Waitress (2007, Adrienne Shelly) (4)
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
Mindhunter (2017) s02e05 – Episode 5 (1)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 30, 2019
Not only does this episode bring back Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton who deserves all the Emmys) from Season One, who we haven’t seen since he gave Jonathan Groff a hug and sent Groff into a panic attack… it also brings in “Mindhunter”’s Charles Manson, played by Damon Herriman (who also plays read more
Infinity 8: Volume Four: Symbolic Guerilla
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 30, 2019
It’s been a while since I read any Infinity 8, but it’s the perfect series to return to after a break since each arc is a different take on the same thing. Literally. Each arc has a different (far future) space agent who has a limited time to investigate why an intergalactic graveyard the size of read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e05 – Episode 5 (2)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 30, 2019
Not only does this episode bring back Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton who deserves all the Emmys) from Season One, who we haven’t seen since he gave Jonathan Groff a hug and sent Groff into a panic attack… it also brings in “Mindhunter”’s Charles Manson, played by Damon Herriman (who also plays read more
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 29, 2019
Per 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown, those twenty-four hours go from sad to happy. Well, wait; they actually go from narrating man in the shadows, face in said shadows, only the brim of his fedora visible—because l’inconnu fantôme wants to tell you all about Beby the clown. Once the short get read more
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 29, 2019
Per 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown, those twenty-four hours go from sad to happy. Well, wait; they actually go from narrating man in the shadows, face in said shadows, only the brim of his fedora visible—because l’inconnu fantôme wants to tell you all about Beby the clown. Once the short get read more
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 29, 2019
Per 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown, those twenty-four hours go from sad to happy. Well, wait; they actually go from narrating man in the shadows, face in said shadows, only the brim of his fedora visible—because l’inconnu fantôme wants to tell you all about Beby the clown. Once the short get read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e04 – Episode 4 (1)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 29, 2019
It’s back to Atlanta for Holden (Jonathan Groff) and Tench (Holt McCallany); there’s been a kidnapping from someone with the same MO as the as yet unnamed Atlanta Child Killer and they’re calling in the FBI. So our leads are going to be in the background until they can prove (or at least convince read more
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 29, 2019
Per 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown, those twenty-four hours go from sad to happy. Well, wait; they actually go from narrating man in the shadows, face in said shadows, only the brim of his fedora visible—because l’inconnu fantôme wants to tell you all about Beby the clown. Once the short get read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e04 – Episode 4 (2)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 29, 2019
It’s back to Atlanta for Holden (Jonathan Groff) and Tench (Holt McCallany); there’s been a kidnapping from someone with the same MO as the as yet unnamed Atlanta Child Killer and they’re calling in the FBI. So our leads are going to be in the background until they can prove (or at least convince read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e03 – Episode 3 (1)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 28, 2019
It’s a little weird to see “Mindhunter” doing race stuff—and this episode does a lot, not just with it turning out Albert Jones’s Black Southern FBI agent gets on better with other Southerners—Black and White—than Jonathan Groff’s preppy White liberal—but also with Groff thinking he’s read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e03 – Episode 3 (2)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 28, 2019
It’s a little weird to see “Mindhunter” doing race stuff—and this episode does a lot, not just with it turning out Albert Jones’s Black Southern FBI agent gets on better with other Southerners—Black and White—than Jonathan Groff’s preppy White liberal—but also with Groff thinking he’s read more
The Mighty Kong (1998, Art Scott) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 27, 2019
The Mighty Kong is fairly awful. It’d be nice to say there’s some kind of charm to it, given it’s an animated, family-targeted, period King Kong adaptation, it’s got Dudley Moore’s final performance, and Jodi Benson’s a lot more professional than the production deserves. But it doesn’t read more
The Mighty Kong (1998, Art Scott) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 27, 2019
The Mighty Kong is fairly awful. It’d be nice to say there’s some kind of charm to it, given it’s an animated, family-targeted, period King Kong adaptation, it’s got Dudley Moore’s final performance, and Jodi Benson’s a lot more professional than the production deserves. But it doesn’t read more
The Mighty Kong (1998, Art Scott) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 27, 2019
The Mighty Kong is fairly awful. It’d be nice to say there’s some kind of charm to it, given it’s an animated, family-targeted, period King Kong adaptation, it’s got Dudley Moore’s final performance, and Jodi Benson’s a lot more professional than the production deserves. But it doesn’t read more
The Mighty Kong (1998, Art Scott) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 27, 2019
The Mighty Kong is fairly awful. It’d be nice to say there’s some kind of charm to it, given it’s an animated, family-targeted, period King Kong adaptation, it’s got Dudley Moore’s final performance, and Jodi Benson’s a lot more professional than the production deserves. But it doesn’t read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e02 – Episode 2 (1)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 26, 2019
Now this episode feels like “Mindhunter.” It opens with Holt McCallany going to Wichita, with some great “period” Wichita shots, and consulting on the BTK case. There’s a bunch with him and the other cop, a rather nauseating sequence where they walk the crime scene—“Mindhunter,” at its read more
Mindhunter (2017) s02e02 – Episode 2 (2)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 26, 2019
Now this episode feels like “Mindhunter.” It opens with Holt McCallany going to Wichita, with some great “period” Wichita shots, and consulting on the BTK case. There’s a bunch with him and the other cop, a rather nauseating sequence where they walk the crime scene—“Mindhunter,” at its read more
Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 25, 2019
I was really hoping Boudu Saved From Drowning would have a spectacular finish so I wouldn’t have to write an opening paragraph about how it’s a pretty funny misanthropic class comedy until the titular character, played by Michel Simon as a mischievous, mean-spirited pervert variation on Chaplin’s read more
Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 25, 2019
I was really hoping Boudu Saved From Drowning would have a spectacular finish so I wouldn’t have to write an opening paragraph about how it’s a pretty funny misanthropic class comedy until the titular character, played by Michel Simon as a mischievous, mean-spirited pervert variation on Chaplin’s read more