Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 18, 2019
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; read more
Oops
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 17, 2019
I’m currently writing my first Summing Up post on the iPad with the Bluetooth keyboard thing. It’s working pretty well… one sentence into the post. I had this idea I could teach myself to type on the keyboard one-handed but the iPad isn’t auto correctly lower case i to capital I. So read more
Better places
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 17, 2019
We’re caught up on TV shows so we tried three new shows last night. I find it odd I’ve got a TV-related project coming soon but I’m using Summing Up for this post. So hopefully I’ll at least get to some tangents. We did the first episodes for “Manifest,” “Russian Doll,” and “The Passage.” read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 15, 2019
Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some cattle). He’s guiding a wagon train to read more
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 15, 2019
Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some cattle). He’s guiding a wagon train to read more
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 15, 2019
Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some cattle). He’s guiding a wagon train to read more
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 15, 2019
Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some cattle). He’s guiding a wagon train to read more
Primrose Path (1940, Gregory La Cava) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 14, 2019
Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander read more
Primrose Path (1940, Gregory La Cava) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 14, 2019
Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander read more
Primrose Path (1940, Gregory La Cava) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 14, 2019
Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander read more
Primrose Path (1940, Gregory La Cava) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 14, 2019
Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander read more
Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley) (2)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 12, 2019
Sorry to Bother You has four endings. Well, more like three and a half. They’re all good enough endings, except the last one, which is truncated and just reminds how iffy the entire third act has been. Until the third act, the film is going strong. Underdeveloped but affable lead Lakeith Stan read more
Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley) (3)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 12, 2019
Sorry to Bother You has four endings. Well, more like three and a half. They’re all good enough endings, except the last one, which is truncated and just reminds how iffy the entire third act has been. Until the third act, the film is going strong. Underdeveloped but affable lead Lakeith Stan read more
Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley) (4)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 12, 2019
Sorry to Bother You has four endings. Well, more like three and a half. They’re all good enough endings, except the last one, which is truncated and just reminds how iffy the entire third act has been. Until the third act, the film is going strong. Underdeveloped but affable lead Lakeith Stan read more
Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley) (1)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 12, 2019
Sorry to Bother You has four endings. Well, more like three and a half. They’re all good enough endings, except the last one, which is truncated and just reminds how iffy the entire third act has been. Until the third act, the film is going strong. Underdeveloped but affable lead Lakeith Stan read more
Not cats
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 11, 2019
I had this little post in mind about how I don’t see our cats as children as much as these adorable and weird people you have around. I’m not sure what the human correlation would be, but even with Shaz, who we’ve had since she was a (feral) kitten, I see her more as a persnickety read more