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The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever (2013, Mark Robertson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 8, 2019
The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever is about a New Jersey amusement park called Action Park, which opened in the late seventies and ran for twenty dangerous years—there were apparently six deaths and countless injuries (enabled by the owner running some kind of insurance scheme). The video has a mi read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e04 – The Crowning of Apes
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 8, 2019
This episode has a different director, Prudence Fitzgerald, and a different writer, Brian Rawlinson, than the first three episodes, which explains a lot of the stylistic differences. Rawlinson being a guy might also explain why Henry (James Maxwell) is cruel in a very different way than he ever has read more
The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever (2013, Mark Robertson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 8, 2019
The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever is about a New Jersey amusement park called Action Park, which opened in the late seventies and ran for twenty dangerous years—there were apparently six deaths and countless injuries (enabled by the owner running some kind of insurance scheme). The video has a mi read more
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) s01e04 – The Crowning of Apes
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 8, 2019
This episode has a different director, Prudence Fitzgerald, and a different writer, Brian Rawlinson, than the first three episodes, which explains a lot of the stylistic differences. Rawlinson being a guy might also explain why Henry (James Maxwell) is cruel in a very different way than he ever has read more
PTSD (2019)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 8, 2019
The best thing about PTSD is creator Guillaume Singlein’s action. He paces it beautifully. The book, when it doesn’t have dialogue but just people doing things… it looks its best. So it makes sense Singlein’s going to be good at the action too. Of course, whether or not PTSD should have read more
Batwoman (2019) s01e01 – Pilot
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 7, 2019
“Batwoman,” at least for the pilot, gets a “Sure, you can maybe get away with this.” It’d be nicer if someone was excited about it. No one on “Batwoman” seems very excited. Except Rachel Skarsten as the villain, Alice (like in Wonderland). Skarsten’s awesome. So good you don’t even read more
Batwoman (2019) s01e01 – Pilot
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 7, 2019
“Batwoman,” at least for the pilot, gets a “Sure, you can maybe get away with this.” It’d be nicer if someone was excited about it. No one on “Batwoman” seems very excited. Except Rachel Skarsten as the villain, Alice (like in Wonderland). Skarsten’s awesome. So good you don’t even read more
The Bells of Cockaigne (1953, James Sheldon)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 6, 2019
The Bells at Cockaigne plays it very safe. It’s an inspirational “play for television” about lovable old Irishman in the U.S. Gene Lockhart daydreaming about winning an apparently still legal in 1953 numbers racket the newspapers run. Lockhart’s going to use the money to go home to Ireland and read more
The Bells of Cockaigne (1953, James Sheldon)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 6, 2019
The Bells at Cockaigne plays it very safe. It’s an inspirational “play for television” about lovable old Irishman in the U.S. Gene Lockhart daydreaming about winning an apparently still legal in 1953 numbers racket the newspapers run. Lockhart’s going to use the money to go home to Ireland and read more
The Bells of Cockaigne (1953, James Sheldon)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 6, 2019
The Bells at Cockaigne plays it very safe. It’s an inspirational “play for television” about lovable old Irishman in the U.S. Gene Lockhart daydreaming about winning an apparently still legal in 1953 numbers racket the newspapers run. Lockhart’s going to use the money to go home to Ireland and read more
Becker (1998) s01e09 – Choose Me
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 6, 2019
It hadn’t occurred to me some of “Becker”’s problem so far might have been direction. I rarely think about sitcom (the three-camera style) direction. They’re just going through the same kinds of shots over and over. But then again, maybe some of the directors are infinitely better with the read more
Becker (1998) s01e09 – Choose Me
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 6, 2019
It hadn’t occurred to me some of “Becker”’s problem so far might have been direction. I rarely think about sitcom (the three-camera style) direction. They’re just going through the same kinds of shots over and over. But then again, maybe some of the directors are infinitely better with the read more
The Bells of Cockaigne (1953, James Sheldon)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 6, 2019
The Bells at Cockaigne plays it very safe. It’s an inspirational “play for television” about lovable old Irishman in the U.S. Gene Lockhart daydreaming about winning an apparently still legal in 1953 numbers racket the newspapers run. Lockhart’s going to use the money to go home to Ireland and read more
Becker (1998) s01e08 – Physician, Heal Thyself
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 5, 2019
It’s distressing how little writer Ian Gurvitz handles Alex Désert’s Jake character. Last credited episode he didn’t do anything with except make blind jokes. This time Désert gets more to do, but barely—we see his apartment, partially, for the first time—and it’s not funny. And I think read more
Becker (1998) s01e08 – Physician, Heal Thyself
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 5, 2019
It’s distressing how little writer Ian Gurvitz handles Alex Désert’s Jake character. Last credited episode he didn’t do anything with except make blind jokes. This time Désert gets more to do, but barely—we see his apartment, partially, for the first time—and it’s not funny. And I think read more
Mondays in the Sun (2002, Fernando León de Aranoa)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 4, 2019
At some point, around the halfway point but maybe a little earlier, Mondays in the Sun becomes an endurance spectacle—can director de Aranoa (who co-wrote with Ignacio del Moral) actually keep the film lyrical. There are softly epical arcs in the film, but they get resolved gradually (or not at all read more
Mondays in the Sun (2002, Fernando León de Aranoa)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 4, 2019
At some point, around the halfway point but maybe a little earlier, Mondays in the Sun becomes an endurance spectacle—can director de Aranoa (who co-wrote with Ignacio del Moral) actually keep the film lyrical. There are softly epical arcs in the film, but they get resolved gradually (or not at all read more
Mondays in the Sun (2002, Fernando León de Aranoa)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 4, 2019
At some point, around the halfway point but maybe a little earlier, Mondays in the Sun becomes an endurance spectacle—can director de Aranoa (who co-wrote with Ignacio del Moral) actually keep the film lyrical. There are softly epical arcs in the film, but they get resolved gradually (or not at all read more
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) s02e05 – Saints of Imperfection
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 4, 2019
They really did forgot Saru was dying last episode, didn’t they? Like, he’s a-okay for his first scene here, which is seemingly moments after the end of last episode. See, Tilly (Mary Wiseman) has been sucked into the fungus dimension and Sonequa Martin-Green is really sad so she has a voiceover read more
Mondays in the Sun (2002, Fernando León de Aranoa)
The Stop Button Posted by on Oct 4, 2019
At some point, around the halfway point but maybe a little earlier, Mondays in the Sun becomes an endurance spectacle—can director de Aranoa (who co-wrote with Ignacio del Moral) actually keep the film lyrical. There are softly epical arcs in the film, but they get resolved gradually (or not at all read more