THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Larry Crowne” – The Feel-OK Movie Of the Summer
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Eureka”
EUREKA, while never a breakout hit, was a sturdy performer for 5 years on Syfy–and one of the increasingly small number of shows on its air that was actually science-fiction, as opposed to superhero fantasy, horror...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”
> Derick Martini’s HICK is like a Sundance movie that took the wrong indie-film exit and wound up in Toronto. For whatever reason, Toronto’s film festival tends to find itself with fewer stories of young peopl...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Vince Uncensored”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots Not even the presence of Michael Chiklis and Elizabeth Perkins could make VINCE UNCENSORED endurable. Deservedly consigned by CBS to its trash-bin, this isn’t one of those pilots yo...
SCRE4M: Meta Boo!
> Watch It At Home; The thrills are so postmodern, they don’t seem to be happening in the theater. When the original Scream arrived in 1996, the slaughtering-the-teenagers genre was already old enough to drive; the ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Paul”
Watch it at home. The genial PAUL really only has one joke–luckily it’s a pretty good one: what if ET had the persona of Seth Rogen? While Paul isn’t the first alien to crack jokes (rememb...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Big Year”
THE BIG YEAR: Watch It At Home – Very Small Pleasures THE BIG YEAR is an amiable, good-natured comedy that’s so insubstantial it seems to fly out of your memory even as you’re watching it. If...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Parks & Recreation”
If NBC’s Thursday night sitcoms were a movie about college roommates, The Office would be the one who doesn’t study or do the work but still gets better grades than anyone else, 30 Rock would be the teacher&#...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Girls”
> GIRLS – Sundays 10:30PM on HBO – Potential DVR Alert The lion’s share of attention paid to HBO goes to its splashy, big-budget, big-name projects like Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Luck and True Blood.&...
THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Daniel Craig
The heart sank when 15 minutes into tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE–the part of the show that’s still supposed to be funny–the first post-monologue sketch was a labored, silly bit that went nowhere ...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Louie”
LOUIE: Thursday 10:30PM on FX WHERE WE WERE: In the mind of Louis C.K. It’s a place where a moderately successful working stand-up comic named Louie shares custody of two daughters with his ex-wife and lives ...
THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Don’t Trust the B— In Apt 23”
> 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 ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Seeking A Friend For the End Of the World”
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD – Watch It At Home – Apocalypse Rom-Com Now SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD marks the directing debut of its writer Lorene Scafaria, who until now ha...