THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/26/12
> AMERICAN IDOL‘s best days are behind it. FOX: Idol gave FOX an easy win for the night, but it continues to be 30% below last season, and last night dipped 0.3 from its first Thursday. It appears as though th...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “One For the Money”
ONE FOR THE MONEY: Not Even For Free – Another Heigl Misfire Movie stars are, make no mistake, trademarks. Consumers who invest in 2 hours of George Clooney or Will Smith expect the same kind of r...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Goats”
Virtually every screening at Sundance is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, and while these sessions can be informative and charming (although 3 questions that need never be asked again are How long did you shoot?...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Compliance”
> Sundance has a thriving Park City At Midnight program that features plenty of high-octane horror movies, but the most unnerving and disturbing film of this year’s festival may have been Craig Zobel’s COMPLIANCE, a...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/25/12
> Welcome back to Network Scorecard, where we consider the perplexing case of AMERICAN IDOL. FOX: It’s now clear that the biggest story of the 2011-12 television season is the slump in established reality-competitio...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Smashed”
James Ponsoldt’s SMASHED (not to be confused with NBC’s Smash), which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, is a new spin on a fairly old story. The concept goes back (at least) to 1962’s...
STATUETTE STAKES: Nomination Thoughts
> After what seemed as long as a presidential primary season, the Oscar nominations are finally here. What do they tell us? THE ARTIST Is Still The Film To Beat. There were plenty of surprises sprinkled throughout today’s...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Room 237”
> I write this as a fairly obsessive fan of Stanley Kubrick, back since I desperately wanted to see A Clockwork Orange in its original X-rated release but was too young to get in. So the very idea of ROOM 237, a feature-length ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Bachelorette”
> Although Sundance still has several days to go, and surprises could spring up at any time (yesterday The Surrogate, a drama with John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung who decides to lose his virginity to a sex therapist played...
Oscar Nominations
>We'll have some analysis later (good news: Extremely Loud! Margin Call for Screenplay! Bad news: no Michael Fassbender? No David Fincher?), but for now, here's a link to the full list of Oscar nominees: http://oscar.go...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Red Lights”
> Or if the title were a Jeopardy answer, the question would be: what should writer/director Rodrigo Cortes have paid attention to, before he typed “The End” on his script Red Lights wouldn’t have been a festi...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Liberal Arts”
> Josh Radnor’s writing/directing debut happythankyoumoreplease, which played Sundance a couple of years ago, was a promising, entertaining NY-set romantic comedy-drama that hailed from the Woody Allen division of indie f...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “For a Good Time, Call…”
> There’s a principled discussion to be had about whether the Sundance Film Festival should be featuring movies that are essentially low-budget Hollywood entertainments made outside the studio system. But that discussion ...