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The Guest (2014, Adam Wingard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 30, 2019
For most of The Guest, the script doesn’t matter. Either the acting or the filmmaking carry the scene. The first act is this fairly standard, fairly obvious—albeit beautifully produced—drama about an all American family in crisis after the death of the oldest son, a soldier, killed in action in read more
The Guest (2014, Adam Wingard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 30, 2019
For most of The Guest, the script doesn’t matter. Either the acting or the filmmaking carry the scene. The first act is this fairly standard, fairly obvious—albeit beautifully produced—drama about an all American family in crisis after the death of the oldest son, a soldier, killed in action in read more
Supergirl (2015) s05e07 – Tremors
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 29, 2019
In an incredible turn of events Mitch Pileggi as the big bad—Leviathan—is actually kind of fun. Pileggi’s a millions of years old alien (he was around to see the dinosaurs get it) who for some reason has hung out on Earth and run a secret society. It’s not clear why. It’s also not clear why read more
Supergirl (2015) s05e07 – Tremors
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 29, 2019
In an incredible turn of events Mitch Pileggi as the big bad—Leviathan—is actually kind of fun. Pileggi’s a millions of years old alien (he was around to see the dinosaurs get it) who for some reason has hung out on Earth and run a secret society. It’s not clear why. It’s also not clear why read more
Deep Blue Sea (1999, Renny Harlin)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 28, 2019
Deep Blue Sea is ten years too late. I knew the movie was about genetically modified sharks gone wild but the people are also stranded at the bottom of the ocean in a habitat thing. Deep Blue Sea isn’t just an amped-up Jaws movie with terrible CGI and a lousy cast, it’s a postscript in the great read more
Deep Blue Sea (1999, Renny Harlin)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 28, 2019
Deep Blue Sea is ten years too late. I knew the movie was about genetically modified sharks gone wild but the people are also stranded at the bottom of the ocean in a habitat thing. Deep Blue Sea isn’t just an amped-up Jaws movie with terrible CGI and a lousy cast, it’s a postscript in the great read more
Deep Blue Sea (1999, Renny Harlin)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 28, 2019
Deep Blue Sea is ten years too late. I knew the movie was about genetically modified sharks gone wild but the people are also stranded at the bottom of the ocean in a habitat thing. Deep Blue Sea isn’t just an amped-up Jaws movie with terrible CGI and a lousy cast, it’s a postscript in the great read more
All Rise (2019) s01e08 – Maricela and the Desert
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 28, 2019
There’s a road trip to Vegas this episode, which feels like a trope. It’s not a particularly engaging Vegas road trip, possibly because Wilson Bethel and J. Alex Brinson don’t have any chemistry together, possibly because the whole thing hinges on Brinson having to talk to a sheriff’s deputy read more
Deep Blue Sea (1999, Renny Harlin)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 28, 2019
Deep Blue Sea is ten years too late. I knew the movie was about genetically modified sharks gone wild but the people are also stranded at the bottom of the ocean in a habitat thing. Deep Blue Sea isn’t just an amped-up Jaws movie with terrible CGI and a lousy cast, it’s a postscript in the great read more
All Rise (2019) s01e08 – Maricela and the Desert
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 28, 2019
There’s a road trip to Vegas this episode, which feels like a trope. It’s not a particularly engaging Vegas road trip, possibly because Wilson Bethel and J. Alex Brinson don’t have any chemistry together, possibly because the whole thing hinges on Brinson having to talk to a sheriff’s deputy read more
Evil (2019) s01e08 – 2 Fathers
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 27, 2019
So this episode has—you guessed it—two dads in it. Well, it’s probably got more than two dads in it, but only two where it’s important they’re dads. The first dad is Vondie Curtis-Hall as Mike Colter’s dad. They estranged because it’s TV and there’s no way a guy’s not estranged with read more
Evil (2019) s01e08 – 2 Fathers
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 27, 2019
So this episode has—you guessed it—two dads in it. Well, it’s probably got more than two dads in it, but only two where it’s important they’re dads. The first dad is Vondie Curtis-Hall as Mike Colter’s dad. They estranged because it’s TV and there’s no way a guy’s not estranged with read more
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 26, 2019
On one hand, with the Wojciech Kilar score, Bram Stoker’s Dracula can get away with just about anything. On the other, with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves playing leads… well, it needs something to help it get away with anything. It helps neither Ryder or Reeves are the actual star of the film. Neit read more
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 26, 2019
On one hand, with the Wojciech Kilar score, Bram Stoker’s Dracula can get away with just about anything. On the other, with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves playing leads… well, it needs something to help it get away with anything. It helps neither Ryder or Reeves are the actual star of the film. Neit read more
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 26, 2019
On one hand, with the Wojciech Kilar score, Bram Stoker’s Dracula can get away with just about anything. On the other, with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves playing leads… well, it needs something to help it get away with anything. It helps neither Ryder or Reeves are the actual star of the film. Neit read more
The Mandalorian (2019) s02e03 – The Sin
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 26, 2019
All of Star Wars, all the movies, all the cartoons, books, comics, games, toys, socks, The Holiday Special, underwear, blankets—all of it—has been building to this episode of “The Mandalorian,” where they’re finally able to make Boba Fett adorable. Yes, Baby Yoda is adorable but of course read more
The Mandalorian (2019) s02e03 – The Sin
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 26, 2019
All of Star Wars, all the movies, all the cartoons, books, comics, games, toys, socks, The Holiday Special, underwear, blankets—all of it—has been building to this episode of “The Mandalorian,” where they’re finally able to make Boba Fett adorable. Yes, Baby Yoda is adorable but of course read more
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 26, 2019
On one hand, with the Wojciech Kilar score, Bram Stoker’s Dracula can get away with just about anything. On the other, with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves playing leads… well, it needs something to help it get away with anything. It helps neither Ryder or Reeves are the actual star of the film. Neit read more
Incomplete thoughts
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 25, 2019
The Internet has fatally wounded big c criticism. Big c criticism got its first major wounding in the mid-nineties with Independence Day. Then it got hit again with Armageddon. So it was down and bleeding and couldn’t defend itself—if it’d known how—for the death blow of social networking. Also, read more
Savage (2018, Cui Siwei)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 24, 2019
Savage is not savage. It’s got some violence, some of it rough, and it’s got some mean bad guys, but it’s never savage. I mean, unless it’s supposed to be referring to hero—more than protagonist or lead—Chang Chen. He beats up some suspects pretty bad at the beginning because he’s mad read more