THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Guard”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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 SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Modern Family”
MODERN FAMILY: Wednesday 9PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Gloria (Sofia Vergara) is pregnant. That’s really all you need to know. Well, that and Cam and Mitchell (Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson) failed ...
THE SKED: Emmy Odds – Theirs and Ours: Comedy
> With the help of some online bookmaking sites, we have the latest “official” odds for tonight’s Emmy Awards. Let’s take a look about what they say about the conventional wisdom, and make some adj...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Girls”
Lena Dunham’s GIRLS has been all over the place this season, so it made sense that its season finale would come out of nowhere. We knew last week that when Jessa (Jemima Kirke) got a talking-to from former employer Ka...
THE SKED MIDSEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Bunheads”
Within the first two minutes of its midseason premiere tonight, BUNHEADS featured a Harold Clurman gag. For those not up on their celebrated left-wing Depression-era theatre directors, Clurman was–well, yeah. (...
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 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 BIJOU REVIEW: “The Change-Up”
> THE CHANGE UP – Watch It At Home: Cliches with Dirty Words Are Still Cliches There have been plenty of R-rated comedies this summer–a bumper crop, really–but none more fully committed to raunch than TH...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Guilt Trip”
THE GUILT TRIP: Watch It At Home – Maybe If the Ride Were Bumpier, It Would Be More Interesting The odd thing about THE GUILT TRIP is that it doesn’t especially cater either to fans of Barbra Streisand (w...
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...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Ass Backwards”
The Sundance programmers, one has to assume, are big fans of TV’s Happy Endings. Casey Wilson is part of that show’s wonderful ensemble, and one of its most reliably hilarious members. The news that she w...