THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Zookeeper” – Behind Bars
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Magic Mike”
MAGIC MIKE: Worth A Ticket – Soderbergh Again Earns His Crumpled Dollars Although he hasn’t appeared in any of the year’s giant action blockbusters (GI Joe 2, probably not that giant anyway, w...
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 ...
LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”
> Watch It At Home: Petty larceny. Sometimes casting can be too good: Keanu Reeves playing a guy who pretty much sleepwalks through his own life is practically redundant. His whole style, from the very start o...
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...
THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Common Law”
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 ...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Whit Stillman’s “Damsels In Distress”
> Whit Stillman has one of the most distinctive voices in American film, and his 13-year absence from the screen barely shows in his new comedy DAMSELS IN DISTRESS; it feels as though, had it been made immediately after The Las...
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...
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 REPORT: NBC’s “Free Agents”
>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 sho...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Sitter”
THE SITTER: Not At Any Price – Adventures In Bad Moviemaking Jonah Hill is awfully lucky to have made Moneyball this year. In that film, fueled by a brilliant Aaron Sorkin/Steven Zaillain script, he gave...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE: “Californication”
> CALIFORNICATION has been a fairly reliable performer for Showtime, although not a breakout hit (last season, airing at 9PM, it was doing around a 0.2 in 18-49s, about the same as The Big C and a little below the network’...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Perception”
PERCEPTION: Monday 10PM on TNT – Change the Channel A man stands on a chair in the middle of a police station, earphones fastened to his head, and frantically conducts the symphony he’s listening to....
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...