THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Cars 2” – Running On Fumes
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
A SHOWBUZZDAILY “HUNGER GAMES” SCORECARD – 3/25/12
> So what just happened, and what’s likely to happen next? Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Panem: FINAL NUMBERS: It turns out THE HUNGER GAMES wasn’t such a hit after all, earning a meas...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Pacific Rim”
PACIFIC RIM: Watch It At Home – Even Michael Bay Might Say “Too Much” Why isn’t PACIFIC RIM a better movie? It’s a passion project for the tremendously talented co-writer (with Travis Be...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “Iron Man 3”
IRON MAN 3: Watch It At Home – Offbeat But Uneven Tentpole The last thing on earth that Shane Black, the co-writer (with Drew Pearce) and director of IRON MAN THREE (the way the credits spell it) seems to have wa...
“THE HANGOVER PART II” – Hair Of the Dog
> Worth a Ticket; It Wasn’t Broke, They Didn’t Fix It In Hollywood, the word “sequel” is often code for “remake.” This isn’t news: the James Bond series has been going on fo...
“X-MEN FIRST CLASS” – First Class Indeed
> Worth A Ticket: Superheroes Behind the Camera, Too. The most substantial movie of the summer so far is, depending on how you calculate, the fifth in a comic book series, a prequel or a reboot. X-MEN: FIRST C...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “Fast & Furious 6”
It’s almost unheard-of for a franchise to need 5 installments to hit its stride, but that was the case with 2011’s Fast Five. After kicking around with its first, moderately successful quartet in various lo...
THE BIJOU RETROSPECTIVE: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)”
> When the announcement was made that Warner Bros would split HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS into 2 full-length movies, there was a certain amount of cynicism about studio greed–and, indeed, why not pick up an extra...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series. It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. R...
THE BIJOU RETROSPECTIVE: “Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix”
> The magically moving portraits are pulled off the walls of Hogwarts in 2007’s HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, and the colors have started draining from the Potter universe. Gone are the lush visuals of ...
THOR: Hammered
> Watch It At Home: The God of Thunder Musters a Tinny Roar. Put it this way: the new superhero epic THOR cost something like $150M to produce, required the diligent services of hundreds of professionals over a peri...