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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019, Tim Miller)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 16, 2020
Terminator: Dark Fate is the fourth irrelevant Terminator 2 sequel. It’s not the worst of them, it’s not the best of them. But the poor rights owners just can’t seem to figure out how to franchise and Arnold Schwarzenegger just can’t say no. If there’s a Terminator 7 in a couple years… Arnold read more
Hunters (2020) s01e06 – (Ruth 1:16)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 15, 2020
This episode opens with what seems like a dream sequence for Tiffany Boone, who outside getting to have a giant afro and an occasionally acknowledged daughter, doesn’t have a character. Not really. She gets home from her shootout with the rest of the “Hunters,” covered in blood (not hers), and read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e07 – Mr. Parker’s Cul-De-Sac
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 15, 2020
Mr. Parker’s Cul-De-Sac is an exemplar of “Legends of Tomorrow.” Writers Keto Shimizu and James Eagan provide a great script—just the right amount of subplots, just the right pace—and the cast is outstanding. The episode opens on a red herring to get things moving. In the Wild West, Adam Tsekhman read more
Jurassic World (2015, Colin Trevorrow)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 14, 2020
If I had to describe a feature of Jurassic World as saddest… I might find myself hard-pressed. There aren’t a lot of possibilities—worst, dumbest, cheapest, silliest, probably some others… but saddest is something different. When the film takes a pointless detour through the original visitor read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e08 – Broken Pieces
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 13, 2020
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon is writing solo again this episode and, I mean, there are some bad scenes but the cringe factor is gone. Of course “Picard” is going to have poorly written and acted scenes, what else would it have; there’s no surprise in them anymore. This episode has Picard read more
The Punisher Presents Barracuda (2007)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 13, 2020
Barracuda is one of Garth Ennis’s… what shall we call them… NC-17 action comedy limited series. He’s got a bunch of them at Vertigo, a few a handful of other places. The difference with Barracuda is it’s for Marvel (it’s the only Punisher MAX spin-off, which is something since Ennis loved read more
48 Hrs. (1982, Walter Hill)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 12, 2020
About seventy minutes into 48 Hrs., Nick Nolte apologizes to Eddie Murphy for the racial slurs he’s been calling him since Murphy showed up in the movie. Nolte’s just doing his job, he explains, “keeping him down,” which is an unintentionally honest moment about cops and Black men. Murphy nods read more
Hunters (2020) s01e05 – At Night, All Birds are Black
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 11, 2020
I feel like “Hunters” needs a real disclaimer to explain while the show itself is fictional, the U.S. government really did import a bunch of Nazis to the United States and turned them into citizens and paid to keep them quiet and happy and fat just so we could beat the Russians to the moon or what read more
A Terrible Night (1896, Georges Méliès)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 11, 2020
A Terrible Night had me exclaiming, “Holy shit,” when the giant bug appeared. Or when it started moving. I’m not sure if it’s always in the shot. I’m resisting the urge to go and check. The short is short—a minute—and one of director Méliès single shot films. He appears in the film as read more
Hunters (2020) s01e03 – While Visions Of Safta Danced In His Head
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 10, 2020
Maybe it’s just knowing Logan Lerman started in a YA franchise attempt (he was Percy Jackson) or because he’s got the dagger in his hand during the awesome opening titles every episode, but I wasn’t expecting him to have a whole “I feel super-guilty about killing these Nazis who are trying to read more
Hunters (2020) s01e04 – The Pious Thieves
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 10, 2020
The best part of this episode is Dylan Baker getting pissed off Lena Olin is cutting him out of the Nazi plans and scheming to get back into them. Baker’s stunt-casting, more so than even Pacino (who, playing a Jewish Holocaust survivor in old age is the heaviest lifting Pacino’s had to do in a read more
Hunters (2020) s01e02 – The Mourner’s Kaddish
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 9, 2020
The important series story development this episode is it turns out Logan Lerman isn’t okay with torturing and killing Nazis hiding in the United States. He’s still the same softie as in the first episode when he thought Darth Vader probably wasn’t all evil and didn’t, you know, kill a bunch read more
The Witch: Subversion (2018, Park Hoon-jung)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 9, 2020
About halfway through The Witch: Subversion, I wondered why they’d opened with a flashback showing presumably chid witch Kim Ha-na escaping from her government “doctors.” The prologue introduces evil scientist lady Jo Min-soo and her chief fixer Park Hee-soon, it introduces the secret castle-like read more
Dead End (1937, William Wyler)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 8, 2020
If you tilt to just the right angle, for a while you can see Dead End as the tale of three people from a poor neighborhood and how life has worked out for them as they got closer to their thirties. Humphrey Bogart grew from a “not too bad” young punk to a public enemy number one, infamous for killi read more
Batman: Dead End (2003, Sandy Collora)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 7, 2020
Batman: Dead End goes far in validating the idea of cosplay as successful costuming for film—well, not Andrew Koenig’s Joker—but definitely the Batman outfit. Costume designer Michael MacFarlane, cinematographer Vincent E. Toto, and director Collora do figure out a way to do a “comics accurate” read more
Hunters (2020) s01e01 – In the Belly of the Whale
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 7, 2020
“Hunters” fully realizes the potential of a popular entertainment revenge action-drama. There’s the Marathon Man-esque scene—not a Nazi dentist scene but a Nazi toy shop owner (a perfect Kenneth Tigar; “Hunters” seems like it’s going to be way too good at casting its Nazis)—but it ends read more
Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e07 – Nepenthe
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 6, 2020
This episode of “Picard” has a Vulcan in cool sunglasses, who non-consensually mind melds, which used to be a thing, and talks about 300 gigabytes of data (hashtag details), a Romulan in a Battlefield Earth fighter jet, discount Han Solo sucking on a cigar, a 23rd century Alexa, the Black woman read more
Sphere (1998, Barry Levinson)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 6, 2020
Sphere is not a justifiable use of eighty million dollars. I don’t think you could justify spending a dollar to rent a copy to watch, much less eighty million of them to make the thing. The big problem is the script. Whatever Kurt Wimmer (ominously credited with “adaptation”), Stephen Hauser, read more
We’re With the Army Now (1943, Jean Negulesco)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 5, 2020
We’re With the Army Now is somewhat inexplicably a rarity. It’s a Warner Bros. “training short” for the Army (during World War II) but in the public domain. It’s got no IMDb entry, no Google results outside a citation from Doug McClelland’s Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces book… read more
Card Party (1896, Georges Méliès)
The Stop Button Posted by on Mar 4, 2020
Card Party runs a minute. Three guys sitting outside at a table, drinking wine, playing cards. It’s a family affair for director Méliès (who’s one of the card players), with his brother playing another of them. There aren’t any credits and apparently the third player’s identity is lost to read more