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Chad Agamemnon (2017) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 14, 2020
This first issue is, sadly, the only issue of Chad Agamemnon. Creator Nowak wrote and drew the book for the Ann Arbor Public Library and, whatever the arrangement, it wasn’t feasible for the book to continue. A bummer, because it’s charming as all heck. The titular Chad is a young wizard in exile, read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e03 – The Green Mill Murder
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 14, 2020
There’s a lot going on this episode for star Essie Davis even though it’s not entirely clear to the audience until much later in the episode. Just before the mystery resolve, actually. This murder case has hit close to home for Davis, who’s on the scene when it happens—she’s meeting old friend read more
Frasier (1993) s01e08 – Beloved Infidel
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 13, 2020
In some ways, this episode of “Frasier” is the best one so far. If the show is supposed to be about Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Martin (John Mahoney) actually connecting as son and father, respectively, Leslie Eberhard’s script does it. It does it so much you’re left wondering what the repercussio read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e02 – Murder on the Ballarat Train
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 13, 2020
This episode takes place soon after the first, with communist taxi drivers Travis McMahon and Anthony J. Sharpe not yet full-time in Essie Davis’s employ. Well, they don’t know they’re in her full-time employ yet. They realize it in their second scene, when she gets them a new car and they start read more
Mighty Joe Young (1949, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 13, 2020
From the first scene, Mighty Joe Young is concerning. There’s a nice establishing shot of an Africa plantation, with some great matte work, then little White girl on the plantation Lora Lee Michel sees a couple African men passing with a basket. She wants what’s in the basket, so there’s a nice read more
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012) s01e01 – Cocaine Blues
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 12, 2020
Of course, “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” is based on a novel. How did I miss it was based on a novel… Not because Deb Cox’s script ever feels too much like an adaptation—quite the opposite—but because it does such a good job setting up the supporting cast. Lead Essie Davis meets her read more
To Be Seen (2014)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 12, 2020
To Be Seen is this lyrical piece about an unnamed female tween narrator and her life at a particular time. There are six vignettes in the comic, with most of them echoing throughout others. The strips are gentle, sometimes funny, sometimes scary—Nowak captures that period where in childhood where read more
Frasier (1993) s01e07 – Call Me Irresponsible
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 12, 2020
It’s a Kelsey Grammar-centric episode—it’s about Frasier’s first girlfriend since the divorce, though they’re never too specific about it (just Frasier still thinks women don’t have to pay on dates). Only he manages to screw it all up, even when he finds out the girlfriend (Amanda Donohue read more
Magnum Force (1973, Ted Post)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 11, 2020
With forty minutes left in its way too long 124 minute runtime, Magnum Force starts getting real tiresome. The film’s already gone through multiple set pieces, with the Clint Eastwood ones pointless to the narrative but apparently what screenwriters Michael Cimino and John Milius think is character read more
All Rise (2019) s01e19 – In the Fights
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 11, 2020
I wonder if occurred to the producers they should’ve saved up to license With A Little Help From My Friends for this episode, which is mostly about Jessica Camacho–who started the show getting out of a physically abusive marriage—defending a client accused of assaulting his girlfriend and read more
Frasier (1993) s01e06 – The Crucible
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 11, 2020
This episode brings Peri Gilpin to Kelsey Grammer’s apartment for the first time. It’s not because of what happens with Gilpin there but what doesn’t. During the course of the episode, she meets Grammer’s dad, John Mahoney, but not onscreen. She comes up in conversation later when Mahoney suggests read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e20 – The Mephisto Waltz
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 10, 2020
So, Luke Ford, who plays Lucifer this episode, looks a lot like Taylor Kitsch. Enough I thought they maybe paid for Kitsch. They didn’t, they got Ford. Who doesn’t seem to have voiced goat Satan in the previous episodes. Anyway. It’s the big finale, with Kiernan Shipka unintentionally letting read more
Frasier (1993) s01e05 – Here’s Looking at You
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 10, 2020
It’s a very good episode overall—script courtesy Brad Hall, with able direction from Andy Ackerman—and an even better one for Jane Leeves. She’s gotten to do a lot of comedy to this point, but when it comes time for the heart part of the episode, it’s all her. This episode also feels like read more
Nimona (2015)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 10, 2020
Nimona started as a webcomic, which explains some of how creator Noelle Stevenson paces it and sets the narrative distance. It often feels very much like a traditional newspaper strip, showing the (admittedly peculiar) domestic lives of its cast. The first book opens with teen Nimona sneaking into read more
Frasier (1993) s01e04 – I Hate Frasier Crane
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 9, 2020
This episode has two celebrity guest callers—Judith Ivey is the patient and Joe Mantegna as part of the plot. Mantegna is a Seattle Times newspaper columnist who can’t stand lead Kelsey Grammer’s show. Grammer has a couple great monologues where he reads from the articles and rants about them. read more
A Safe Place (1971, Henry Jaglom)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 9, 2020
A Safe Place tracks the relationship of apparently financially secure but listless hippie Tuesday Weld and her square of a new boyfriend, Phil Proctor. Weld spends her time presumably stoned—though we don’t see her smoke, her friends are always rolling a joint or smoking one—and dwelling on the read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e19 – The Mandrake
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 9, 2020
This episode gets off to a rough start wrapping up last episode’s cliffhanger—Sabrina and the gang discovering a shrine to her in the mines, which is at least hundreds of years old. Kevin Rodney Sullivan’s direction is peculiar in a bad way (unless there’s a good reason for it like they reshot read more
Fresh Horses (1988, David Anspaugh)
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 8, 2020
The surprise tragedy of Fresh Horses is Molly Ringwald could’ve been good in it. Even though she’s top-billed, she doesn’t get a scene without Andrew McCarthy until almost halfway through the movie—she’s the white trash object of his working-to-middle class sexual lust—but she’s not good read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e18 – The Miracles of Sabrina Spellman
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 8, 2020
So following Sabrina showing herself off as a possible messiah, Richard Coyle gets back to town with Miranda Otto—Otto’s totally Stepford Wives—and convinces his bosses she’s a heretic and they’re just going to have to kill her. Meanwhile, Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) is enjoying her new powers. read more
Frasier (1993) s01e03 – Dinner at Eight
The Stop Button Posted by on Apr 8, 2020
This episode features Niles (David Hyde Pierce) meeting Daphne (Jane Leeves) for the first time and it’s amazing. Also amazing is how Kelsey Grammer is on it from the start, initially bewildered at Hyde Pierce’s behavior. Grammer really gets across how predictable Frasier finds his brother. It’s read more