THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Happy Endings”
HAPPY ENDINGS: Tuesday 9PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Chicago, where six of the oddest balls on television hang out. When last seen, Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) and Dave (Zachary Knighton), who started the whole show off whe...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Franklin & Bash”
This summer, TNT is airing an ambitious slate of original programming, including the final season of its signature series The Closer, the launches of spinoff Major Crimes and new procedural Perception, a...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Weeds”
WEEDS: Sunday 10PM on Showtime WHERE WE WERE: After a season largely concerned with a battle for supremacy in the New York drug trade, both within and outside the family, there seemed to be a moment of compara...
SHOWBUZZDAILY NY THEATRE JOURNAL: “Venus In Fur”
> VENUS IN FUR exists, at this point in its Broadway life, as two overlapping but not identical entities: it’s a deft new play by David Ives, but also, and more prominently, it’s become the Star-Is-Born vehicl...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suburgatory”
SUBURGATORY: Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Meeting Grandma. In the season finale, having survived her first year in the titular Chatswin, Tessa (Jane Levy) met her long-absent mother’s mom–on M...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Veep”
VEEP has no particular interest in going anyplace, so its season finale tonight was more or less the same as any other episode. This has made for a fun, but somewhat repetitive, ride over the show’s initial 8-episode se...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The First Time”
THE FIRST TIME may be too lovable for its own good. Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance, which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, couldn’t be more straightforward: in its opening minutes, it in...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt”
> It’s anyone’s guess why Francis Ford Coppola, at the age of 72, with some enduring cinema classics to his name, would decide to make a movie that’s a cross between a David Lynch retread, an old horror cheapi...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Whitney”
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks”
RUBY SPARKS: Worth A Ticket – A Narrative Feat Woody Allen is one of the most influential figures in modern independent film, but his ghost is usually evident in the many romantic comedy-dramas we get each...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Ben and Kate”
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, networks and studios (which may have ha...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”
> Lynn Shelton’s Humpday in 2009 was one of the most engaging pictures to come out of the mumblecore movement (“mumblecore,” for the uninitiated = ultra-low-budget, small scale film with dialogue mostly improv...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: NBC’S “Up All Night”
> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...