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Wonder Woman (1974, Vincent McEveety)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 15, 2016
Wonder Woman doesn’t work out, but it should. And lead Cathy Lee Crosby is so serious about her performance and the role, even when it’s underwritten, it’s hard not to be sympathetic. John D.F. Black’s simultaneously awful and inventive teleplay recasts Wonder Woman as a spy read more
[BASP] Mars Attacks! (1996, Tim Burton) / Sleepy Hollow (1999, Tim Burton)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 15, 2016
The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Fifteen Mars Attacks! (1996, Tim Burton) / Sleepy Hollow (1999, Tim Burton) Originally posted: May 4, 2011 Subscribe via iTunes. read more
Lizzie (1957, Hugo Haas)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 15, 2016
Lizzie is about lead Eleanor Parker’s struggle with multiple personality disorder. More accurately perhaps, Lizzie is about Parker’s multiple personality disorder. As a protagonist, Parker disappears fairly quickly into the film’s eighty minute runtime. She doesn’t even get read more
Wonder Woman (1974, Vincent McEveety)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 15, 2016
Wonder Woman doesn’t work out, but it should. And lead Cathy Lee Crosby is so serious about her performance and the role, even when it’s underwritten, it’s hard not to be sympathetic. John D.F. Black’s simultaneously awful and inventive teleplay recasts Wonder Woman as a spy read more
Lizzie (1957, Hugo Haas)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 15, 2016
Lizzie is about lead Eleanor Parker’s struggle with multiple personality disorder. More accurately perhaps, Lizzie is about Parker’s multiple personality disorder. As a protagonist, Parker disappears fairly quickly into the film’s eighty minute runtime. She doesn’t even get read more
Hackers (1995, Iain Softley)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 13, 2016
While Hackers is a terrible film, it does afford one the opportunity to see Jonny Lee Miller attempt to essay his lead role as a Ferris Bueller-type thing, only to instead do a strange rendition of Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. It’s not worth seeing for this performance, not at all, but if y read more
Hackers (1995, Iain Softley)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 13, 2016
While Hackers is a terrible film, it does afford one the opportunity to see Jonny Lee Miller attempt to essay his lead role as a Ferris Bueller-type thing, only to instead do a strange rendition of Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. It’s not worth seeing for this performance, not at all, but if y read more
[BASP] Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 8, 2016
The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Fourteen Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller) Originally posted: April 11, 2011 Subscribe via iTunes. read more
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 8, 2016
The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Fourteen Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller) Originally posted: April 11, 2011 Subscribe via iTunes. read more
The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 6, 2016
Much of The Dark Knight Rises is rushed. The film runs over two and a half hours and director Nolan can’t find anything he wants to spend much time on. He’s got a lot of characters to occupy that run time; they occasionally intersect, but rarely long enough to make an impression. Nolan read more
Batman & Robin (1997, Joel Schumacher)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 6, 2016
I’m not going to defend Batman & Robin. It’s not so much a matter of the film being indefensible, it’s just a matter of it being a pointless exercise. And, by defend, I don’t mean identifying who gives the least embarrassing performance (Michael Gough) or who is just jaw read more
Batman & Robin (1997, Joel Schumacher)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 6, 2016
I’m not going to defend Batman & Robin. It’s not so much a matter of the film being indefensible, it’s just a matter of it being a pointless exercise. And, by defend, I don’t mean identifying who gives the least embarrassing performance (Michael Gough) or who is just jaw read more
The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Mar 6, 2016
Much of The Dark Knight Rises is rushed. The film runs over two and a half hours and director Nolan can’t find anything he wants to spend much time on. He’s got a lot of characters to occupy that run time; they occasionally intersect, but rarely long enough to make an impression. Nolan read more
[BASP] Revenge of the Nerds (1984, Jeff Kanew) / Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987, Joe Roth)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 29, 2016
The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Thirteen Revenge of the Nerds (1984, Jeff Kanew) / Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987, Joe Roth) Originally posted: March 27, 2011 Subscribe via iTunes. read more
[BASP] Revenge of the Nerds (1984, Jeff Kanew) / Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987, Joe Roth)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 29, 2016
The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Thirteen Revenge of the Nerds (1984, Jeff Kanew) / Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987, Joe Roth) Originally posted: March 27, 2011 Subscribe via iTunes. read more
Atlantic City (1980, Louis Malle)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 29, 2016
For a film with quite a bit of grounded violence, Atlantic City is pretty genial. Director Malle shoots in close medium shots; there’s not a lot of grandeur to his shots. Atlantic City has grandeur, as a setting, but Malle doesn’t go out of his way to stylize it. Cinematographer Richard read more
Atlantic City (1980, Louis Malle)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 29, 2016
For a film with quite a bit of grounded violence, Atlantic City is pretty genial. Director Malle shoots in close medium shots; there’s not a lot of grandeur to his shots. Atlantic City has grandeur, as a setting, but Malle doesn’t go out of his way to stylize it. Cinematographer Richard read more
Eddie the Eagle (2016, Dexter Fletcher)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 28, 2016
Eddie the Eagle is charming. It’s assured–great script from Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton–and a wonderful sense of time and place (eighties UK and Europe, then Canada) from director Fletcher. Fletcher’s got some problems I’ll get to in a bit but Eddie’s got a ph read more
Eddie the Eagle (2016, Dexter Fletcher)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 28, 2016
Eddie the Eagle is charming. It’s assured–great script from Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton–and a wonderful sense of time and place (eighties UK and Europe, then Canada) from director Fletcher. Fletcher’s got some problems I’ll get to in a bit but Eddie’s got a ph read more
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972, Bob Rafelson)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 23, 2016
The King of Marvin Gardens is an extremely quiet film. Jack Nicholson’s protagonist is a radio monologist, which suggests the viewer should listen to the content of his dialogue, but the secret of Marvin Gardens is that content’s unimportance. After a brief introduction to NicholsonR read more