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Gelateria (2019, Christian Serritiello and Arthur Patching)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
Once it’s clear directors Patching and Serritiello are going to be able to keep Gelateria going, the question becomes how can they possibly end it. The film opens with a lone figure on a rocky beach, yelling into the sea. The water has sound, the yells don’t have sound. Given how the film ends… read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e11 – A Midwinter’s Tale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
It’s a Christmas special—or a Winter Solstice special—set before winter break for the teens, which adds to the weirdness because even though Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) said farewell to beau Ross Lynch last episode… turns out they’re still going to the same school. Yes, even though she’s all read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e04 – Playing with Fire
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 31, 2020
This episode’s about how awful both Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin turn out to be when it comes to money. Baskin’s won a lawsuit against Joe Exotic and he owes her a cool million. Carole and Howard aren’t doing it to prove a point or to stop Joe from doing his cub petting roadshow, they’re doing read more
Familiar Strangers (2020, Murat Sayginer)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Once the technology gets better, something like Familiar Strangers is going to be disturbing as all hell. Director Sayginer has created a bunch of heads, using deep-fake technology to look like various famous celebrities (Maggie Gyllenhaal and Luke Evans are the most spot on), and the top row moves read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e02 – Cult of Personality
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Somehow this episode manages to bury the lede. Will I spoil that lede? Not yet, but probably. “Tiger King” is a masterwork of manipulation as far as narrative non-fiction. Directors Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode have a great sense of what to hold back and what to get out there. For example, a read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e03 – The Secret
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Has Michelle Pfeiffer ever played a femme fatale? I almost want to say no, which will make Tim Burton’s Tigers even better. Because Carole Baskin sure does seem like she killed her second husband, rich guy Don Lewis (it’s unclear how he got rich but they’re in Florida so it doesn’t seem like read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e10 – The Witching Hour
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Ross Maxwell co-write, sending off of “Sabrina”’s first season, with a deus ex machine of an episode where Michelle Gomez decides she’s been waiting too long for Kiernan Shipka to embrace the Dark Lord and it’s time to get drastic about things. If Gomez can’t sabotage read more
Flimsy’s Mewsings (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 30, 2020
Flimsy’s Mewsings is approximately thirty-seven single page comic strips—there’s one two-pager, a recipe—of adorable kitten Flimsy offering life advance. Gentle stuff like be kind to yourself, remember the lesson and forget the mistake, be genuinely interested in other people, email the friends read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e09 – The Returned Man
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 29, 2020
This episode could also be called Everything Falls Apart. It puts Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) through one ringer after another; Shipka’s antics of the last couple episodes have resulted in some very bad, very dangerous situations—soulless cannibalistic husk people bad and dangerous—and she doesn’t read more
You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939, Lewis Seiler)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 29, 2020
The You in You Can’t Get Away With Murder refers to Billy Halop, nineteen year-old punk kid who doesn’t respect what sister Gale Page sacrifices for him and instead runs around with neighborhood tough Humphrey Bogart. They knock over gas stations, they play pool, it’s a good life… at least until read more
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020) s01e01 – Not Your Average Joe
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 29, 2020
First off, let’s just get the following statements out of the way. Netflix needs to hire Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and Tim Burton to make “Tiger King” into a movie and they need to cast Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Val Kilmer. George Clooney can stunt cameo. It’s what we read more
Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 28, 2020
The two most bewildering things about Annihilation are director Garland’s inability to frame for Panavision aspect ratio—did cinematographer Rob Hardy just not want to tell him he was reusing the same three close-up shots, with his subject on one side of the frame, looking off, the other three-quar read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e07 – Feast of Feasts
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2020
Netflix did drop “Sabrina” all at once so who knows if this Thanksgiving episode was meant to “air” on Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving theme doesn’t last long—enough to introduce the hilarious idea of Miranda Otto sitting and watching football all day for the violence–but once the witch read more
Erik the Viking (1989, Terry Jones)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2020
Erik the Viking is a great example of when the director doesn’t know how to direct the script. What makes it peculiar is… director Jones wrote the script. The film, an absurd comedy about a group of Vikings trying to end Ragnarok so they people will stop killing each other, starts with the th read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e08 – The Burial
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 27, 2020
Maggie Kiley directs this one and Kiley’s so far the best director on “Sabrina,” so I went in with high hopes. It doesn’t disappoint, which is something given how much the episode does. It starts with a mine collapse in Greendale, last episode’s cliffhangers—mean girls Abigail Cowen and read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e06 – An Exorcism in Greendale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 26, 2020
The opening showdown with Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) confronting Ms. Wardwell (Michelle Gomez) about Wardwell being a witch, spying on Sabrina, saving Sabrina from the sleep demon. Wardwell gives her a questionable tale about how she’s fulfilling a promise to Sabrina’s dead dad to protect her, which read more
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019, Michael Dougherty)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 26, 2020
I wonder if, much like that one immortal monkey divining Borges’s dreams and half-dreams at dawn on August 14, 1934, one could assemble a list of all the action beats in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which are mostly from Aliens and Jurassic Park 1 and 2, and arrange them to figure out the story read more
Congo (1995, Frank Marshall)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
At the end of Congo, after the heroes have found the lost expedition, the lost city, and the laser-pure diamonds but also run afoul of said lost city’s super-ape protectors and happened to find this place during a volcanic eruption, some of the super-apes jump into the lava flow. It’s a somewhat read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e04 – Witch Academy
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
I’m very confused; the witch school is within walking distance from the farm where Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) lives. I thought it was a boarding school far away. Turns out it’s a boarding school—Shipka has to do three nights there—but it’s within walking distance. So she was never going to see read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e05 – Dreams in a Witch House
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 25, 2020
This episode starts immediately after the previous one—Kiernan Shipka has just opened a demonic Rubik’s cube, designed by her dead father when he was in the same witch academy she now attends, and released a sleep demon (a make-up encased and excellent Megan Leitch). The episode is just the demon read more