The Stop Button

An appreciation of amusements.

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The Dead Girl (2006, Karen Moncrieff)

May 7th, 2007 No Comments

I had assumed, just because of the large cast, a Nashville approach for this film. However, frighteningly, I think it might have been inspired by Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity (the film, not the short story collection). The stories are all independent, more about their central characters than about the event tying them together, in this […]

Larger Than Life (1996, Howard Franklin)

May 7th, 2007 No Comments

Larger Than Life is a different film today than it was ten years ago–back then, I remember, it was a big deal Matthew McConaughey starred in the film. There were reshoots to add more of him. Today, the film’s sold as a kid’s movie on DVD, which isn’t particularly appropriate, given a lot of the […]