THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Ides of March”
THE IDES OF MARCH: Watch It At Home – An Excellent Play Becomes a Merely Good Movie The Ides of March, one of the most eagerly awaited of this year’s festival crop, is more entertaining than i...
PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED’S PILOT REPORT – CW’s “The Carrie Diaries”
THE CARRIE DIARIES: Monday 8PM on CW – Change the Channel THE CARRIE DIARIES is CW’s last big gun of the season (Cult, still forthcoming, is smaller caliber), the show that the network hopes wil...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”
> Lynn Shelton’s Humpday in 2009 was one of the most engaging pictures to come out of the mumblecore movement (“mumblecore,” for the uninitiated = ultra-low-budget, small scale film with dialogue mostly improv...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Missing”
> MISSING: Premieres Thursday 8PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… If you’ve seen any of the commercials for ABC’s new MISSING, you know that it’s basically Ashley Judd playing Liam NeesonR...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Smash”
> 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 SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Pan Am”
> 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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Limitless”
Worth a ticket. In movies, as in life, when someone is offered an illicit miracle drug that seems too good to be true, it usually is. So the general narrative arc of LIMITLESS doesn’t come as a huge s...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: The CW’s “Hart of Dixie” – 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 SKED: “Dallas” Drills For Ratings
TNT’s much-hyped reboot of the venerable soap DALLAS got off to a good start, with a total viewership of 6.9 million people. That’s the biggest launch of the year on basic cable, although it’s not even a rec...
THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Once Upon A Time”
> ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME is one of the few no-question-about-it hits of the current television season, and the gathering at today’s PaleyFest session, while enormously enthusiastic, was less raucous and more comfort...
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...
THE SKED REVIEW: “Hatfields & McCoys” Episode 2
The second 2-hour chunk of the newly anointed most popular scripted show in the history of basic cable, History’s HATFIELDS & MCCOYS, was much like the first episode: a strong opening hour followed by a secon...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Nikita”
The Season 2 finale for CW’s NIKITA was probably shot with the idea that it could well be the series finale–and logically it should have been, considering the show’s ratings. In recent weeks, N...