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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
Dead End (1937, William Wyler)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 8, 2020
If you tilt to just the right angle, for a while you can see Dead End as the tale of three people from a poor neighborhood and how life has worked out for them as they got closer to their thirties. Humphrey Bogart grew from a “not too bad” young punk to a public enemy number one, infamous for killi read more
Batman: Dead End (2003, Sandy Collora)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 7, 2020
Batman: Dead End goes far in validating the idea of cosplay as successful costuming for film—well, not Andrew Koenig’s Joker—but definitely the Batman outfit. Costume designer Michael MacFarlane, cinematographer Vincent E. Toto, and director Collora do figure out a way to do a “comics accurate” read more
Hunters (2020) s01e01 – In the Belly of the Whale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 7, 2020
“Hunters” fully realizes the potential of a popular entertainment revenge action-drama. There’s the Marathon Man-esque scene—not a Nazi dentist scene but a Nazi toy shop owner (a perfect Kenneth Tigar; “Hunters” seems like it’s going to be way too good at casting its Nazis)—but it ends read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e07 – Nepenthe
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 6, 2020
This episode of “Picard” has a Vulcan in cool sunglasses, who non-consensually mind melds, which used to be a thing, and talks about 300 gigabytes of data (hashtag details), a Romulan in a Battlefield Earth fighter jet, discount Han Solo sucking on a cigar, a 23rd century Alexa, the Black woman read more
Sphere (1998, Barry Levinson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 6, 2020
Sphere is not a justifiable use of eighty million dollars. I don’t think you could justify spending a dollar to rent a copy to watch, much less eighty million of them to make the thing. The big problem is the script. Whatever Kurt Wimmer (ominously credited with “adaptation”), Stephen Hauser, read more
We’re With the Army Now (1943, Jean Negulesco)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 5, 2020
We’re With the Army Now is somewhat inexplicably a rarity. It’s a Warner Bros. “training short” for the Army (during World War II) but in the public domain. It’s got no IMDb entry, no Google results outside a citation from Doug McClelland’s Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces book… read more
Card Party (1896, Georges Méliès)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 4, 2020
Card Party runs a minute. Three guys sitting outside at a table, drinking wine, playing cards. It’s a family affair for director Méliès (who’s one of the card players), with his brother playing another of them. There aren’t any credits and apparently the third player’s identity is lost to read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e06 – The Impossible Box
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 3, 2020
This episode… really doesn’t impress. It ought to impress because it finally gets things moving—Picard (Patrick Stewart) heads to the Borg Cube to rescue Soji (Isa Briones). Briones is an android but doesn’t know it. Her lover, Harry Treadaway, knows she’s an android and wants to kill her read more
Stryker’s War (1980, Josh Becker)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 3, 2020
Stryker’s War runs just over forty-five minutes. The first fifteen to twenty minutes are all about how twenty-two year-old lead Bruce Campbell can both do anything and make everything feel legit. The film opens in Vietnam (as shot in East Michigan) with Campbell taking his squad out on a mission af read more
Save Me (2011, Lena Waithe)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 2, 2020
Save Me is the story of a kid (Jaheem Toombs) whose house burned down and the rest of his family died and he goes to ask the man who saved him (Sam Bologna) why he saved him and the man doesn’t tell him so the kid lies about it to his new best friend. There are some ostensible layers to it—Toombs’s read more
Pierre Paolo (1998, Rachel Amodeo)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 1, 2020
Pierre Paolo is a five minute short, set in a seaside Italian town. It opens with a simple, handwritten title card, then there’s a montage of the town set to classical music. The action rests on an old woman (Filomena Paletta) sitting on some stairs. Text appears across the bottom of the frame, exp read more
Becker (1998) s01e16 – Limits & Boundaries
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 29, 2020
Limits & Boundaries refers to Ted Danson’s uninformed parenting philosophies. The episode opens with him yelling at a woman in the diner (Victoria Kelleher), who is sitting reading a book while her baby cries. Now, she’s not doing anything to get the baby to be quiet, which either is a nineties read more
Weird Melvin (1995) #6
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 28, 2020
Weird Melvin #6 gives the series a conclusion, but definitely not the one I’d been hoping for. The story title is something like part five, so—for whatever publishing reason—last issue’s fill-ins were really fill-ins. This issue opens with Melvin and the Kid headed back to base with some stolen read more
Cronos (1993, Guillermo del Toro), the U.S. theatrical version
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 28, 2020
Cronos opens with an English-narrated prologue about a sixteenth century alchemist making a device to prolong his life. The uncredited narrator is wanting, the music isn’t good—it doesn’t seem like the rest of Javier Álvarez’s score, but who knows (well, the distributor would); it’s a change read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e06 – Mortal Khanbat
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 27, 2020
Not sure why Dominic Purcell isn’t in the episode save a scene—he’s still off nursing catching feelings for an ex-girlfriend with lots of beer–but Caity Lotz uses her time off camera to direct this episode. She’s pretty damn good. The episode’s split between a series of John Woo homages read more
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights (2019)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 27, 2020
There are a sea of faces in Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists. Sea of faces, sea of names, which is the point. The book is a history of women ignored in history books, though not always. Writer Mikki Kendall doesn’t avoid the awkward subjects, like Susan B. Anthony’s White supremacy or the sign read more