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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “The Outrun” & “Veni Vidi Vici”

THE OUTRUN (no distrib): Films about alcoholics and addicts in recovery are too numerous to count, and it’s easy to understand why. The stories offer a clear narrative path, usually with an inspirational destin...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

RUSTIN (Netflix – Nov. 17): The director and producer George C. Wolfe is a towering figure in American theater, but his films to date have been wobbly at worst (A Night in Rodanthe, You’re Not You) and stur...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good House,” “Where Is Anne Frank” & “Official Competition”

THE GOOD HOUSE (DreamWorks – TBD): By my count, it’s been two full decades since Sigourney Weaver was at the center of a feature film (that was Heartbreakers, where she shared the spotlight with Jennifer Lo...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

This was a Toronto Film Festival unlike any other, and not just because I “attended” it from the laptop in my house. Toronto has become an important stop on the road to the Academy Awards, with 9 of the pas...

by Mitch Salem

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”

DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT (Amazon): Despite some Christopher Nolan-esque splintering of time, Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is one of his more convention...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Feed The Beast”

FEED THE BEAST: Tuesday 10PM on AMC – Change the Channel There’s not much on the menu of AMC’s new FEED THE BEAST, which previewed tonight in advance of its regular timeslot debut on Tuesday. The sh...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “I Saw the Light”

Marc Abraham, for his second film as director (prior to that, he was a veteran producer), has chosen his second consecutive mid-20th-century biography, following 2008’s Flash of Genius with I SAW THE LIGHT, which p...

by Mitch Salem

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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “The Outrun” & “Veni Vidi Vici”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good House,” “Where Is Anne Frank” & “Official Competition”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Feed The Beast”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “I Saw the Light”

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