The Stop Button Posted by 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

The Stop Button Posted by 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

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

The Stop Button Posted by on February 11, 2019

I had this little post in mind about how I don’t see our cats as children as much as these adorable and weird people you have around. I’m not sure what the human correlation would be, but even with Shaz, who we’ve had since she was a (feral) kitten, I...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 10, 2019

Chungking Express has two parts. First part is lonely young plainclothes cop Kaneshiro Takeshi counting down the days to his birthday, which is also thirty days since his girlfriend of five years dumped him. Simultaneously, sort of middle person drug trafficker Brigitte Lin loses her latest batch o   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 10, 2019

Chungking Express has two parts. First part is lonely young plainclothes cop Kaneshiro Takeshi counting down the days to his birthday, which is also thirty days since his girlfriend of five years dumped him. Simultaneously, sort of middle person drug trafficker Brigitte Lin loses her latest batch o   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 10, 2019

Chungking Express has two parts. First part is lonely young plainclothes cop Kaneshiro Takeshi counting down the days to his birthday, which is also thirty days since his girlfriend of five years dumped him. Simultaneously, sort of middle person drug trafficker Brigitte Lin loses her latest batch o   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 10, 2019

Chungking Express has two parts. First part is lonely young plainclothes cop Kaneshiro Takeshi counting down the days to his birthday, which is also thirty days since his girlfriend of five years dumped him. Simultaneously, sort of middle person drug trafficker Brigitte Lin loses her latest batch o   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 9, 2019

I suffer from the payday shopping syndrome. Got some cash, want to get something new and shiny. It’s not the best thing, but it’s far better than spending too much credit, which isn’t payday dependent. Yesterday I finally bit the Ulysses bullet and didn’t just download the app for its...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 8, 2019

The Trouble with Harry is very cute. It’s fine, the film’s intentionally cute, but it’s also somewhat frustrating. With the exception of the glorious Technicolor exteriors of Vermont leaves, director Hitchcock and photographer Robert Burks don’t do anything particularly interesting. John Michael Ha   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 8, 2019

The Trouble with Harry is very cute. It’s fine, the film’s intentionally cute, but it’s also somewhat frustrating. With the exception of the glorious Technicolor exteriors of Vermont leaves, director Hitchcock and photographer Robert Burks don’t do anything particularly interesting. John Michael Ha   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 8, 2019

The Trouble with Harry is very cute. It’s fine, the film’s intentionally cute, but it’s also somewhat frustrating. With the exception of the glorious Technicolor exteriors of Vermont leaves, director Hitchcock and photographer Robert Burks don’t do anything particularly interesting. John Michael Ha   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 8, 2019

I made my 2019 blogging decisions, including the Comics Fondle one, which I didn’t know I hadn’t made. I’m not doing short posts on it anymore. I’m going to do as deep of a dive as I did on Love and Rockets on any issue. I have no idea what...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 8, 2019

The Trouble with Harry is very cute. It’s fine, the film’s intentionally cute, but it’s also somewhat frustrating. With the exception of the glorious Technicolor exteriors of Vermont leaves, director Hitchcock and photographer Robert Burks don’t do anything particularly interesting. John Michael Ha   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 6, 2019

Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 6, 2019

Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 6, 2019

Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 6, 2019

Technically, Moon Knight is awesome. Excellent composition, photography, editing. Director Butera also edits, also handles some of the photography. Unfortunately he also wrote the script, which is terrible. Moon Knight is so terrible outside those technical qualities–sadly, costuming is not one of   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 5, 2019

Some time ago I added an “Index by rating” page on The Stop Button. I don’t add new features to the site based on things I’d used, I add them based on whether or not the idea strikes me at the time. There’s a bunch of unpublished and deleted features...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 4, 2019

Sensitivity Training is… an easy (but not in a pejorative way) comedy with winning (but not in a sarcastic way) lead performances. It’s never daring, but it has some good laughs. It’s better than middle of the road but it there’s not much exciting about it. Director Finell does a...   read more