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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” & “Corsage”

WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY (Roku – November 4): A comic book fantasia of a celebrity “biography,” Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (co-written with Yankovic himself, who’s also ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Westworld”

WESTWORLD: Sunday 9PM on HBO No one would ever accuse HBO’s WESTWORLD of being straightforward, but by the time Season 1 ended, series creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy had placed at least some of their cards ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

Do Westworld‘s creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have free will? This third season of HBO’s was supposed to be fundamentally different from the first two, and certainly things changed in some key ways. ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

For all that HBO’s WESTWORLD is deliberately obscure and oblique, one thing has become increasingly clear through the course of its second season: series creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy expect viewers to dec...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman”

It’s a cliche to say, when a director of commercials and music videos helms his or her first feature film, that the result resembles a video extended to feature length–and certainly not one that’s always true,...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Westworld”

WESTWORLD: Sunday 9PM on HBO – Potential DVR Alert HBO’s mega-series WESTWORLD began its run enigmatically and laden with multiple layers of meta-narrative, so much so that it’s not entirely clear fro...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “God’s Country” & “Phoenix Rising”

GOD’S COUNTRY (no distrib): A deliberative character study that’s also a thriller of sorts, anchored by one of the best performances of Thandiwe Newton’s career. When two hunters (Joris Jarsky and Y...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”

HORSE GIRL (Netflix – February 7): Every one of the four films Jeff Baena has directed had its premiere at Sundance, with Horse Girl following Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours. It’s an impressi...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “His Three Daughters,” “Backspot” & “Lee”

HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (no distrib): The premise of Azazel Jacobs’ film is simple enough to be staged as a play: as their father Vincent (Jay O. Sanders) lies dying in an unseen room of his Bronx apartment, Katie...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

“Interactive TV” is a phrase that’s been used many times in many contexts over the years, and HBO’s WESTWORLD provided a new way to look at the concept. The first season of Westworld was–m...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” & “Corsage”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Westworld”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Westworld”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “God’s Country” & “Phoenix Rising”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “His Three Daughters,” “Backspot” & “Lee”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

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