THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Contraband”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “Fast & Furious 6”
It’s almost unheard-of for a franchise to need 5 installments to hit its stride, but that was the case with 2011’s Fast Five. After kicking around with its first, moderately successful quartet in various lo...
THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Banshee”
BANSHEE: Friday 10PM on Cinemax Alan Ball’s name is the one most often thrown about in connection with the new Cinemax series BANSHEE, and that’s understandable, what with him being the creator of True Bloo...
THE SKED MIDSEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Revolution”
REVOLUTION: Monday 10PM on NBC Of all the mysteries that surround the events of NBC’s REVOLUTION, the one that definitely won’t be answered this season is how the show would rate if it didn’t have T...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Banshee”
As a series, Cinemax’s BANSHEE has been notable for the sheer knock-down, drag-out-edness of its action scenes. One episode started with a bungled robbery which led to a chase that must have lasted 10 minutes, an...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS: Not At Any Price – Audiences Won’t Live Happily Ever After HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is mostly terrible, but say this for it: it’s not terrible like anyt...
PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CW’s “Arrow”
ARROW: Wednesday 8PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On It’s Comic-Con week in San Diego, and while we here don’t participate in that particular hullabaloo (waiting for hours just to see a trailer that’...
THE SKED: “Justified” Proves It
> Here’s some welcome if unsurprising news: F/X has renewed JUSTIFIED for a 4th season. The show, now at the midpoint of Season 3 (the finale airs April 10) drew a 0.9 last week in 18-49s, which isn’t Wa...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Act of Valor”
ACT OF VALOR: Watch It At Home – Fast Forward When They’re Not Shooting If there were a genuine national military crisis, and a small group of expert soldiers were needed to protect t...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin”
And then this happened. With BATMAN & ROBIN, the franchise that had been reclaimed for adults by Tim Burton in 1989 was turned back over to children (and not bright children) by Joel Schumacher in 1997. Schumacher ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Immortals”
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos&#...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Contraband”
CONTRABAND: Worth A Ticket – Working-Class Thriller CONTRABAND is a B movie, but oddly enough, that’s one thing in short supply these days. Action movies in modern Hollywood usually c...