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Star Trek: Picard (2020) s01e01 – Remembrance
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 25, 2020
The most peculiar thing about “Picard” is how much it plays like a sequel to Star Trek: Nemesis. Not because Tom Hardy guests as Patrick Stewart’s unlikely Romulan clone or… wait, what else happened in that movie? Oh, yeah, Troi got mind raped… again. No Troi (Marina Sirtis) in this episode, read more
John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 25, 2020
John Wick is all right. It feels like if it’d been made in the nineties, it’d have been revolutionary. Instead, it uses all the revolutionary and not revolutionary film techniques since the nineties to make the ultimate in mainstream heavy metal neo-pulp, with a twist of seventies exploitation for read more
Bad Dreams (1988, Andrew Fleming)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 24, 2020
At the end of Bad Dreams, as GNR’s Sweet Child of Mine starts up over the end credits… I thought, at least director (and co-writer) Fleming has good taste in music. Turns out he didn’t want the song and a studio exec with a better ear put it in the film. Bummer. It would’ve been nice to be able read more
The Punisher (2004) #49, Widowmaker, Part 7 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2020
Bill Reinhold’s back on inks—solo—this issue. It doesn’t have to be Tom Palmer, it could be someone else, but it needs to be someone else because Medina and Reinhold completely botch the finish. Ennis is going for something—something confused, because there have been too many issues in the read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s05e02 – Meet the Legends
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2020
Good “Legends” is both bad and obvious, and obvious. When the show hits the right notes, it keeps ringing the bell through the end of the episode. Once an episode of “Legends” clicks, it stays in that higher gear. This first post-Crisis episode means there can be all sorts of new changes in read more
All Rise (2019) s01e13 – What the Bailiff Saw
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 23, 2020
So it looks like Peter MacNicol is going to be a regular guest star, which is fine. He exudes a lovable, not too problematic old white guy energy as Simone Missick’s new judge pal. He shows up for a single scene, to talk to her about the case she’s got going, then disappears again. I didn’t pay read more
The Punisher (2004) #48, Widowmaker, Part 6 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 22, 2020
Tom Palmer on inks this issue—he also did some of the previous issue’s inks; he makes Medina’s pencils look a lot more pensive. People are thinking, listening, far better than before. Even if maybe Palmer on inks just show off how Medina isn’t the right fit for the material. It’s mostly a read more
Becker (1998) s01e15 – Activate Your Choices
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 21, 2020
David Isaacs wrote this episode, which brings some immediate pluses. The jokes are funnier. Sometimes they’re a lot cheaper, but they’re always funny. And Saverio Guerra’s in the episode. Isaacs doesn’t give him much to do except be hilariously annoying, but it’s basically enough. If only read more
The Punisher (2004) #47, Widowmaker, Part 5 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 21, 2020
It’s not a light issue. There’s barely any Frank; he’s just sitting around and listening to sixth widow Jenny tell him her life story. She was a mafia princess. She got married off to a full-on psychopath who, on a good night, just beat and raped her. The other mob widows knew about it, lied to read more
Evil (2019) s01e12 – Justice x 2
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 20, 2020
There’s a lot going on in this episode of “Evil” but the only important thing—the only truly important thing—is it guest stars Gbenga Akinnagbe. It utterly wastes him in a “let’s not examine this too hard” plot about him being a radio comic in nineties Rwanda who encouraged the genocide. read more
Troop Zero (2019, Bert & Bertie)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 20, 2020
Troop Zero is heartwarming but not too heartwarming. It doesn’t promise the stars as much as it promises a gradual slide to fairness; it promises redemption to some but not the ones who really need it. It avoids any seriousness to instead provide consistent, constant entertainment. Often in the for read more
Grantchester (2014) s05e02
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 19, 2020
I consider myself fairly capable with British Isles accents; it’s always been undubbed Trainspotting or Full Monty for me; I figured out Ulysses on my own; I could watch “Monty Python” and understand them; but “Sinjin” actually being “St. John?” Whatever. I mean, I knew it had to be weird read more
Inherit the Viper (2019, Anthony Jerjen)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 19, 2020
Inherit the Viper is an unfortunately titled but acceptably mediocre crime drama about rural siblings Margarita Levieva, Josh Hartnett, and Owen Teague running an opioid business. Levieva’s the merciless boss, Hartnett’s the reluctant muscle, Teague’s the enthusiastic but uninvolved teenager. read more
Catch Me If You Can (2002, Steven Spielberg)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 18, 2020
Catch Me If You Can is a spectacular showcase for Leonardo DiCaprio. Unfortunately, the rest of the film doesn’t exactly rise up to meet him, not the filmmaking, not the writing, not his costars. With the exception of co-lead Tom Hanks, who’s a whole other thing, the direction, the writing, the read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s06e01 – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 17, 2020
Given how much work these Arrowverse crossover events make for the show’s creative teams—just imagine if they had to bother with good writing, better direction (though this episode isn’t too bad), and good guest stars—you’d think they wouldn’t have wasted twenty-percent of Crisis on Infinite read more
The Punisher (2004) #46, Widowmaker, Part 4 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 17, 2020
Ennis brings all the threads together this issue. Frank, the widows, the mystery woman, the cop. The cliffhanger resolve has Frank taking one to the chest. The issue opens with Frank thinking about how unlikely the house where the damsel widow has brought him seems like a front for a trafficking op read more
The Princess Comes Across (1936, William K. Howard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 16, 2020
The Princess Comes Across is an uneven mix of comedy and mystery. Too much mystery, too little comedy, noticeable lack of romance. The romance is an awkward afterthought in Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin, Don Hartman, and Frank Butler’s script (four screenwriters is probably too much even in 1936; read more
Arrow (2012) s08e08 – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 16, 2020
So. Confession time. During the harder-than-normal sci-fi opening to part the fourth of Crisis on Infinite Earths, I thought the crossover might have a chance. I thought if they split the first three into the one arc, then the second two into another… I thought it might work. For a few seconds in read more
The Punisher (2004) #45, Widowmaker, Part 3 (of 7)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 16, 2020
Lots of action this issue. Frank’s taking out of a convoy of mob cars—the first page has Medina and Reinhold doing photo-reference on James Gandolfini but the character never figures in later so it’s not The Punisher vs. The Sopranos—but there’s a catch. The widows have put their decoy damsel read more
Canceled (2019, Jimmy Caputo)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 15, 2020
Canceled has a great sense of humor. It ends on a knowing smile but then the end credits have a few knowing big laughs. It’s about five minutes of action, real-time, as two friends (Laura Sacchetti and Maria Scenna) try to console a third (Katrina Rossi) over the loss of her favorite TV show. The read more