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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “One Second,” “Wolf” & “Silent Night”

ONE SECOND (Neon – TBD): Zhang Yimou’s film was notoriously the subject of controversy with the Chinese government, which held it back from its originally scheduled film festival debut in 2019, and forced s...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “In the Earth” & “Knocking”

IN THE EARTH (Neon): After his foray into more commercial cinema with the Netflix remake of Rebecca that didn’t go very well, Ben Wheatley has returned to the stranger and more experimental style of his earlier f...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

HUMAN FACTORS: Is Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors intended as a political allegory? The married couple at its center are the German Jan (Mark Waschke) and the French Nina (Sabine Timoteo), and there’s a plo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Watchmen”

Damon Lindelof is fascinated by the elements of storytelling, sometimes to the detriment of the story itself. It was fitting that a motif of WATCHMEN, both in its Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons 1987 graphic novel version and ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Strain”

FX’s THE STRAIN is doing something that The Walking Dead and its cohorts in the undead genre won’t: telling a (more or less) coherent story from beginning to end, and exiting when it’s over. During ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “12 Monkeys”

Time-travel tales are everywhere on TV these days–Timeless, Making History, Time After Time and Frequency will join Legends of Tomorrow next season, and even Game of Thrones dabbled in the genre this year. But...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “This Is The End”

THIS IS THE END: Worth A Ticket – Apocalypse Right Now Imagine an dystopian mumblecore extravaganza populated mostly by the Judd Apatow stock company, and you’ll have an idea of what to expect from THIS IS ...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Zero Hour”

ZERO HOUR: Thursday 8PM on ABC A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in,...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “It’s A Disaster”

IT’S A DISASTER: Worth A Ticket – And They Feel Just (More Or Less) Fine IT’S A DISASTER is the movie Seeking A Friend For the End of the World aspired, but failed, to be: a laugh-out-loud, t...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “One Second,” “Wolf” & “Silent Night”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “In the Earth” & “Knocking”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Watchmen”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Strain”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “12 Monkeys”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “This Is The End”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Zero Hour”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “It’s A Disaster”

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