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Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e04 – Absolute Candor
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 14, 2020
Let’s get the elephant out of the way: show co-creator, episode single credited writer, and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon. He’s really, really, really bad at writing dialogue. At some point in this episode, I realized Akiva Goldsman—the profoundly hacky screenwriter of Batman read more
The Ref (1994, Ted Demme)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 14, 2020
Every once in a while, The Ref lets you forget it’s just a comedy vehicle for stand-up comic Denis Leary and so doesn’t need to actually be a good drama and just lets you enjoy the acting. Demme’s direction is simultaneously detached, thoughtful, and sincere. He and editor Jeffrey Wolf craft these read more
Interrogation (2020) s01e07 – Det. Carol Young & Det. Brian Chen vs Melanie Pruitt 2005
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 13, 2020
The year is 2005, so twenty years after the first episode—1983—and, therefore, Kyle Gallner playing closer to his actual age. It doesn’t really help with his performance. With his shaved head and serious prisoner eyeglasses and seventies porn ‘stache, every once in a while—when he’s not read more
Weird Melvin (1995) #3
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 13, 2020
Hansen introduces a whole new character—or two, actually—but one with history with Weird Melvin; his sidekick, reformed monster Shag. Shag hangs out in Weird Melvin’s abandoned headquarters. Seems like he’s been there a while… but he’s finally ready to walk out. But Shag doesn’t come into read more
Weird Melvin (1995) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 12, 2020
Weird Melvin is a gloriously weird comic. Creator Marc Hansen brings the weird to the art—not just the muscle-bound grotesques (Melvin and, later, a regular human) but also Melvin’s cyclops nemesis, Sy Cyclops. The comic starts from Sy’s perspective, as he nitrous ups his car and hits Weird Melvin read more
Interrogation (2020) s01e06 – Henry Fisher vs Eric Fisher 1992
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 12, 2020
The reason you can watch “Interrogation” in any order you want—according to the opening titles—is because cold case detectives don’t pick at old cases linearly. So, by watching “Interrogation,” you’re a cold case detective too! Eye-roll emoji. This episode doesn’t feature any recorded read more
Weird Melvin (1995) #2
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 12, 2020
Leave it to Hansen to make it weirder. The issue starts with a bookend—Melvin’s still unnamed comic fan sidekick is berating Weird Melvin for not stopped Monster Fanboy (who owns every comic every published and hordes them in an underground lair and is, actually, a monster when it comes to collecti read more
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (2019)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 11, 2020
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a Young Adult graphic novel reimagining of Harley Quinn, set in high school, with Harley making friends and enemies while living with a delightfully supportive group of drag queens, fighting gentrification and 1% incels. It’s also almost two hundred pages of Steve Pu read more
Interrogation (2020) s01e01 – Det. Dave Russell vs Eric Fisher 1983
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 11, 2020
Poor Kyle Gallner. Thirty-four years old and still playing a seventeen year-old, which—at one point—would’ve been some kind of record (or near one). But playing half his age is nothing compared to Gallner’s wig. It’s 1983 L.A. and Gallner’s got a full… what would it be called, metalhead? read more
Grantchester (2014) s05e05
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 10, 2020
It’s an exceedingly unpleasant hour of “Grantchester,” full of revelations and character developments, some to the point where it’s hard to imagine what next week’s episode is going to bring. Will (Tom Brittney) ends the episode in a rather dark place, which is to be expected given how things read more
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018, Susanna Fogel)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 10, 2020
The Spy Who Dumped Me has, rather unfortunately, a punny title. It’s an accurate title—the film’s about spy Justin Theroux dumping his civilian and not aware he’s a spy girlfriend Mila Kunis—but it doesn’t capture the mood of the film. No doubt, it’s a hard one to title—because even read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e03 – Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 10, 2020
It’s a strong episode. Like, really strong; great pacing too. It starts with Constantine (Matt Ryan), who teleported to Hell at the end of last episode, getting to Hell and having a chat with lost soul turned season villain Olivia Swann. It’s a welcome scene not so much for the content—Swann is read more
Atomic Blonde (2017, David Leitch)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 9, 2020
Far more often than not, Atomic Blonde is not more than it is. Atomic Blonde is not a “realistic” late eighties spy thriller à la Graham Greene or even John le Carré (see, I can do nineties “New Yorker” levels of extra too). It’s not a James Bond movie with a female lead (Charlize Theron). read more
The Night Court Theme Fits All #4: The Witcher
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 8, 2020
Joey Batey really does belong in the eighties as a sitcom sidekick, doesn’t he? Opening credits for the Netflix series, “The Witcher”, done “Night Court”-style read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e03 – The End is the Beginning
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 8, 2020
This episode ends where the second episode should’ve ended, with the Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme (i.e. “The Next Generation” theme) and a starship going into a very boring warp. It took Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his band of sidekicks all episode to get into space; apparen read more
Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg), the theatrical version
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 7, 2020
The first act of Duel ought to be enough to carry it. Spielberg’s direction, Frank Morriss’s editing, even Jack A. Marta’s workman photography—it’s spellbinding. It even gets through lead Dennis Weaver calling home to fight with his wife and revealing to the audience he’s a wuss. See, last read more
All Rise (2019) s01e14 – Bye Bye Bernie
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 6, 2020
This episode is series story editor Mellori Velasquez’s first episode as the credited writer. And, wow, either she’s really and at the dialogue or they went exceptionally cheap on the supporting cast. For example, Chelsea Rendon’s murder trial defendant. There’s no reason Rendon should be bad read more
Grumpier Old Men (1995, Howard Deutch)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 5, 2020
The first half of Grumpier Old Men is such an improvement over the original, it could be a paragon of sequels. Director Deutch knows how to showcase the actors amid all the physical comedy. There’s a lot of physical comedy and sight gags in Grumpier. There’s Walter Matthau doing the Saturday Night read more
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019, Richard Phelan and Will Becher)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 4, 2020
Farmageddon has so many sci-fi TV and movie references it’s hard to keep track. The whole thing feels like an homage to E.T. as far as the story—an alien (“voiced” by Amalia Vitale; voicing means making noises in Farmageddon, there’s no dialogue) gets stranded on Earth and makes friends with read more
Twilight (1998, Robert Benton)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 3, 2020
Unfortunate bit of trivia to start us off—Twilight is supposed to be called The Magic Hour, but just around the time of release, Magic Johnson’s high profile (and quickly cancelled) TV show had the same title and they changed the movie’s title. Titles are both important and not. They definitely read more