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The Good Earth (1937, Sidney Franklin)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 1, 2019
For maybe the first ninety minutes of The Good Earth, it seems like the most interesting thing to talk about is going to be how the filmmakers were able to make the lead characters in the film appear sympathetic while they were being, frankly, un-American. It makes sense, since the main characters read more
The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 30, 2019
The Emperor’s Candlesticks starts with an exceptional display of chemistry from Robert Young and Maureen O’Sullivan. They’re at the opera, it’s the late nineteenth century, it’s a masked costume ball, Young is a Grand Duke dressed as Romeo, and O’Sullivan is the sun. Then it turns out O’Sullivan read more
The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 30, 2019
The Emperor’s Candlesticks starts with an exceptional display of chemistry from Robert Young and Maureen O’Sullivan. They’re at the opera, it’s the late nineteenth century, it’s a masked costume ball, Young is a Grand Duke dressed as Romeo, and O’Sullivan is the sun. Then it turns out O’Sullivan read more
The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2019
The Emperor’s Candlesticks starts with an exceptional display of chemistry from Robert Young and Maureen O’Sullivan. They’re at the opera, it’s the late nineteenth century, it’s a masked costume ball, Young is a Grand Duke dressed as Romeo, and O’Sullivan is the sun. Then it turns out O’Sullivan read more
Robocop: Last Stand #8 (of 8)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2019
Robocop: Last Stand #8 screams behind-the-scenes story. It’s got a new writer, on issue eight of an eight issue limited, but it’s also got no mention of Frank Miller. Besides the narrative—which loosely follows the previous seven issues but could also be seen entirely as a follow-up to Robocop read more
The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2019
The Emperor’s Candlesticks starts with an exceptional display of chemistry from Robert Young and Maureen O’Sullivan. They’re at the opera, it’s the late nineteenth century, it’s a masked costume ball, Young is a Grand Duke dressed as Romeo, and O’Sullivan is the sun. Then it turns out O’Sullivan read more
The Maltese Falcon (1931, Roy Del Ruth)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 28, 2019
Not to be too obvious, but I really wasn’t expecting a twist ending for The Maltese Falcon. But only because I’ve… read the book, seen the 1941 version, seen spoofs of it; I sort of figured I’d be able to guess the plot turns. And I did, right up until the end, when Falcon shows its been doing read more
The Maltese Falcon (1931, Roy Del Ruth)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 28, 2019
Not to be too obvious, but I really wasn’t expecting a twist ending for The Maltese Falcon. But only because I’ve… read the book, seen the 1941 version, seen spoofs of it; I sort of figured I’d be able to guess the plot turns. And I did, right up until the end, when Falcon shows its been doing read more
The Maltese Falcon (1931, Roy Del Ruth)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 28, 2019
Not to be too obvious, but I really wasn’t expecting a twist ending for The Maltese Falcon. But only because I’ve… read the book, seen the 1941 version, seen spoofs of it; I sort of figured I’d be able to guess the plot turns. And I did, right up until the end, when Falcon shows its been doing read more
The Maltese Falcon (1931, Roy Del Ruth)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 28, 2019
Not to be too obvious, but I really wasn’t expecting a twist ending for The Maltese Falcon. But only because I’ve… read the book, seen the 1941 version, seen spoofs of it; I sort of figured I’d be able to guess the plot turns. And I did, right up until the end, when Falcon shows its been doing read more
Robocop: Last Stand #7 (of 8)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 28, 2019
This issue of Last Stand has me wishing I had been timing how long the comic took to read. It’s an all action issue. There’s Robocop versus Japanese cyborgs, good guys at OCP trying to survive slash beat the “suit” villain (which gives Last Stand’s sidekicks more to do than Robo sidekicks read more
Robocop: Last Stand #6 (of 8)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2019
Robocop: Last Stand #6 is where the comic finally gets around to one of the main Robocop 3 plot points (and advertising focuses). The jet pack. Flying Robocop. The way Grant handles it is to bake it into an even bigger cyberpunk-y but mainstream sci-fi moment. This plot point, however, seems to hav read more
Hostages (1943, Frank Tuttle)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 26, 2019
At one point during Hostages, I thought there might actually be a good performance in it somewhere. Czech freedom fighter Katina Paxinou faces off with her mother over her Resistance work. It has the potential for a good moment, turns out it’s just an adequate one (amid the sea of inadequate ones read more
Hostages (1943, Frank Tuttle)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 26, 2019
At one point during Hostages, I thought there might actually be a good performance in it somewhere. Czech freedom fighter Katina Paxinou faces off with her mother over her Resistance work. It has the potential for a good moment, turns out it’s just an adequate one (amid the sea of inadequate ones read more
Hostages (1943, Frank Tuttle)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 26, 2019
At one point during Hostages, I thought there might actually be a good performance in it somewhere. Czech freedom fighter Katina Paxinou faces off with her mother over her Resistance work. It has the potential for a good moment, turns out it’s just an adequate one (amid the sea of inadequate ones read more
Hostages (1943, Frank Tuttle)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 26, 2019
At one point during Hostages, I thought there might actually be a good performance in it somewhere. Czech freedom fighter Katina Paxinou faces off with her mother over her Resistance work. It has the potential for a good moment, turns out it’s just an adequate one (amid the sea of inadequate ones read more
Robocop: Last Stand #5 (of 8)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2019
This issue opens with a “you really should have seen this coming” twist. It’s an intense open, then the issue moves right away into a lengthy action sequence. Pretty much the whole issue. I went into this issue expecting it to start a “second story” or at least make sense as a halfway point read more
The Toy Wife (1938, Richard Thorpe)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 24, 2019
The only impressive thing about The Toy Wife (not good, not admirable) is the film’s ability to keep going professionally, no matter how stupid it gets. There are no easy outs in the picture; even when people start dying off to up the tragedy, there’s still a seemingly endless amount of run time read more
The Toy Wife (1938, Richard Thorpe)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 24, 2019
The only impressive thing about The Toy Wife (not good, not admirable) is the film’s ability to keep going professionally, no matter how stupid it gets. There are no easy outs in the picture; even when people start dying off to up the tragedy, there’s still a seemingly endless amount of run time read more
The Toy Wife (1938, Richard Thorpe)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 24, 2019
The only impressive thing about The Toy Wife (not good, not admirable) is the film’s ability to keep going professionally, no matter how stupid it gets. There are no easy outs in the picture; even when people start dying off to up the tragedy, there’s still a seemingly endless amount of run time read more