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The Stop Button
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Incisive film reviews. Titles range from silents to modern, avant-garde and blockbuster, non-English and so on.
- Added on: Jan 19th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
An Alan Smithee Podcast Episode 30: Slap Shot (1977, George Roy Hill) / Cruising (1980, William Friedkin)
This week on An Alan Smithee Podcast, we apparently continue our Queer Film Studies program with the most notorious and most quickly forgotten Hollywood movie ever made about gay men, and a not-very-gay movie which nonetheless contains jokes about ho...
An Alan Smithee Podcast Episode 29: The Bank Dick (1940, Edward F. Cline) / The Beach (2000, Danny Boyle)
This week on An Alan Smithee Podcast, the great W.C. Fields makes a grand return and Leonardo DiCaprio does some dopey navel gazing. The Bank Dick like many Fields pictures is the story of a man who never meant anyone a bit of harm, whom the whole wo...
Terminator Salvation (2009, Joseph McGinty Nichol), the director’s cut
Ok, no joke, what idiot thought adding Christian Bale to Terminator 4 was a good idea? Was it McG? Without the dumb connection to the previous films–if it had just been the adventures of Anton Yelchin’s Young Kyle Reese–it might have been fine....
The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
Oh, good grief. The Prestige is in IMDb’s top 250 movies? It’s so bad, I’m actually going to say something nice about Christopher Nolan in a second here. I’ve never heard of source novelist Christopher Priest and no one I know has ever mentio...
Episode 28: The Stepfather (1987, Joseph Ruben) / Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996, Alan Smithee and Kevin Yagher).
ALL NEW. From the people who brought you “An Alan Smithee Podcast”…More of the night WE came home and watched horror movies for Halloween. This week we observe a couple of strict disciplinarians doing their thing in their own special ways. The...
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992, Anthony Hickox)
Hellraiser III is one of the first “horror” movies I’ve seen where they seemed concerned with action figure tie-ins, with the Cenobites having gimmicks (they shoot CDs, blow fire and so on). It’s also one of those absurd movies set in New Yor...
A very well presented film review blog. I can't say I agree with all the reviews but they are all well written and points are well made. You can tell these reviews are written by someone that is very knowledgeable about film.
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