THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Guard”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”
THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Fringe”
FRINGE: Friday 9PM on FOX WHERE WE WERE: The present, or at least a version of it where our Earth exists in multiple parallel near-duplicate dimensions, and “Observers” from the future make sure everythin...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”
IN TIME: Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack. Niccol’s ideas are genuinely im...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”
FALLING SKIES: Sunday 10PM on TNT FALLING SKIES is, for TNT, the series Syfy needs and doesn’t seem to be able to pull off. As futuristic adventure sagas go, there’s nothing innovative about it, or even s...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Colombiana”
COLOMBIANA – Not Even For Free: Even the Body Count Is Dull For a movie from the Luc Besson House of Action, COLOMBIANA is surprisingly listless and dispirited. Besson first came to prominence as a direc...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight”
If THE DARK KNIGHT had no superhero or comic book trappings–if The Joker were scarred but not hideously made up, and Batman were a bit lower-tech and merely disguised rather than wearing a cowl and cape–Chris...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”
FALLING SKIES – Sunday 9PM on TNT WHERE WE WERE: On our way into a spaceship. The aliens have arrived, and contrary to what Executive Producer Steven Spielberg used to tell us, they’re not nice at ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL: Worth A Ticket – Routine But Spectacular With MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, Brad Bird makes the very unusual transition from animation auteur...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Exit Strategy”
>See A Word About Busted Pilots On paper, EXIT STRATEGY looked like one of the hot FOX pilots this past season, a high-profile (Ethan Hawke’s first TV project) espionage thriller in the vein of 24 that could inherit that ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”
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 pro...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Savages”
SAVAGES: Watch It At Home – Great Book, OK Movie Don Winslow’s novel SAVAGES is one of the extraordinary reads of recent years. The plot may sound unremarkable–a mini-war is waged between a couple o...