THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Grace”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots For those who like Six Degrees of Separation-ish linkages: the protagonist of ABC’s busted pilot GRACE is Michael Grace, an aging, womanizing choreographer who bears some resemblance...
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Another Earth”
ANOTHER EARTH – Worth A Ticket: Tiny Story With Big Ambitions For ANOTHER EARTH, the Sundance Film Festival went exactly the way it’s supposed to. The low-key picture was made on a miniscule bud...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Filly Brown”
FILLY BROWN, directed by Youssef Delara (who also wrote the script) and Michael D. Olmos, falls into a recognizable Sundance genre: sagas of poor young women (usually ethnic) struggling to escape their poverty a...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”
> In just her second feature film as a director (her first was 2006’s Oscar-nominated Away From Her), Sarah Polley demonstrates that she’s already a filmmaker with rare grace and sensuality in TAKE THIS WALTZ, which...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Missing”
> 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 SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Ringer”
> RINGER could have been a hell of a movie. It happens sometimes with TV shows. Remember Daybreak, featuring Taye Diggs as a cop who had to relive the same day over and over again, Groundhog Day style, until he could solv...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”
As soon as Robert Redford had enough clout to start generating his own movies, he began starring in and often producing some of the best politically-themed films of the 1970s, including The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor�...
THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Grey’s Anatomy”
GREY’S ANATOMY: Thursday 9PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: In a plane crash. After a difficult year in which many of our characters had to pass their medical boards and then choose/be chosen by a hospital for a perma...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “It’s A Disaster”
IT’S A DISASTER: Worth A Ticket – And They Feel Just (More Or Less) Fine IT’S A DISASTER is the movie Seeking A Friend For the End of the World aspired, but failed, to be: a laugh-out-loud, t...