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The Witcher (2019) s01e02 – Four Marks
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 22, 2019
Another episode another main character… this time introducing peasant girl Anya Chalotra, who’s got magical powers. She’s got a spinal birth abnormality, leading to a pretty big hump and something going on with her jaw. She’s hated by all—including her father (who’s half elf and so it’s read more
All Rise (2019) s01e11 – The Joy From Oz
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 21, 2019
Does the Los Angeles court really have a bring your kids to work day? I’m less engaged with the dramatics of “All Rise,” which has Wilson Bethel hemming and hawing over whether or not to help dad Tony Denison with his upcoming trial or just abandon him and Simone Missick having to defend herself read more
Watchmen (2019) s01e06 – This Extraordinary Being
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 21, 2019
If it were my choice, I’d stop watching Watchmen: The HBO Event Series with this episode. Unfortunately I’m watching it as a social thing so I can’t get out of it. I suppose I could sleep through the rest, but then I wouldn’t be able to shit on it in a post. Because this episode is where Watchmen read more
Eve Stranger (2019) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 21, 2019
Eve Stranger feels a little retro. Lead Eve is a woman who only can remember the last week before her memory resets. She’s an assassin or something. Some kind of mercenary. Her mission this issue is shockingly unimportant; the story skips from her getting normalized in her situation and to the mis read more
Nobody’s Fool (1994, Robert Benton)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 20, 2019
Nobody’s Fool takes place during a particularly busy December for protagonist Paul Newman. He’s got a lot going on all at once, but mostly the reappearance of son Dylan Walsh and family. They’re in town at the beginning for Thanksgiving, but Walsh’s marriage is in a troubled state—we’re read more
The Mandalorian (2019) s01e07 – The Reckoning
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 20, 2019
This episode feels like old home week—even though “The Mandalorian” is only on episode seven, it’s been in the weeds for three episodes so even the promise of Carl Weathers (who’s no better than before, though also no worse) at least reminds of when the show didn’t disappoint. Better, though read more
Lodger (2018) #2
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 20, 2019
I may have already read this issue of Lodger. I thought I’d only read (and mostly forgotten) the first issue, but this one seems very familiar. Going into it without having read the first issue recently and not really remembering the setup—it’s about some white guy named Dante who travels around read more
The Stringbags (2020)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 19, 2019
When I saw the announcement for The Stringbags, after the obvious glee at a new Garth Ennis comic, the publisher stood out; publisher Dead Reckoning is the graphic novel imprint of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Naval Institute Press. So war comics but for war history enthusiasts, which is about the o read more
Superstore (2015) s01e06 – Secret Shopper
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 19, 2019
This episode very nicely balances the sitcom potential of corporate sending a secret shopper to spy on the cast as they work with some character development on leads America Ferrera and Ben Feldman. Feldman has just aced a store policy exam, which he can’t stop bragging about, aggravating superviso read more
C.H.U.D. (1984, Douglas Cheek)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 18, 2019
The only name I recognized during C.H.U.D.’s opening titles—after the more obvious names in the cast—was casting director Bonnie Timmermann. Timmermann’s an A tier casting director; C.H.U.D. is a B movie with a lower A movie cast (I mean, John Heard and Daniel Stern are both capable of fine read more
Black Hammer: Age of Doom (2018) #8
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 18, 2019
I’m not sure if I’m caught up on Black Hammer: Age of Doom. I might be one issue behind. I know the big reveal, but I don’t know if I missed one since. This issue is apparently a new arc—not really a jumping on point because, even though it’s accessible to new readers (the cast is starting read more
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (2019) #1
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 17, 2019
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen has fairly unsurpassable creator pedigree. Steve Lieber’s mainstream superhero outings are always visually delightful since he’s able to infuse a bit of Silver Age glee into his otherwise hyper-realistic (but still very artful) style. There’s this great page where read more
All Rise (2019) s01e10 – Dripsy
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 17, 2019
Lots of guest stars this episode—Tony Denison, Ileana Douglas (who brings so much energy to the show she ought to be added as a regular), familiar-faced Brian Howe, and then Dina Meyer for a scene. The episode’s about Simone Missick having to switch courtrooms due to a leak and then protect the read more
Lockout (2012, Steve Saint Leger and James Mather), the unrated version
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 16, 2019
The funny thing about Luc Besson getting sued over lockout and losing—to John Carpenter, who sued based on the film’s similarities to Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.—is, yes, the film rips off Carpenter’s Snake Plissken duet, but it also rips off Die Hard and Die Hard 2 while seemingly read more
Evil (2019) s01e10 – 7 Swans a Singin’
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 15, 2019
This episode of “Evil” has a particular creative pedigree. Nineties neo-noir wunderkind (albeit flash in the pan) director John Dahl. Eighties and nineties sci-fi guy Rockne S. O'Bannon scripts. Seeing either of their names in the credits for “Evil” just tells of careers gone wrong; seeing read more
Fumetti is never a good idea
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 15, 2019
I love design. I’m just not good at it; I don’t have fine motor enough to draw, I’m colorblind-ish, I don’t know code. But I love design. Hence the new theme on the site, which chases that pre-Bush “Atlantic Monthly” era of youthful memory, and then “Harpers” until… I don’t remember read more
The Mandalorian (2019) s01e06 – The Prisoner
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 14, 2019
It is a dark time for “The Adventures of Baby Yoda.” Second lackluster episode in as many weeks, with the show creators really thinking anyone cares about the adventures of “Mando the Mandalorian” Pedro Pascal when he’s not being an adorable dad with Baby Yoda. This episode’s director, Rick read more
Niagara (1953, Henry Hathaway)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 14, 2019
Niagara has some noir-ish elements to it—femme fatale wife Marilyn Monroe stepping out on war veteran husband Joseph Cotten—but it’s not about the darkness, it’s about the light. And its location shooting. Niagara takes full advantage of the falls, not just for scenery but for multiple story read more
Watchmen (2019) s01e05 – Little Fear of Lightning
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 13, 2019
Everyone gets everything they want. I wanted a Tim Blake Nelson “Watchmen” episode. And for my sins, they gave me one. Turns out Nelson was in New York for the giant squid attack; as a youth he looked like a cheaper, slightly nerdier Tom Holland and was a Jehovah’s Witness out to preach last minute read more
Alien: Harvest (2019, Benjamin Howdeshell)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 12, 2019
Alien: Harvest operates at that all too familiar intersection of bad and stupid. It’s a stupid idea badly executed, though it’s not clear whose at fault for each. For instance, the short is about four survivors on a space ship trying to get the lifeboat before the ship blows up in seven (or eight) read more