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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

SHAMELESS: Sunday 9PM on Showtime The Gallagher family is undergoing transitions as Season 4 of Showtime’s SHAMELESS begins, and the tone is considerably less rambunctious than in previous seasons. That’s...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

REBEL IN THE RYE (no distrib): Danny Strong’s first film as a director is a biography of J. D. Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), and it hits all the Salinger bullet points: his early struggles to get published, his sp...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Family”

THE FAMILY: Sunday 9PM on ABC Previously… on THE FAMILY: Ten years after his disappearance and presumed death, a now-teen Adam Warren (Liam James) appears, freshly escaped from what he describes as a decade spe...

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 Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

Natalie Portman certainly hasn’t made it easy for herself with her debut as a writer/director, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS. The film, which premiered at Cannes (but tellingly, doesn’t yet have a US distribu...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Ray Donovan”

Replacing a show’s creator with a new showrunner isn’t the preferred way for a series to proceed, but the change did some good for Season 3 of RAY DONOVAN, although tonight’s season finale didn’t ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Good Behavior”

GOOD BEHAVIOR: Sunday 10PM on TNT As TNT continues with its scorched-earth policy of shedding its old-guard mainstream successes (Rizzoli & Isles, Major Crimes) for the more adult, serialized dramas favored by netw...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Annapurna – November 30): Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight received a rapturous standing ovation at its Toronto premiere, and it’s unquestionably a beautiful piece of ...

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THE SKED Summer Finale Review: “Chasing Life”

CHASING LIFE, which aired its not-quite-half season finale tonight, could better have been titled What Not To Do If You Get Cancer. That, in itself, isn’t a criticism: a story about a narcissistic idiot who get...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

In its second season, MTV’s FINDING CARTER made a disappointingly dim argument for sustaining itself beyond its initial premise. The series remains well-acted, and it has its emotionally pursuasive moments, but i...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

Last week’s episode of NBC’s THIS IS US notched an impressive achievement: in Live + 7 ratings, it moved past Empire to become the highest rated drama on broadcast TV. Admittedly, L7 ratings aren’t ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

This was a Toronto Film Festival unlike any other, and not just because I “attended” it from the laptop in my house. Toronto has become an important stop on the road to the Academy Awards, with 9 of the pas...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: “Hellion”

Of all the films in this year’s US Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Kat Candler’s HELLION was the one that most closely matched what’s become a festival template: Aggressively shaky handheld camerawork...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

SHAMELESS: Sunday 9PM on Showtime John Wells comes from the broadcast network school of showrunning, where he kept ER going for 22 (or more) episodes per year for more than a decade, and barely missed a beat when Aaron...

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THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “Dallas”

DALLAS: Monday 9PM on TNT As TNT pushes its action-oriented “Boom” branding campaign (successfully with The Last Ship, not so much with Murder In the First nor apparently the new Legends), DALLAS seems more...

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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Family”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Ray Donovan”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Good Behavior”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

THE SKED Summer Finale Review: “Chasing Life”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: “Hellion”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “Dallas”

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