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The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 8, 2019
The Trouble with Harry is very cute. It’s fine, the film’s intentionally cute, but it’s also somewhat frustrating. With the exception of the glorious Technicolor exteriors of Vermont leaves, director Hitchcock and photographer Robert Burks don’t do anything particularly interesting. John Michael read more
Moon Knight (2019, Caden Butera)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 6, 2019
Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of read more
Moon Knight (2019, Caden Butera)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 6, 2019
Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of read more
Moon Knight (2019, Caden Butera)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 6, 2019
Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of read more
Moon Knight (2019, Caden Butera)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 6, 2019
Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of read more
Bright ideas
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 5, 2019
Some time ago I added an “Index by rating” page on The Stop Button. I don’t add new features to the site based on things I’d used, I add them based on whether or not the idea strikes me at the time. There’s a bunch of unpublished and deleted features for the site, with read more
Sensitivity Training (2016, Melissa Finell)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 4, 2019
Sensitivity Training is… an easy (but not in a pejorative way) comedy with winning (but not in a sarcastic way) lead performances. It’s never daring, but it has some good laughs. It’s better than middle of the road but it there’s not much exciting about it. Director Finell does a great job with read more
Sensitivity Training (2016, Melissa Finell)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 4, 2019
Sensitivity Training is… an easy (but not in a pejorative way) comedy with winning (but not in a sarcastic way) lead performances. It’s never daring, but it has some good laughs. It’s better than middle of the road but it there’s not much exciting about it. Director Finell does a great job with read more
Sensitivity Training (2016, Melissa Finell)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 4, 2019
Sensitivity Training is… an easy (but not in a pejorative way) comedy with winning (but not in a sarcastic way) lead performances. It’s never daring, but it has some good laughs. It’s better than middle of the road but it there’s not much exciting about it. Director Finell does a great job with read more
Sensitivity Training (2016, Melissa Finell)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 4, 2019
Sensitivity Training is… an easy (but not in a pejorative way) comedy with winning (but not in a sarcastic way) lead performances. It’s never daring, but it has some good laughs. It’s better than middle of the road but it there’s not much exciting about it. Director Finell does a great job with read more
Cat pee
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 3, 2019
I’ve been sort of dreading today’s Summing Up post. I tried brainstorming, riffing, etc. Got nowhere. Mostly thought in circles. Then I realized it’s the perfect time for the cat pee post. Because last night, when I discovered Fozzy peed all over one of my slippers to protest bein read more
Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 2, 2019
The first hour of Mikey and Nicky is trying to decide if you’re going to like either of them. Because they don’t deserve sympathy, it’s just whether you’re going to like them. It’s possible to be sympathetic to Peter Falk (Mikey) while still liking John Cassavettes (Nicky). The movie runs read more
Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 2, 2019
The first hour of Mikey and Nicky is trying to decide if you’re going to like either of them. Because they don’t deserve sympathy, it’s just whether you’re going to like them. It’s possible to be sympathetic to Peter Falk (Mikey) while still liking John Cassavettes (Nicky). The movie runs read more
Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 2, 2019
The first hour of Mikey and Nicky is trying to decide if you’re going to like either of them. Because they don’t deserve sympathy, it’s just whether you’re going to like them. It’s possible to be sympathetic to Peter Falk (Mikey) while still liking John Cassavettes (Nicky). The movie runs read more
Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 2, 2019
The first hour of Mikey and Nicky is trying to decide if you’re going to like either of them. Because they don’t deserve sympathy, it’s just whether you’re going to like them. It’s possible to be sympathetic to Peter Falk (Mikey) while still liking John Cassavettes (Nicky). The movie runs read more
Jaws song
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 1, 2019
I’ve run The Stop Button at various levels of pretentiousness over the years. So not having star ratings was something I thought about a lot. For whatever reason, whether someone I knew who liked movies was LaserDisc level or just someone who respected OAR (even if they still watched P&S) read more
Night Call (1964, Jacques Tourneur)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 31, 2019
Night Call’s pre-Rod Serling tag has lead Gladys Cooper having trouble sleeping through a thunderstorm. She then gets two phone calls at 2 a.m., with just static on the line. The next day, after the Serling intro promising Cooper’s in for a momentous event, Cooper tries reporting the phone calls read more
Night Call (1964, Jacques Tourneur)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 31, 2019
Night Call’s pre-Rod Serling tag has lead Gladys Cooper having trouble sleeping through a thunderstorm. She then gets two phone calls at 2 a.m., with just static on the line. The next day, after the Serling intro promising Cooper’s in for a momentous event, Cooper tries reporting the phone calls read more
Night Call (1964, Jacques Tourneur)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 31, 2019
Night Call’s pre-Rod Serling tag has lead Gladys Cooper having trouble sleeping through a thunderstorm. She then gets two phone calls at 2 a.m., with just static on the line. The next day, after the Serling intro promising Cooper’s in for a momentous event, Cooper tries reporting the phone calls read more
Night Call (1964, Jacques Tourneur)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 31, 2019
Night Call’s pre-Rod Serling tag has lead Gladys Cooper having trouble sleeping through a thunderstorm. She then gets two phone calls at 2 a.m., with just static on the line. The next day, after the Serling intro promising Cooper’s in for a momentous event, Cooper tries reporting the phone calls read more