The Stop Button Posted by on February 19, 2019

I was giving myself a twenty percent chance of getting through all the movies I wanted to get through over the weekend. The weekly Criterion Channel movie of the week thing didn’t happen because Criterion Channel did two movies of the week this last week (two Albert Finney pictures, as...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 18, 2019

Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; si   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 18, 2019

Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; si   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 18, 2019

Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; si   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 18, 2019

Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; si   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 17, 2019

I’m currently writing my first Summing Up post on the iPad with the Bluetooth keyboard thing. It’s working pretty well… one sentence into the post. I had this idea I could teach myself to type on the keyboard one-handed but the iPad isn’t auto correctly lower case i to capital...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 17, 2019

We’re caught up on TV shows so we tried three new shows last night. I find it odd I’ve got a TV-related project coming soon but I’m using Summing Up for this post. So hopefully I’ll at least get to some tangents. We did the first episodes for “Manifest,” “Russian...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 16, 2019

Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 16, 2019

Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 16, 2019

Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 16, 2019

Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 15, 2019

Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 15, 2019

Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 15, 2019

Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 15, 2019

Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 14, 2019

Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 14, 2019

Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 14, 2019

Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 14, 2019

Primrose Path gets fun fast. Given the film opens with nine year-old Joan Carroll stealing a neighbor’s tamales (instead of buying them) for her and her grandmother, Queenie Vassar, it sort of needs to be fun. Vassar’s the maternal grandmother, not related to despondently alcoholic dad Miles Mander   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 12, 2019

Sorry to Bother You has four endings. Well, more like three and a half. They’re all good enough endings, except the last one, which is truncated and just reminds how iffy the entire third act has been. Until the third act, the film is going strong. Underdeveloped but affable lead...   read more