The Punisher #19, Up is Down and Black is White, Part 1 (of 6)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 4, 2019
The issue opens with Nicky Cavella, returning from the first story arc—it’s hard to believe Up is Down and Black is White is only the fourth arc in Punisher MAX—at the Castle family headstone. He’s digging up the bodies, talking to a henchman with a camcorder. Whatever he’s got planned, it’s read more
The Great Gatsby (1949, Elliot Nugent) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 3, 2019
The Great Gatsby can get away with a lot thanks to lead Alan Ladd, much of it related to the adaptation. Gatsby, the film, does open with “narrator” Macdonald Carey—set in the present, with Carey reminiscing on the grand old Jazz Age. Of course, the Jazz Age looks a little different in Carey’s read more
The Great Gatsby (1949, Elliot Nugent) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 3, 2019
The Great Gatsby can get away with a lot thanks to lead Alan Ladd, much of it related to the adaptation. Gatsby, the film, does open with “narrator” Macdonald Carey—set in the present, with Carey reminiscing on the grand old Jazz Age. Of course, the Jazz Age looks a little different in Carey’s read more
The Great Gatsby (1949, Elliot Nugent) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 3, 2019
The Great Gatsby can get away with a lot thanks to lead Alan Ladd, much of it related to the adaptation. Gatsby, the film, does open with “narrator” Macdonald Carey—set in the present, with Carey reminiscing on the grand old Jazz Age. Of course, the Jazz Age looks a little different in Carey’s read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e07 – Episode 7 (1)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 3, 2019
I mean, it’s well-acted but this episode’s pretty blah for a “Mindhunter.” Nothing happens. We get more hints at character development for Jonathan Groff and Anna Torv but no actual character development. Meanwhile Holt McCallany spends the episode getting later and later from home to work and read more
The Great Gatsby (1949, Elliot Nugent) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 3, 2019
The Great Gatsby can get away with a lot thanks to lead Alan Ladd, much of it related to the adaptation. Gatsby, the film, does open with “narrator” Macdonald Carey—set in the present, with Carey reminiscing on the grand old Jazz Age. Of course, the Jazz Age looks a little different in Carey’s read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e07 – Episode 7 (2)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 3, 2019
I mean, it’s well-acted but this episode’s pretty blah for a “Mindhunter.” Nothing happens. We get more hints at character development for Jonathan Groff and Anna Torv but no actual character development. Meanwhile Holt McCallany spends the episode getting later and later from home to work and read more
The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 2, 2019
It’s immaterial to the film overall but I want to talk about how Welles compensates for projection composites looking like projection composites. He changes up his focus, sometimes focusing on the person in the foreground, sometimes not. Is it intentional? Is he really trying to compensate? Well, read more
The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 2, 2019
It’s immaterial to the film overall but I want to talk about how Welles compensates for projection composites looking like projection composites. He changes up his focus, sometimes focusing on the person in the foreground, sometimes not. Is it intentional? Is he really trying to compensate? Well, read more
The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 2, 2019
It’s immaterial to the film overall but I want to talk about how Welles compensates for projection composites looking like projection composites. He changes up his focus, sometimes focusing on the person in the foreground, sometimes not. Is it intentional? Is he really trying to compensate? Well, read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e06 – Episode 6 (1)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 2, 2019
It’s back to Atlanta again for sure this time. And almost some Jonathan Groff stuff… but also some “is this ‘Mindhunter’ or a slasher movie prologue” stuff with Holt McCallany's home life. There's also another interview for Anna Torv and Joe Tuttle, with Torv once again having read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e06 – Episode 6 (2)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 2, 2019
It’s back to Atlanta again for sure this time. And almost some Jonathan Groff stuff… but also some “is this ‘Mindhunter’ or a slasher movie prologue” stuff with Holt McCallany's home life. There's also another interview for Anna Torv and Joe Tuttle, with Torv once again having read more
The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 2, 2019
It’s immaterial to the film overall but I want to talk about how Welles compensates for projection composites looking like projection composites. He changes up his focus, sometimes focusing on the person in the foreground, sometimes not. Is it intentional? Is he really trying to compensate? Well, read more
The Big Red One (1980, Samuel Fuller) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 1, 2019
The Big Red One is a fairly even split between action and conversation. The film tracks a single squad as they start fighting in North Africa, follow the war into the Mediterranean, participate in D-Day, then go east. The film skips to each event. There’s usually some epilogue to the event, somethi read more
The Big Red One (1980, Samuel Fuller) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 1, 2019
The Big Red One is a fairly even split between action and conversation. The film tracks a single squad as they start fighting in North Africa, follow the war into the Mediterranean, participate in D-Day, then go east. The film skips to each event. There’s usually some epilogue to the event, somethi read more
The Big Red One (1980, Samuel Fuller) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 1, 2019
The Big Red One is a fairly even split between action and conversation. The film tracks a single squad as they start fighting in North Africa, follow the war into the Mediterranean, participate in D-Day, then go east. The film skips to each event. There’s usually some epilogue to the event, somethi read more
The Big Red One (1980, Samuel Fuller) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 1, 2019
The Big Red One is a fairly even split between action and conversation. The film tracks a single squad as they start fighting in North Africa, follow the war into the Mediterranean, participate in D-Day, then go east. The film skips to each event. There’s usually some epilogue to the event, somethi read more
Waitress (2007, Adrienne Shelly) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 31, 2019
For most of its runtime, Waitress is a character study. Writer and director Shelly does give the film an epical arc, which doesn’t get fully revealed until the third act (and, arguably, epilogue), but most of the film is spent watching Keri Russell, her character’s actions, reactions, inactions, read more
Waitress (2007, Adrienne Shelly) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 31, 2019
For most of its runtime, Waitress is a character study. Writer and director Shelly does give the film an epical arc, which doesn’t get fully revealed until the third act (and, arguably, epilogue), but most of the film is spent watching Keri Russell, her character’s actions, reactions, inactions, read more
Waitress (2007, Adrienne Shelly) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 31, 2019
For most of its runtime, Waitress is a character study. Writer and director Shelly does give the film an epical arc, which doesn’t get fully revealed until the third act (and, arguably, epilogue), but most of the film is spent watching Keri Russell, her character’s actions, reactions, inactions, read more