Thistles and Thorns (2019, Kalie Acheson)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 15, 2019
Thistles and Thorns opens with a girl (Madison Vance) going into a forest preserve after school. Vance is practically beaming as she does, which doesn’t initially make sense—when she’s walking on the street—but does once she’s in the forest, looking around at all the nature. She goes to a read more
Thistles and Thorns (2018, Kalie Acheson) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 15, 2019
Thistles and Thorns opens with a girl (Madison Vance) going into a forest preserve after school. Vance is practically beaming as she does, which doesn’t initially make sense—when she’s walking on the street—but does once she’s in the forest, looking around at all the nature. She goes to a read more
Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940, Brian Desmond Hurst) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 13, 2019
Miss Grant Goes to the Door is a rather well-executed propaganda short. There’s an air raid and two British sisters prepare to go to the shelter. Mary Clare is the noncommittal one, who wants to go back to bed, who needs to get her sewing before she can go to the basement. She even turns on the lig read more
Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940, Brian Desmond Hurst) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 13, 2019
Miss Grant Goes to the Door is a rather well-executed propaganda short. There’s an air raid and two British sisters prepare to go to the shelter. Mary Clare is the noncommittal one, who wants to go back to bed, who needs to get her sewing before she can go to the basement. She even turns on the lig read more
Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940, Brian Desmond Hurst) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 13, 2019
Miss Grant Goes to the Door is a rather well-executed propaganda short. There’s an air raid and two British sisters prepare to go to the shelter. Mary Clare is the noncommittal one, who wants to go back to bed, who needs to get her sewing before she can go to the basement. She even turns on the lig read more
Crashed
The Stop Button Posted by on May 13, 2019
I’m two Visual Reflux posts behind (I don’t know why I went from one post a day to at least one VR post a day but whatever) so here’s another WordPress-related one. WordPress frustration related one. Well, combination WordPress frustration and frustration at self one. Last October, I made header read more
Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940, Brian Desmond Hurst) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 13, 2019
Miss Grant Goes to the Door is a rather well-executed propaganda short. There’s an air raid and two British sisters prepare to go to the shelter. Mary Clare is the noncommittal one, who wants to go back to bed, who needs to get her sewing before she can go to the basement. She even turns on the lig read more
Shortcodes
The Stop Button Posted by on May 12, 2019
Apologies for the blog-geeky post. Not even Visual Reflux related blog-geeky. I have a lot of indices over The Stop Button. Until a few weeks ago, all have them have been manually maintained. For about fifteen years. Well, wait. Going back to the first Sandvox Stop Button so probably more like thir read more
Hail Satan? (2019, Penny Lane) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 11, 2019
Hail Satan? starts with a joke and ends with Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves having to wear a kevlar vest to a rally because so many Pro-Life, Born Again Christians are making legitimate assassination threats. The opening joke is one of the first Satanic Temple rallies, when they’re goof read more
Hail Satan? (2019, Penny Lane) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 11, 2019
Hail Satan? starts with a joke and ends with Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves having to wear a kevlar vest to a rally because so many Pro-Life, Born Again Christians are making legitimate assassination threats. The opening joke is one of the first Satanic Temple rallies, when they’re goof read more
Hail Satan? (2019, Penny Lane) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2019
Hail Satan? starts with a joke and ends with Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves having to wear a kevlar vest to a rally because so many Pro-Life, Born Again Christians are making legitimate assassination threats. The opening joke is one of the first Satanic Temple rallies, when they’re goof read more
Hail Satan? (2019, Penny Lane) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 11, 2019
Hail Satan? starts with a joke and ends with Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves having to wear a kevlar vest to a rally because so many Pro-Life, Born Again Christians are making legitimate assassination threats. The opening joke is one of the first Satanic Temple rallies, when they’re goof read more
Rain (1932, Lewis Milestone) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 10, 2019
Rain is an adaptation of an adaptation. Maxwell Anderson’s script is based on John Colton and Clemence Randolph’s stage script of a Somerset Maugham story. The story’s from 1921, the play first ran in 1922, Rain is from 1932. Maugham’s story is a first-person account, the play is not but does read more
Rain (1932, Lewis Milestone) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 10, 2019
Rain is an adaptation of an adaptation. Maxwell Anderson’s script is based on John Colton and Clemence Randolph’s stage script of a Somerset Maugham story. The story’s from 1921, the play first ran in 1922, Rain is from 1932. Maugham’s story is a first-person account, the play is not but does read more
Rain (1932, Lewis Milestone) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 10, 2019
Rain is an adaptation of an adaptation. Maxwell Anderson’s script is based on John Colton and Clemence Randolph’s stage script of a Somerset Maugham story. The story’s from 1921, the play first ran in 1922, Rain is from 1932. Maugham’s story is a first-person account, the play is not but does read more
Rain (1932, Lewis Milestone) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 10, 2019
Rain is an adaptation of an adaptation. Maxwell Anderson’s script is based on John Colton and Clemence Randolph’s stage script of a Somerset Maugham story. The story’s from 1921, the play first ran in 1922, Rain is from 1932. Maugham’s story is a first-person account, the play is not but does read more
Two Cars, One Night (2004, Taika Waititi) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 8, 2019
Trying to describe Two Cars, One Night without getting schmaltzy might be difficult. It’s sublime, gentle, tender, funny, brilliant, inspired, exceptional. Director Waititi’s just as phenomenal directing his young actors as he is at composing the shots to emphasize their experiences; specifically, read more
Two Cars, One Night (2004, Taika Waititi) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 8, 2019
Trying to describe Two Cars, One Night without getting schmaltzy might be difficult. It’s sublime, gentle, tender, funny, brilliant, inspired, exceptional. Director Waititi’s just as phenomenal directing his young actors as he is at composing the shots to emphasize their experiences; specifically, read more
Two Cars, One Night (2004, Taika Waititi) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 8, 2019
Trying to describe Two Cars, One Night without getting schmaltzy might be difficult. It’s sublime, gentle, tender, funny, brilliant, inspired, exceptional. Director Waititi’s just as phenomenal directing his young actors as he is at composing the shots to emphasize their experiences; specifically, read more
Two Cars, One Night (2004, Taika Waititi) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 8, 2019
Trying to describe Two Cars, One Night without getting schmaltzy might be difficult. It’s sublime, gentle, tender, funny, brilliant, inspired, exceptional. Director Waititi’s just as phenomenal directing his young actors as he is at composing the shots to emphasize their experiences; specifically, read more