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SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “The Wiz Live”

THE WIZ LIVE was the smoothest, best-cast and best-sung yet of NBC’s annual Broadway musical pageants, although it had its own issues. The network, and producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, made a demographic cho...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

> 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...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

HELL ON WHEELS – Sunday 9PM on AMC WHERE WE WERE: Building the transcontinental railroad. Our antihero, former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, joined the Union Pacific Railroad’s march to the west on...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hell On Wheels”

Under new showrunner John Wirth, the third season of HELL ON WHEELS was on the whole uneven, and tonight’s season finale unfortunately wasn’t a very promising way for the bubble show to end its year. Wirth...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Hell On Wheels”

The fourth (and as it turns out penultimate) season of AMC’s HELL ON WHEELS was its most conventional and choppily focused. Under showrunner John Wirth (the show’s 3rd in that post), the neo-western has aba...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Wildlife” & “The Tale”

WILDLIFE (no distrib): If you’ve ever felt sorry for youngsters who are cordoned off from their parents’ difficult relationships, and then blindsided by the consequences, Paul Dano’s directing debut a...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Hate U Give” & “The Hummingbird Project”

THE HATE U GIVE (20th – October 19): YA radicalization. George Tillman Jr’s film, from a sprawling script by Audrey Wells (based on the novel by Angie Thomas) centers on Starr (Amandla Stenberg), an Afric...

by Mitch Salem

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ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth” & “Alice”

HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL (no distrib): Scandal-ridden mega-churches aren’t exactly fresh territory for screens big (The Tears of Tammy Faye) or small (The Righteous Gemstones), with tones that range from ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “The Wiz Live”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hell On Wheels”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Hell On Wheels”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Wildlife” & “The Tale”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Hate U Give” & “The Hummingbird Project”

ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth” & “Alice”

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