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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sergio” & “Lost Girls”

SERGIO (Netflix – April 17): Greg Barker’s film has an unusual pedigree. Barker, up to this point a documentarian, directed a nonfiction version of the same story (and with the same title) in 2009, but de...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Worth,” “Dream Horse” & “Uncle Frank”

WORTH (no distrib): A dry but fascinating angle on the story of 9/11, Worth centers on the real-life Ken Feinberg (Michael Keaton), an attorney with a very specific expertise: he and his firm calculated and negotiate...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hustlers” & “Endings, Beginnings”

HUSTLERS (STX – September 13): Lorena Scafaria becomes the latest filmmaker failing to ascend Martin Scorsese Mountain. Her Hustlers wants to be Goodfellas in its marrow, not only in its based-on-a-true-story t...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Just Mercy,” “Pain & Glory,” “The Personal History of David Copperfield” & “Varda By Agnes”

JUST MERCY (Warners – December 25): As the release date suggests, this is a straight-down-the-middle Oscar play, and it may have some success in that arena (although Warners will also be campaigning for The Goldf...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Blinded By The Light” & “Judy and Punch”

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (New Line/Warners): Sundance was somewhat awash in feel-good movies this year, which is unusual but not unprecedented. One of the most successful in previous years was 2002’s Bend It Like B...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Escape At Dannemora”

ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA: Sunday 10PM on Showtime Although the star currency of producer/director Ben Stiller and leading players Benicio del Toro, Patricia Arquette and Paul Dano doubtless were responsible for the 7 hours ...

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ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Ophelia” & “Burden”

OPHELIA (no distrib): Claire McCarthy’s film, written by Semi Chellas from Lisa Klein’s novel, dampens the fun of its own concept. The idea is to re-tell Hamlet through the eyes of Shakespeare’s ill...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 3 Capsule Reviews: A Monster Calls, Lion, The Bleeder, Colossal & Elle

COLOSSAL (no distrib): Well, you haven’t seen this take on sci-fi spectacles before. In Nacho Vigalondo’s whatzit, party girl Gloria (Anne Hathaway) and her hometown friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) discover...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Spotlight”

Awards season is Darwinian, often placing two titles in direct competition that have only general traits in common. Last year we had the British biographies The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game, which might ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Black and White”

BLACK AND WHITE – no current US distributor or release date – Not Even For Free BLACK AND WHITE was reportedly drawn from events in its writer/director Mike Bender’s own life, which makes it remarkable,...

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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Welcome to Sweden”

WELCOME TO SWEDEN: Thursday 9PM on NBC – Potential DVR Alert WELCOME TO SWEDEN has one of the more unusual provenances of any show on a US broadcast network. It was commissioned by Swedish television, where it ...

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Turn”

TURN: Sunday 9PM on AMC Previously… on TURN: In 1776, apolitical New York cabbage farmer Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell) is pulled into spying for the colonial cause, inveigled by his old friends Ben Tallmadge (Seth ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sergio” & “Lost Girls”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Worth,” “Dream Horse” & “Uncle Frank”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hustlers” & “Endings, Beginnings”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Just Mercy,” “Pain & Glory,” “The Personal History of David Copperfield” & “Varda By Agnes”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Blinded By The Light” & “Judy and Punch”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Escape At Dannemora”

ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Ophelia” & “Burden”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 3 Capsule Reviews: A Monster Calls, Lion, The Bleeder, Colossal & Elle

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Spotlight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Black and White”

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Welcome to Sweden”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Turn”

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