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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985, William Friedkin)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 23, 2020
If you’ve ever started watching To Live and Die in L.A. and turned it off because it’s terrible or just heard of it and thought you should see it, let me say… there’s no reason to see it. Or sit through it. Not even morbid curiosity. Or unless you want to see John Pankow’s butt. Director Friedkin read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e08 – It Had to Be You
The Stop Button Posted by on May 23, 2020
So, funny thing about this season. The cops seem to have forgotten anyone hit Christina Applegate’s husband with a car and drove away. Like. When Diana Maria Riva is recapping her involvement with Applegate and Linda Cardellini for Natalie Morales? Doesn’t come up. It’s very strange. Though, I read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s03e04 – Blood & Money
The Stop Button Posted by on May 23, 2020
“Miss Fisher’s,” as a rule, doesn’t do children in danger episodes. There’s been at least one other one, maybe another (but I don’t think really think so), but this episode opens with a kid buried in a shallow grave. It’s very intense right off. Though it’s also got some post-war things read more
Frasier (1993) s02e04 – Flour Child
The Stop Button Posted by on May 23, 2020
I missed the Christopher Lloyd credit during the opening titles—James Burrows directing is no surprise—so I got to watch the episode without any writerly expectations. It feels somewhat like a first season episode, back when the show was establishing its take on structure. Here, we get a big setup read more
Vampira and Me (2012, Ray Greene)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 22, 2020
For its protracted 106 minute runtime, Vampira and Me is a combination of tragic, frustrating, annoying, and enthralling. The problem with the whole project is writer, producer, editor, director, and narrator Greene. Well, okay, the problem with any project about Vampira (Maila Nurmi) is the lack o read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e07 – If Only You Knew
The Stop Button Posted by on May 22, 2020
Wow, more of the, no, really, you like Christina Applegate and Sam McCarthy as a mother-son comedic pair. He’s quietly sullen and she’s loudly obscene. Please laugh. McCarthy is a leech on this season, frankly. Thanks to Natalie Morales and new James Marsden, “Dead to Me” has a new lease on read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) s02e07 – The Return
The Stop Button Posted by on May 22, 2020
It’s a team episode—or more of one—with Nick Kroll returning from the first season. Kroll was a posh New York vampire who was in love with one of Matt Berry’s hats. Unfortunately, that hat was cursed and Kroll’s having some very bad luck. He’s living in a sewer with one rapping sidekick read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s03e03 – Murder & Mozzarella
The Stop Button Posted by on May 22, 2020
So I thought this episode was one of those pre-1980s Mafia stories where they never referred to the Mafia by name because they call it the Camorra here but the Camorra is actually a different Italian criminal organization. The more you know. Miss Fisher (Essie Davis) and Inspector Jack (Nathan Page read more
New Podcast | Visual Reflux – s02e01 – A Giant-Size, Coronavirus, Limited Edition(?), Seventh Anniversary Special
The Stop Button Posted by on May 21, 2020
One year and thirteen days since the last episode… here’s the second episode of “Visual Reflux.” We didn’t mean to take over a year off. But, hey, at least we’re back? Anyway; this week we discuss a whole bunch: We’ll be back in… well, hopefully 3 wee read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e06 – You Don’t Have To
The Stop Button Posted by on May 21, 2020
So, first things first. Let’s get the negative out of the way; Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum does a poor job of directing. Not quite as bad as a first season episode, but definitely a return to the bad frame composition to cover for some of the actors not being very good. Like Sam McCarthy; I noticed read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e13 – I Am Legends
The Stop Button Posted by on May 21, 2020
Did you know you needed a “Legends vs. Zombies” episode of “Legends of Tomorrow”? Because I did not know I needed such a thing. I also didn’t realize I needed to see how much range Adam Tsekhman can exhibit on the drop of a… carrot. I’ve always liked Tsekhman but in a comic relief sort read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s03e02 – Murder & the Maiden
The Stop Button Posted by on May 21, 2020
Season three’s Jack (Nathan Page) jealousy is a lot less morose than previously. He’s jealous for Essie Davis’s history with Royal Australian Air Force captain Rodger Corser but it takes a while before Page lets it hinder he and Davis’s working relationship. Even when Corser’s withholding read more
Ginseng Roots (2019) #2
The Stop Button Posted by on May 20, 2020
Confession time—I never read Blankets, creator Craig Thompson’s first big work. And it now turns out Ginseng Roots is a somewhat direct sequel. This issue opens with Thompson going back to Wisconsin—he’d been living in Portland, OR (of course), which makes the questionable L.A. cartography last read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e04 – Between You and Me
The Stop Button Posted by on May 19, 2020
Much like the season premiere, this episode takes place an indeterminate time from the previous episode’s cliffhanger and skips over what theoretically should be some very interesting scenes as Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini have now committed federal crimes by digging up a national fores read more
Ginseng Roots (2019) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on May 19, 2020
Creator Craig Thompson has a hell of a hook for the first issue of Ginseng Roots—he gets to be interesting. Thompson grew up in Wisconsin in the seventies and eighties when the state was the number one grower of ginseng in the world. According to Thompson; I’m not going to check it because you’ve read more
Frasier (1993) s02e03 – The Matchmaker
The Stop Button Posted by on May 18, 2020
Being cishet, it’s not my place to say whether The Matchmaker has aged well. It seems to have aged well. The episode, guest-starring Eric Lutes as Kesley Grammer’s new boss, who happens to be gay and thinks Grammer is into him (because Peri Gilpin lets him think it, as she’s mad Grammer viciously read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e03 – You Can’t Live Like This
The Stop Button Posted by on May 18, 2020
Not only is the writing better this season—Cara DiPaolo this episode—but the direction is a major improvement as well. Tamra Davis directs this episode (Liza Johnson did the first two) and Davis has a whole bunch of experience. No more stupid portentous angles this season. I imagine the notes on read more
Frasier (1993) s02e02 – The Unkindest Cut of All
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2020
First yay, Lily Tomlin as caller cameo. Second yay, writer Dave Hackel (a seasoned sitcom vet who only will end up writing this one episode) knows how to give Peri Gilpin some great material. Very different from last season—she’s not desperate here, she’s just enthusiastically sexually active. read more
Dead to Me (2019) s02e02 – Where Have You Been
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2020
How’s “Dead to Me” going to keep James Marsden in the cast when his character, Steve, has apparently absconded to Mexico following Linda Cardellini turning him in for money laundering? Well, luckily the creators of “Dead to Me” have seen “The Book Group” too, and James Marsden has a twin read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s03e01 – Death Defying Feats
The Stop Button Posted by on May 17, 2020
“Miss Fisher’s” season three premiered almost a year and a half after the second season concluded, so the opening run-through—confirming returning cast members and breaking the show’s usual murder sans Miss Fisher intro—makes sense. Ashleigh Cummings is at a magic show with Travis McMahon read more