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Catch Me If You Can (2002, Steven Spielberg)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 18, 2020
Catch Me If You Can is a spectacular showcase for Leonardo DiCaprio. Unfortunately, the rest of the film doesn’t exactly rise up to meet him, not the filmmaking, not the writing, not his costars. With the exception of co-lead Tom Hanks, who’s a whole other thing, the direction, the writing, the read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s06e01 – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 17, 2020
Given how much work these Arrowverse crossover events make for the show’s creative teams—just imagine if they had to bother with good writing, better direction (though this episode isn’t too bad), and good guest stars—you’d think they wouldn’t have wasted twenty-percent of Crisis on Infinite read more
The Punisher (2004) #46, Widowmaker, Part 4 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 17, 2020
Ennis brings all the threads together this issue. Frank, the widows, the mystery woman, the cop. The cliffhanger resolve has Frank taking one to the chest. The issue opens with Frank thinking about how unlikely the house where the damsel widow has brought him seems like a front for a trafficking op read more
The Princess Comes Across (1936, William K. Howard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 16, 2020
The Princess Comes Across is an uneven mix of comedy and mystery. Too much mystery, too little comedy, noticeable lack of romance. The romance is an awkward afterthought in Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin, Don Hartman, and Frank Butler’s script (four screenwriters is probably too much even in 1936; read more
Arrow (2012) s08e08 – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 16, 2020
So. Confession time. During the harder-than-normal sci-fi opening to part the fourth of Crisis on Infinite Earths, I thought the crossover might have a chance. I thought if they split the first three into the one arc, then the second two into another… I thought it might work. For a few seconds in read more
The Punisher (2004) #45, Widowmaker, Part 3 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 16, 2020
Lots of action this issue. Frank’s taking out of a convoy of mob cars—the first page has Medina and Reinhold doing photo-reference on James Gandolfini but the character never figures in later so it’s not The Punisher vs. The Sopranos—but there’s a catch. The widows have put their decoy damsel read more
Canceled (2019, Jimmy Caputo)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 15, 2020
Canceled has a great sense of humor. It ends on a knowing smile but then the end credits have a few knowing big laughs. It’s about five minutes of action, real-time, as two friends (Laura Sacchetti and Maria Scenna) try to console a third (Katrina Rossi) over the loss of her favorite TV show. The read more
The Punisher (2004) #44, Widowmaker, Part 2 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 14, 2020
Ennis opens the issue with Frank killing a couple child pornographers. It’s a few pages, with Frank considering his options considering the kids (and victims) are at home, as well as how much he wants to watch the perpetrators suffer. The growing itch he didn’t realize he had the desire to scratch read more
Grantchester (2014) s05e01
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 13, 2020
It’s nice to have “Grantchester” back, especially since Robson Green doesn’t appear to have a complete jackass arc for this season. Though it’s arguably too soon to tell and he does bring in his mother-in-law (Paula Wilcox, I think) without consulting wife Kacey Ainsworth to help out around read more
The Punisher (2004) #43, Widowmaker, Part 1 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 13, 2020
There’s barely any Frank in this issue. He opens it—gets the first two pages, then writer Garth Ennis shifts the action entirely to the villains. Frank’s been up against the mob, he’s been up against the Russians, he’s been up against big business, but now he’s up against a group of women read more
Roxanne (1987, Fred Schepisi)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 12, 2020
Roxanne is a charming romantic comedy. Wait, I think it might need an additional qualifier—it’s a charming romantic situational comedy. I’m not one to sit around and debate stakes with romantic comedies, but even for a romantic comedy… Roxanne’s got some low stakes. Maybe because of how closely read more
Watchmen (2019) s01e09 – See How They Fly
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 11, 2020
I’ve been trying to gin up enthusiasm to write about this “Watchmen” finale all day. Though, if I think hard enough, I’m sure I’ll be able to come up with a compliment. Something like… thanks to “Watchmen: The Series,” Robert Wisdom’s most… unappreciative recent casting is no longer read more
Evil (2019) s01e11 – Room 320
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 11, 2020
I resent how affecting this episode of “Evil” gets because it doesn’t deserve to be. The stuff about Katja Herbers and Aasif Mandvi discovering how the guy who attacked Mike Colter before hiatus is the same guy who posed as a creepy little girl in AR to stalk Herbers’s kid early on in the series… read more
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 10, 2020
During To Kill a Mockingbird’s exceptional opening titles, I wondered how it was possible the film was going to look so amazing yet had no reputation for being some exquisitely, precisely directed piece of cinema. Then up came Stephen Frankfurt’s credit for title design, which kind of dulled my read more
Archie Gets a Job! (1977)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 10, 2020
Are Christian comics better or worse since Archie Gets a Job! (from 1977)? The comic promotes a combination of functional illiteracy and profound ignorance, not to mention encouraging teasing of people’s appearances, particularly fat-shaming. Just like Jesus, no doubt. The comic’s all about Archie read more
That mockingbird don’t sing, or: Blaming the cat for the lack of subtitle
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 10, 2020
This post is a race. Can I write a Summing Up post in the time it takes me to cook dinner. I was going to have a To Kill a Mockingbird post up tonight but then we watched two “Schitt’s Creek” instead of one (finishing the third season, which has that wonderfully nice season finale; I wonder when read more
All Rise (2019) s01e12 – What the Constitution Greens to Me
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 9, 2020
This episode of “All Rise”—the first after hiatus—seems like a return to form. At least as much form as “All Rise” has ever had; in terms of guest stars, it means the pilot. “All Rise”’s guest star caliber has dropped since then. Not anymore. This episode doesn’t just have Peter read more
Archie’s Parables (1973)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 8, 2020
Archie’s Parables is Christian comics propaganda from the 1970s and is a great example of why it never would’ve occurred to me to read an Archie comic before, what, 2010 or something. But Parables, courtesy Spire Christian Comics and creator Al Hartley. Though using the word “creator” for Hartley read more
Echoes of You (2018, Henry Quilici)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 7, 2020
About halfway through, Echoes of You gets after-school special cringy, which seems like it’s too bad because at least before—despite being this Dickensian tale of classical pianist employed as a theatre custodian (Laurence Fuller) who befriends the street urchin living out back (Zakary Risinger) read more
Doctor Gorpon (1991) #3
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 7, 2020
So last issue was a surprise as far as creator Marc Hansen’s plotting for Doctor Gorpon goes and this issue is no different. The issue opens having to resolve three cliffhangers—all of the monsters Gorpon has captured over the years has gelled into sentient ooze bent on destroying him, his former read more