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Late night writing, or: Roman DeBeers wasn’t always 100% wrong, you know
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 2, 2020
I would rather exhaustedly write this blog post than watch another episode of “Becker.” I still swear it gets good, but it’s rather rough going. Ken Levine wrote about it and Ken Levine’s solid on his sitcoms. Old time blog reading. I think a lot about The News Blog, which was a thing back in read more
Evil (2019) s01e13 – Book 27
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 2, 2020
Thank you, “Evil,” for forcing me to realize I don’t know how to spell Baphomet. Oh, wait, I do know how to spell Baphomet. Apple just doesn’t know how to spell Baphomet. Seems like something for the Satanic Temple to investigate, whether or not Apple has deity spellings for other religions. read more
Grantchester (2014) s05e04
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 1, 2020
“Grantchester” is definitely not going to be one of those shows where they take out a lead character, drop in a replacement and it’s about the same. The show has been reminding Tom Brittney isn’t just a brunette version of departed ginger(?) James Norton, but it triples down throughout this read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e02 – Maps and Legends
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 1, 2020
I was expecting a lot of fan service this episode and it definitely did not provide. But instead of doing fan service—outside confirming Riker, Work, and LaForge are all still alive—this episode just kills forty-five minutes or so until the next one. “Picard” has a ten episode season and Maps read more
Grumpy Old Men (1993, Donald Petrie)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 31, 2020
If Grumpy Old Men weren’t so scared of its ribald humor—giving almost all of it to dirty oldest man Burgess Meredith, who’s just there to make sex jokes and serves no other purpose in the film—you could probably just as well call it Horny Old Men. At least in Jack Lemmon’s case. He hasn’t read more
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974, John Hough)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 30, 2020
I’m not sure how Dirty Mary Crazy Larry played on its original release—like, did audiences actually sympathize with “leads” Peter Fonda and Susan George—but whatever shine time has scrubbed off it has left something of an endurance test. Fonda and Adam Roarke (who’s more the protagonist read more
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019, Chad Stahelski)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 29, 2020
Even with conservative expectations, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum disappoints. Even with adjusted expectations as the film progresses; the first act seems like it’s going to be a two hour real-time action extravaganza with lead Keanu Reeves fighting his way through seventies and eighties read more
Come on! Please clap! or: Would you like to see my vacation slides 2020
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 28, 2020
I’ve always liked to do movie re-edits. When I was a teenager, I’d make a combined Evil Dead/Army of Darkness or I’d cut the end off a movie if I didn’t like who died. On VHS to another. Discovered the video titling machine in the TV studio at my high school, made some more “professional” read more
The Battle of Jangsari (2019, Kwak Kyung-taek and Kim Tae-hoon)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 27, 2020
I’m curious enough about The Battle of Jangsari I think I’m going to read War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent by Marguerite Higgins, which might have some information about the actual battle of Jangsa-ri because there’s nothing on the Google not about the movie. The big details read more
Grantchester (2014) s05e03
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 27, 2020
Lots ends up happening this issue, even as the episode starts with Tom Brittney getting returned mail from his estranged mother. In fact, there’s going to be something for everyone this episode—except Leonard (Al Weaver); Leonard is background. Will (Brittney) doesn’t just have a murder case—a read more
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, Chad Stahelski)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 26, 2020
If—and it's a big if—there's anything interesting about John Wick: Chapter Two as a sequel, it's how poorly the original filmmakers execute the sequel. It feels like a contractually obligated affair, only with the original principals returning. Well, save David Leitch who produced the read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e01 – Remembrance
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 25, 2020
The most peculiar thing about “Picard” is how much it plays like a sequel to Star Trek: Nemesis. Not because Tom Hardy guests as Patrick Stewart’s unlikely Romulan clone or… wait, what else happened in that movie? Oh, yeah, Troi got mind raped… again. No Troi (Marina Sirtis) in this episode, read more
John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 25, 2020
John Wick is all right. It feels like if it’d been made in the nineties, it’d have been revolutionary. Instead, it uses all the revolutionary and not revolutionary film techniques since the nineties to make the ultimate in mainstream heavy metal neo-pulp, with a twist of seventies exploitation for read more
Bad Dreams (1988, Andrew Fleming)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 24, 2020
At the end of Bad Dreams, as GNR’s Sweet Child of Mine starts up over the end credits… I thought, at least director (and co-writer) Fleming has good taste in music. Turns out he didn’t want the song and a studio exec with a better ear put it in the film. Bummer. It would’ve been nice to be able read more
The Punisher (2004) #49, Widowmaker, Part 7 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2020
Bill Reinhold’s back on inks—solo—this issue. It doesn’t have to be Tom Palmer, it could be someone else, but it needs to be someone else because Medina and Reinhold completely botch the finish. Ennis is going for something—something confused, because there have been too many issues in the read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e02 – Meet the Legends
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2020
Good “Legends” is both bad and obvious, and obvious. When the show hits the right notes, it keeps ringing the bell through the end of the episode. Once an episode of “Legends” clicks, it stays in that higher gear. This first post-Crisis episode means there can be all sorts of new changes in read more
All Rise (2019) s01e13 – What the Bailiff Saw
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2020
So it looks like Peter MacNicol is going to be a regular guest star, which is fine. He exudes a lovable, not too problematic old white guy energy as Simone Missick’s new judge pal. He shows up for a single scene, to talk to her about the case she’s got going, then disappears again. I didn’t pay read more
The Punisher (2004) #48, Widowmaker, Part 6 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 22, 2020
Tom Palmer on inks this issue—he also did some of the previous issue’s inks; he makes Medina’s pencils look a lot more pensive. People are thinking, listening, far better than before. Even if maybe Palmer on inks just show off how Medina isn’t the right fit for the material. It’s mostly a read more
Becker (1998) s01e15 – Activate Your Choices
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 21, 2020
David Isaacs wrote this episode, which brings some immediate pluses. The jokes are funnier. Sometimes they’re a lot cheaper, but they’re always funny. And Saverio Guerra’s in the episode. Isaacs doesn’t give him much to do except be hilariously annoying, but it’s basically enough. If only read more
The Punisher (2004) #47, Widowmaker, Part 5 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 21, 2020
It’s not a light issue. There’s barely any Frank; he’s just sitting around and listening to sixth widow Jenny tell him her life story. She was a mafia princess. She got married off to a full-on psychopath who, on a good night, just beat and raped her. The other mob widows knew about it, lied to read more