THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding”
> I wasn’t aware that the Toronto Film Festival showed TV pilots until I caught a screening of PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING. As a pilot, Peace certainly has its appeal, with a strong cast that includes Jane Fo...
THE SKED: Emmy Odds – Theirs and Ours: Drama
>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 adju...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top
> Watch It At Home; A circus story that’s not the greatest show in the multiplex. Sometimes even a small moment in a movie can typify how it’s gone wrong. There’s a scene fairly early in WATER FOR ELEPHA...
THE SKED: “The Killing” Is Mortally Wounded
Not many people will mourn THE KILLING. AMC’s serialized mystery saga began with a great head of steam, and seemed poised to become the network’s next big show, but it became increasingly frustrating to wat...
PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “Made In Jersey”
MADE IN JERSEY: Friday 9PM on CBS – Change the Channel CBS is the network of The Good Wife, but don’t get your hopes up for its new legal drama MADE IN JERSEY. This one is a thin example of why the words ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”
BEING FLYNN: Watch It At Home – Troubling Story That Doesn’t Go Deep Enough There’s a scene in Paul Weitz’s new film BEING FLYNN where Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), the alcoholic...
THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “The Secret Circle”
On paper, THE SECRET CIRCLE seemed to have everything going for it. It was a ready-made companion piece to CW’s one big hit The Vampire Diaries–produced by Vampire‘s Kevin Williamson, based on ...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Rectify”
When people say that an original film or television series has the feel of a novel, it’s usually meant as a high compliment. (The Wire is probably the definitive example of this in television.) But Sundance Cha...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Smashed”
James Ponsoldt’s SMASHED (not to be confused with NBC’s Smash), which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, is a new spin on a fairly old story. The concept goes back (at least) to 1962’s...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – ABC’s “Revenge”
> 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: “Promised Land”
PROMISED LAND: Watch It At Home – Promise, But No Fulfillment There’s an original idea located somewhere near (but not at) the heart of PROMISED LAND: start with what would normally be an obvious storylin...
SHOWBUZZDAILY NY THEATRE JOURNAL: “Seminar”
> There’s an inescapable irony in Theresa Rebeck’s play SEMINAR when the bilious novelist (Alan Rickman) who’s reluctantly teaching a group of aspiring young writers launches an attack on one of them by predic...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Parenthood”
PARENTHOOD: Tuesday 10PM on NBC WHERE WE WERE: The wedding of Crosby (Dax Shepard) and Jasmine (Joy Bryant), an event long in coming, considering that they’ve been raising Jabbar (Tyree Brown) together a...
THE SKED REBOOT REVIEW: “Law & Order: SVU”
> Until now, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT has been unique to the franchise in not having undergone a periodic reshuffling of its cast. For 12 seasons, SVU had been the only one of the series to be star-driv...