THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
2012 Summer Movie Draft: The Race Is On
And the race begins. Team Metcalf is off to an early lead in the second annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft, thanks to a big head start from Marvel’s The Avengers (Metcalf’s top pick and the #2 pick overall).�...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”
ONCE UPON A TIME: Sunday 8PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Watching a season finale that looked like it could end the series, as Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), AKA the daughter of Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard (Ginnifer...
THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The 100″”
Season 1 of CW’s THE 100 worked better than logic suggested it should, considering that it was basically a thrift shop of plotlines and tropes from other, more ambitious fantasies, some aimed at teens (The Hunger G...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Green Lantern” – Shining Not So Bright
> Watch It At Home: For Fans of Florescent Green Another summer weekend; another superhero epic. What used to be an extravagant event genre is now hard-pressed to muster more than a yawn. What is there to say ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Wrath of the Titans”
WRATH OF THE TITANS: Watch It At Home – Put Back the Kraken The producers of WRATH OF THE TITANS swore that this time the 3D would be better than it was in 2010’s Clash of the Titans, and you know wh...
THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Fringe”
The most paranormal thing about FRINGE, in the end, was that it actually survived 5 seasons on the air, as very possibly the lowest-rated series to be regularly renewed in the history of network television. (Made possi...
Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Dumb Money” & “North Star”
THE BOY AND THE HERON (GKids – Dec. 8): Hiyao Miyazaki, a legend of animation (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke), had announced his retirement as a feature film director a decade ago, upon the...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Dark Knight Rises”
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Worth A Ticket – The Saga That Rewrote Superhero Movies Goes Out With A Weighty Bang Christopher Nolan likes his intricate, novelistic plotting. You remember the portion of The Dark Knight wher...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grimm”
The second season of NBC’s GRIMM was considerably more satisfying than its first, although it did show the strain of trying to establish a series mythology. The season’s final episode (really, last weekR...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Red, White & Retro
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Whatever one can say about Chris Columbus–and there’ll be plenty of less than glowing words about him below–he’s the man who cast Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the leads in 200...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Neighbors”
A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 3 Capsule Reviews: A Monster Calls, Lion, The Bleeder, Colossal & Elle
COLOSSAL (no distrib): Well, you haven’t seen this take on sci-fi spectacles before. In Nacho Vigalondo’s whatzit, party girl Gloria (Anne Hathaway) and her hometown friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) discover...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Grimm”
> 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...