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The Reckless Moment (1949, Max Ophüls)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 19, 2019
The Reckless Moment is self-indulgent. But in a remarkable way. A remarkable and good way. Director Ophüls and star Joan Bennett both find a way to get at the core of the story, which is a very limited character study of Bennett. The film is occasionally fantastic and sensational—though never melod read more
The Punisher #16, Mother Russia, Part 4 (of 6)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 18, 2019
Just over halfway through the arc and Ennis does a bridging issue. It’s an all-action bridging issue, but a bridging issue. We find out exactly what the U.S.-funded terrorists on the plane are going to do, we find out what the Russian general’s little henchman is capable of doing, we get some groun read more
The Punisher #15, Mother Russia, Part 3 (of 6)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 17, 2019
The first page of the issue introduces the latest cast addition—six-year old Galina Stenkov. She’s in a nuclear missile silo with mean doctors trying to get her blood out so they can have the super-weapon. And then in walks Frank. Ennis interrupts their introduction with a one page check-in to the read more
The Punisher #14, Mother Russia, Part 2 (of 6)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 16, 2019
There’s so much Frank narration this issue. So much. It’s wonderful. Ennis is able to use the narration for some exposition, some texture, some humor. Not a lot of humor. He’s got Nick Fury around for humor. Frank’s narration humor is dryer; though maybe not more cynical than Fury’s. It’s read more
The Best of Enemies (2019, Robin Bissell)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 15, 2019
Chris Rock has a joke about waiting to see if the evening news—it’s an old joke—report on a crime is going to have a Black perpetrator or a White one, just so he (Rock, a Black man) can figure out if his white coworkers are going to ask him if he knew the perp (if he’s Black). In other words, read more
The Best of Enemies (2019, Robin Bissell)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 15, 2019
Chris Rock has a joke about waiting to see if the evening news—it’s an old joke—report on a crime is going to have a Black perpetrator or a White one, just so he (Rock, a Black man) can figure out if his white coworkers are going to ask him if he knew the perp (if he’s Black). In other words, read more
The Best of Enemies (2019, Robin Bissell)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 15, 2019
Chris Rock has a joke about waiting to see if the evening news—it’s an old joke—report on a crime is going to have a Black perpetrator or a White one, just so he (Rock, a Black man) can figure out if his white coworkers are going to ask him if he knew the perp (if he’s Black). In other words, read more
The Punisher #13, Mother Russia, Part 1 (of 6)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 15, 2019
Right away there’s something different about this issue; from page one. Penciller Dougie Braithwaite. Braithwaite is thrilled to be doing Punisher, you can tell from the detail—I still want to know what’s on the counter next to Frank in the opening scene, presumably a menu but who knows—and read more
The Best of Enemies (2019, Robin Bissell)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 15, 2019
Chris Rock has a joke about waiting to see if the evening news—it’s an old joke—report on a crime is going to have a Black perpetrator or a White one, just so he (Rock, a Black man) can figure out if his white coworkers are going to ask him if he knew the perp (if he’s Black). In other words, read more
Greta (2018, Neil Jordan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 12, 2019
Greta is exceedingly competent. It’s way too unimaginative, predictable, traditional, and restrained in the final third, but it’s always exceedingly competent at those things. Even after it’s clear top-billed Isabelle Huppert isn’t going to create a singular cinema villain and even after it’s read more
Greta (2018, Neil Jordan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 12, 2019
Greta is exceedingly competent. It’s way too unimaginative, predictable, traditional, and restrained in the final third, but it’s always exceedingly competent at those things. Even after it’s clear top-billed Isabelle Huppert isn’t going to create a singular cinema villain and even after it’s read more
Greta (2018, Neil Jordan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 12, 2019
Greta is exceedingly competent. It’s way too unimaginative, predictable, traditional, and restrained in the final third, but it’s always exceedingly competent at those things. Even after it’s clear top-billed Isabelle Huppert isn’t going to create a singular cinema villain and even after it’s read more
Greta (2018, Neil Jordan)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 12, 2019
Greta is exceedingly competent. It’s way too unimaginative, predictable, traditional, and restrained in the final third, but it’s always exceedingly competent at those things. Even after it’s clear top-billed Isabelle Huppert isn’t going to create a singular cinema villain and even after it’s read more
Charlotte and Her Lover (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 10, 2019
Somewhere around minute seven–of an unlucky thirteen–Charlotte and Her Lover's ending started to seem inevitable; predictability makes the last six minutes even more tiresome. Writer, director, and de facto lead Godard (he looped in the ranting monologue for onscreen lead Jean-Paul read more
Charlotte and Her Lover (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 10, 2019
Somewhere around minute seven–of an unlucky thirteen–Charlotte and Her Lover's ending started to seem inevitable; predictability makes the last six minutes even more tiresome. Writer, director, and de facto lead Godard (he looped in the ranting monologue for onscreen lead Jean-Paul read more
Charlotte and Her Lover (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 10, 2019
Somewhere around minute seven–of an unlucky thirteen–Charlotte and Her Lover's ending started to seem inevitable; predictability makes the last six minutes even more tiresome. Writer, director, and de facto lead Godard (he looped in the ranting monologue for onscreen lead Jean-Paul read more
Charlotte and Her Lover (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 10, 2019
Somewhere around minute seven–of an unlucky thirteen–Charlotte and Her Lover's ending started to seem inevitable; predictability makes the last six minutes even more tiresome. Writer, director, and de facto lead Godard (he looped in the ranting monologue for onscreen lead Jean-Paul read more
Tamaki and Valero-O’Connell’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 7, 2019
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is another of these YA graphic novels without any chapters or natural narrative breaks. The first time I came across one, I realized it was going to be a trend and yep, it’s a trend. The difference is last time it didn’t work, this time it works out perfectly. read more
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019, Jon Watts)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 6, 2019
Spider-Man: Far From Home spends so much of its runtime being a constant delight, the first sign of trouble passes. Something where director Watts needs to connect doesn’t connect, only it doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t seem like it needs to connect too hard. Then the third act is this read more
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019, Jon Watts)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 6, 2019
Spider-Man: Far From Home spends so much of its runtime being a constant delight, the first sign of trouble passes. Something where director Watts needs to connect doesn’t connect, only it doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t seem like it needs to connect too hard. Then the third act is this read more