feature of Jurassic World as saddest… I might find myself hard-pressed. There aren’t a lot of possibilities—worst, dumbest, cheapest, silliest, probably some others… but saddest is something different. When the film takes a pointless detour through the original visitor read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e08 – Broken Pieces
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 13, 2020
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon is writing solo again this episode and, I mean, there are some bad scenes but the cringe factor is gone. Of course “Picard” is going to have poorly written and acted scenes, what else would it have; there’s no surprise in them anymore. This episode has Picard read more
The Punisher Presents Barracuda (2007)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 13, 2020
Barracuda is one of Garth Ennis’s… what shall we call them… NC-17 action comedy limited series. He’s got a bunch of them at Vertigo, a few a handful of other places. The difference with Barracuda is it’s for Marvel (it’s the only Punisher MAX spin-off, which is something since Ennis loved read more
48 Hrs. (1982, Walter Hill)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 12, 2020
About seventy minutes into 48 Hrs., Nick Nolte apologizes to Eddie Murphy for the racial slurs he’s been calling him since Murphy showed up in the movie. Nolte’s just doing his job, he explains, “keeping him down,” which is an unintentionally honest moment about cops and Black men. Murphy nods read more
Hunters (2020) s01e05 – At Night, All Birds are Black
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 11, 2020
I feel like “Hunters” needs a real disclaimer to explain while the show itself is fictional, the U.S. government really did import a bunch of Nazis to the United States and turned them into citizens and paid to keep them quiet and happy and fat just so we could beat the Russians to the moon or what read more
A Terrible Night (1896, Georges Méliès)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 11, 2020
A Terrible Night had me exclaiming, “Holy shit,” when the giant bug appeared. Or when it started moving. I’m not sure if it’s always in the shot. I’m resisting the urge to go and check. The short is short—a minute—and one of director Méliès single shot films. He appears in the film as read more
Hunters (2020) s01e03 – While Visions Of Safta Danced In His Head
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 10, 2020
Maybe it’s just knowing Logan Lerman started in a YA franchise attempt (he was Percy Jackson) or because he’s got the dagger in his hand during the awesome opening titles every episode, but I wasn’t expecting him to have a whole “I feel super-guilty about killing these Nazis who are trying to read more
Hunters (2020) s01e04 – The Pious Thieves
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 10, 2020
The best part of this episode is Dylan Baker getting pissed off Lena Olin is cutting him out of the Nazi plans and scheming to get back into them. Baker’s stunt-casting, more so than even Pacino (who, playing a Jewish Holocaust survivor in old age is the heaviest lifting Pacino’s had to do in a read more
Hunters (2020) s01e02 – The Mourner’s Kaddish
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 9, 2020
The important series story development this episode is it turns out Logan Lerman isn’t okay with torturing and killing Nazis hiding in the United States. He’s still the same softie as in the first episode when he thought Darth Vader probably wasn’t all evil and didn’t, you know, kill a bunch read more
The Witch: Subversion (2018, Park Hoon-jung)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 9, 2020
About halfway through The Witch: Subversion, I wondered why they’d opened with a flashback showing presumably chid witch Kim Ha-na escaping from her government “doctors.” The prologue introduces evil scientist lady Jo Min-soo and her chief fixer Park Hee-soon, it introduces the secret castle-like read more