THE BIJOU REVIEW: “I Don’t Know How She Does It”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “21 Jump Street”
21 JUMP STREET: Watch It At Home – High School Meta-Bromance The meta-ization of contemporary comedy marches on: Community, of course, is a virtual meta-kingdom, but Happy Endings makes Friends jokes, th...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Enlightened”
ENLIGHTENED: Sunday 9:30PM on HBO HBO’s decision to renew Mike White and Laura Dern’s ENLIGHTENED for a second season was one of the least ratings-driven calls in memory. The show barely registered with v...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “How To Be A Gentleman” – PREMIERING TONIGHT
> 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 criti...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Much Ado About Nothing”
One of the most charming things about Joss Whedon’s new film of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, unveiled today at the Toronto Film Festival, is that it’s not out to prove anything. Its actors are garbed in modern dress, and...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Butter”
> Jim Field Smith’s comedy BUTTER, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, ambitiously makes a play for both the heartwarming indie Little Miss Sunshine audience and the satire-minded Election crowd. That may ...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Big C”
The problem with making a show about someone dying of cancer is that no one really wants to watch a show about someone dying of cancer. Viewers will roll along with the dark and disturbing, but by and large they draw the line...
THE SKED: NBC Still At it
More, more, more news from The Peacock: Try to hold on to your lunch: WHITNEY is back, lack of quality (and even lack of ratings) apparently not meaning too much at the network these days. (At least it seems t...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Ted”
TED: Watch It At Home – More Than a TV Show, Less Than a Movie With TED, Seth MacFarlane makes his move to the big screen from a spectacularly successful career in adult-oriented TV animation, steering m...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “That’s My Boy”
THAT’S MY BOY: Not Even For Free – Low-Rent Even For Sandler THAT’S MY BOY is 116 minutes long. I mention that up front because, for those of us who consider time spent watching Adam Sandler movies ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Men In Black 3”
MEN IN BLACK 3: Watch It At Home – $250M Worth of “OK” After years of development, a famously troubled production, untold rewrites and a budget that even Sony admits is around $250M (meaning $400M+ wi...
THE SKED REVIEW: “Brand X With Russell Brand”
BRAND X WITH RUSSELL BRAND: Thursday 11PM on FX – Change the Channel Russell Brand has been more or less flailing around for the past several years, trying to find a place in American pop culture. His introduct...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Thanks For Sharing”
Stuart Blumberg’s first film as a director (his screenwriting credits include The Kids Are All Right), THANKS FOR SHARING, never quite manages to solve its own central problem: how to make a sensitive and funny (and not...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: ABC’S “Last Man Standing” – PREMIERING TONIGHT
> 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...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “30 Minutes Or Less”
30 MINUTES OR LESS – Watch It At Home: Doesn’t Deliver The frustration of 30 MINUTES OR LESS is that of all the R-rated comedies this summer, it was the one with the most original premise and promisi...