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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Bachelorette”

Posted January 24, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> 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 by Helen Hunt, came out of nowhere to win a huge $6M […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Walking Dead”

Posted March 19, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> But first–a nod to the sly marketing department at AMC, which cleverly lampooned its own predicament of trying to persuade at least some of the hordes of WALKING DEAD fans to stay tuned to the network next week for a very different show.  The result was a pair of lighthearted promos for Mad Men […]

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “The LA Complex”

Posted April 25, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> THE LA COMPLEX:  Tuesdays 9PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… By CW standards, THE LA COMPLEX is close to gritty realism, which is to say it’s a shade less glossy than 90210 and Gossip Girl.  Set in a downscale version of the kind of apartment building/motel familiar to anyone who watched […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”

Posted July 27, 2011 by Mitch Salem

    MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale   Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them.  In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than in a few special categories like Documentary and Foreign Film), it needs a theatrical release in […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Carnage”

Posted November 6, 2011 by Mitch Salem

  CARNAGE:  Watch It At Home – Polanski and All-Star Cast Miss the Bullseye   The trick about CARNAGE, which is based on the Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, is that despite its pedigree, and the big names usually associated with it, it’s more of a game than a revelation.  The […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”

Posted May 4, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  THE AVENGERS:  Worth A Ticket – A Fun Summer Movie, No More Or Less   It’s easy to forget that THE AVENGERS is, you know, a movie.  It’s perhaps the ultimate example of corporate intellectual property, bioengineered years in advance of its production by Marvel and that company’s recent owner Disney, like the spawn […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lola Versus”

Posted June 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

LOLA VERSUS:  Watch It At Home – An Unmemorable Woman   LOLA VERSUS‘ ambition is pretty clear:  it wants to be the 2012 version of Paul Mazursky’s 1978 comedy-drama AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, which is to say covering all the bases except the “married” part.  We meet Lola (Greta Gerwig) on her 29th birthday, and she […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIES: The Dark Knight Trilogy and the Art of the Long Con

Posted July 22, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Warning:  this piece will discuss details of the storyline of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES as well as the other Batman films.  GIANT SPOILERS WILL ABOUND; proceed at your own risk. Christopher Nolan is remarkable among the great directors of action films–Steven Spielberg, David Lean, James Cameron, John Ford, certainly Michael Bay–in that while working […]

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