THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Contraband”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”
The 2nd season of HELL ON WHEELS was different, and perhaps somewhat better, than its first. (Behind the scenes, experienced producer John Shiban was brought on to showrun with series creators Joe and Tony Gayton.) I...
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: “Battleship”
BATTLESHIP: Not Even For Free – Watch a Transformers DVD Instead For about half an hour, BATTLESHIP could fool you into thinking it’s not the movie you were expecting it to be. It beg...
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...
PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Last Resort”
LAST RESORT: Thursday 8PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert The strangest new show on any network this season may be LAST RESORT, created and written by the man behind The Shield, Shawn Ryan, with Karl Gajdusek. The pro...
THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?
> Watch It At Home: That’s MR. Spielberg To You JJ Abrams’ SUPER 8 is the Beatlemania of Steven Spielberg movies. Abrams is no doubt absolutely genuine in his reverence for classics from the 1970...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Amazing Spider-Man”
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Watch It At Home – Not So Amazing Part of the unwritten suspension of disbelief deal we have with the movie studios is that although we know they’re going to constantly tell u...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grimm”
Although both fairy-tale inspired dramas that were introduced to network TV last fall have been renewed for 2d seasons, there’s no comparison in quality between Once Upon A Time and GRIMM. Once has created a capt...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battle Los Angeles”
Watch it at home. The deadliest weapon unleashed in BATTLE LOS ANGELES is its barrage of war-movie cliches. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but there’s this rag-tag group of Marines, led by a hard...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Nikita”
NIKITA: Friday 9PM on CW WHERE WE WERE: Vanquishing Division. Percy is finally, truly dead, Amanda is gone, and Nikita (Maggie Q) and her cohorts–lover and now fiance Michael (Shane West), protege Alex (Lynds...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Grimm”
GRIMM: Monday 9PM thru Sept 10; Friday 9PM starting Sept 14 on NBC – Worth A Look WHERE WE WERE: Meeting Mom. Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) is a Portland homicide detective who’s also a “...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Dark Knight Rises”
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Worth A Ticket – The Saga That Rewrote Superhero Movies Goes Out With A Weighty Bang Christopher Nolan likes his intricate, novelistic plotting. You remember the portion of The Dark Knight wher...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Guard”
THE GUARD – Worth A Ticket: The Art of Performance, Crispy and Well-Done I don’t know that there’s an actor in movies today more fun to watch than Brendan Gleeson. Gleeson is probably best kn...
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...