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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020, Cathy Yan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 24, 2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a Margot Robbie vehicle, which is excellent, because Robbie’s great and the filmmaking, particularly on Robbie’s scenes, is outstanding. Retitling it the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn would be the best move; the Bird read more
Timeline (2003, Richard Donner)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
Timeline is really bad. The opening sequence starts Donner regular Steve Kahan in a terrible bit part but at least there’s the stunt casting; the rest of the poorly edited sequence has ER doctors and anonymous law enforcement looking into the mysterious death of a man who appeared in the middle of read more
Becker (1998) s01e19 – Truth and Consequences
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
Marsha Myers wrote this episode and Myers has been one of the only reliable writers this season. So high hopes for it. And strange disappointment because Truth and Consequences does succeed but it doesn’t have much to do with Myers’s script. It succeeds because it’s got Richard Schiff in a sitcom read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e03 – The Trial of Sabrina Spellman
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
No Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa script this episode, Ross Maxwell instead, which initially confirmed my idea about how the first two episodes were the extended pilot and now we’re getting into series proper. Actually, no, because this episode serves to set the series up to be, you know, a series. The epi read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e02 – The Dark Baptism
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
I started this episode very happy Lee Toland Krieger was directing and then immediately regretted it because Krieger uses these camera filters—the iMovie version of wiping Vaseline on the lens—to center viewer attention. So while “Sabrina” has that questionable streaming 2.1:1 aspect ratio… read more
Becker (1998) s01e18 – Saving Harvey Cohen
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 23, 2020
The episode plays like writer Eric Cohen really likes “Becker.” Everyone in the cast gets something to do; even if it’s a little subplot, it’s a complete one. The main plot has Becker (Ted Danson) reluctantly caring for a sick stray cat, including some really obvious stuff when he takes it to read more
The 13th Warrior (1999, John McTiernan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 22, 2020
No one in The 13th Warrior seems particularly thrilled to be participating in The 13th Warrior. Some people carry it better than others—Omar Sharif’s cameo is the only “good” acting in the film, as he translates and interprets events for lead Antonio Banderas, who can’t speak the common language read more
Becker (1998) s01e17 – Partial Law
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 21, 2020
Even though I know I don’t remember this episode—the first in the series directed by Ken Levine, whose blog convinced me to give “Becker” another shot back in the day and was seemingly correct since I watched the whole show even though it’s a slog to get to through the opening fumbles—it read more
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955, Robert Gordon)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 21, 2020
I finished watching It Came from Beneath the Sea, which I regret, particularly because the whole reason I didn’t shut it down was for the big special effects finale, when the giant radioactive octopus finally attacks a city. Incidentally, it’s San Francisco, which doesn’t turn out to be anywhere read more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e01 – October Country
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 21, 2020
The opening titles of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” are, for the most part (if memory serves), Robert Hack art from the source comic book. Now, not only is the comic super-gory, it’s also a period(ish) piece; the show is set modern but none of the teenagers has a smartphone, so it’s a bit read more
Six-String Samurai (1998, Lance Mungia)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 20, 2020
Released in 1998, Six-String Samurai makes the big move of using a very familiar piece of music from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack (Misirlou, which is also the music on the Pulp Fiction trailer) during a big action sequence. It’s not a bold move, because Samurai hasn’t got any boldness. It even walks read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e08 – Romeo V. Juliet: Dawn of Justness
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 20, 2020
It’s another big win good episode of “Legends.” It’s the farewell episode for Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford, which has all sorts of feelings but also Routh not being able to tell best bro Nick Zano the truth. Routh and Ford tell everyone else they’re leaving—in this great line for the read more
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, J.A. Bayona)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 19, 2020
After a strong dinosaur suspense opening, with some futuristic submersible entering the closed Jurassic World bay to get something off the seafloor, Fallen Kingdom shockingly quickly becomes a remake of the first Jurassic Park sequel, Lost World. Like, so much you wish there were more in it so Davi read more
Hunters (2020) s01e08 – The Jewish Question
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
Well… while this issue has some great stuff for Carol Kane and Saul Rubinek, pretty much everyone else is at the other end of the stick, which seems like a mixed metaphor but basically there’s some not great acting this episode. The Nazis blowing up a subway was the final straw to convince Logan read more
Hunters (2020) s01e07 – Shalom Motherf***er
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
“Hunters” and the secret history of July 13, 1977! It doesn’t just tie into an actual historical event, it causes an actual historical event. It also then directly ties into Summer of Sam then… I wonder if you could cut the entire movie into “Hunters” and just have it be a subplot. The Nazis read more
Hunters (2020) s01e09 – The Great Ole Nazi Cookout of ’77
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
“Hunters” must’ve had the same thought I did about hammering in the point “Operation Paperclip” was a real thing as this one starts with another of the show’s overly stylized, retro PSA videos. But it doesn’t need the history lesson for this episode, because this episode is where everything read more
Hunters (2020) s01e10 – Eilu v’ Eilu
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
So when I thought “Hunters” was going to use the tenth episode to set up next season… turns out I was mistaken. There’s some setup for next season, complete with some betrayals and cast changes and very big surprise surprises, but it’s mostly a resolution to this season. To things the show read more
All Rise (2019) s01e17 – I Love You, You’re Perfect, I Think
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
Despite a forced start with Jessica Camacho and roomie and BFF Lindsay Mendez going hiking in some canyon before work and not finding a body, with some particularly forced angst from Camacho regarding boyfriend J. Alex Brinson declaring his love for her, the episode works out to be one of “All Ris read more
All Rise (2019) s01e18 – The Tale of Three Arraignments
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 18, 2020
I think I know “All Rise” continuity better than the writers because when they introduce previously unmentioned Third Musketeer Ryan Michelle Bathe (she went to law school with Simone Missick and Wilson Bethel), they bend the backstory about Missick and Bethel knowing each other as kids. Or they read more
Train to Busan (2016, Yeon Sang-ho)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 17, 2020
The middle of Train to Busan is excellent. The first act is iffy, the ending is forced, but the middle is where the film excels. It’s where director Yeon just gets to do action, not getting slowed down with the humanity of it all (which he’s uneven on), and just executes these breathtaking action read more