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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
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
Robocop: Last Stand #4 (of 8)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 24, 2019
Putting on my Robocop nerd hat a minute (does it ever come off?), the first film’s writers wanted it to be a commentary on how Detroit used to make the best cars and—by the eighties—they made shit. This issue of Robocop: Last Stand has an inspiring, come-together moment for Detroiters to rebuild read more
Young Couples Only (1955, Richard Irving)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 22, 2019
Young Couples Only is really good. Especially when you consider how Bill Williams is so weak in the lead and how director Irving never does anything special. He never does anything bad, he just doesn’t do anything special. He certainly doesn’t keep Williams in line. It’s probably read more
Young Couples Only (1955, Richard Irving)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 22, 2019
Young Couples Only is really good. Especially when you consider how Bill Williams is so weak in the lead and how director Irving never does anything special. He never does anything bad, he just doesn’t do anything special. He certainly doesn’t keep Williams in line. It’s probably read more
Young Couples Only (1955, Richard Irving)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 22, 2019
Young Couples Only is really good. Especially when you consider how Bill Williams is so weak in the lead and how director Irving never does anything special. He never does anything bad, he just doesn’t do anything special. He certainly doesn’t keep Williams in line. It’s probably read more
Young Couples Only (1955, Richard Irving)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 22, 2019
Young Couples Only is really good. Especially when you consider how Bill Williams is so weak in the lead and how director Irving never does anything special. He never does anything bad, he just doesn’t do anything special. He certainly doesn’t keep Williams in line. It’s probably read more
Sick days
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 21, 2019
I hate being sick as an adult. Being sick as an adult means you have to first convince yourself you’re sick enough to take a sick day, then ask other people to trust your judgment. When you’re a kid, you only have to convince someone else you’re sick enough. It’s not like if the school nurse read more
Dramatic School (1938, Robert B. Sinclair)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 20, 2019
Given Dramatic School is all about top-billed Luise Rainer’s rise of stage stardom, it might help if she were actually the protagonist of the story, instead of its—occasional—subject. Because Rainer’s got to share the film with a bunch of other characters, none particularly interesting. There’s read more
Dramatic School (1938, Robert B. Sinclair)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 20, 2019
Given Dramatic School is all about top-billed Luise Rainer’s rise of stage stardom, it might help if she were actually the protagonist of the story, instead of its—occasional—subject. Because Rainer’s got to share the film with a bunch of other characters, none particularly interesting. There’s read more
Dramatic School (1938, Robert B. Sinclair)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 20, 2019
Given Dramatic School is all about top-billed Luise Rainer’s rise of stage stardom, it might help if she were actually the protagonist of the story, instead of its—occasional—subject. Because Rainer’s got to share the film with a bunch of other characters, none particularly interesting. There’s read more
Robocop: Last Stand #3 (of 8)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 20, 2019
Robocop: Last Stand #3 gives a great example of what’s lost in the idea of adapting Robocop 1, 2, 3, or 4 to comic books—the damage to Robocop. The movies are all about him getting beat to crap, just about broken, losing limbs, his human face getting revealed, on and on. This issue has something read more
Dramatic School (1938, Robert B. Sinclair)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 20, 2019
Given Dramatic School is all about top-billed Luise Rainer’s rise of stage stardom, it might help if she were actually the protagonist of the story, instead of its—occasional—subject. Because Rainer’s got to share the film with a bunch of other characters, none particularly interesting. There’s read more
Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy (2019, Tim Mahoney)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 18, 2019
When I decided to write about Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy, it was because I wanted to make the wee dick move of putting it in Stop Button’s rarely used “Cult” category. Thought it’d be funny. Controversy, which never suggests it’ll be anything but writer-director-star Mahoney read more
Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy (2019, Tim Mahoney)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2019
When I decided to write about Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy, it was because I wanted to make the wee dick move of putting it in Stop Button’s rarely used “Cult” category. Thought it’d be funny. Controversy, which never suggests it’ll be anything but writer-director-star Mahoney read more
Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy (2019, Tim Mahoney)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 18, 2019
When I decided to write about Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy, it was because I wanted to make the wee dick move of putting it in Stop Button’s rarely used “Cult” category. Thought it’d be funny. Controversy, which never suggests it’ll be anything but writer-director-star Mahoney read more