THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Hugo”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mirror Mirror”
MIRROR MIRROR: Not Even For Free – 7 Years Bad Luck When it was announced that 2012 would bring two big-budget movie versions of the Snow White story, not to mention TV’s Once Upon A Ti...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hugo”
HUGO: Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie: it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’S 2D ANNUAL FANTASY SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT
The arrival of THE AVENGERS means that, whatever the calendar may say, as far as Hollywood is concerned, summer has begun. Which in turn means that for the next several months, would-be blockbusters will be launched into mult...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Cabin In the Woods”
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: Watch it At Home – Clever and Culty Seeing THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is sort of like being in Fight Club: the first rule is not to talk about it. Or, at least, not to reveal any of...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Touch”
> TOUCH: Mondays 9PM on FOX, starting March 19 – Change the Channel FOX’s new series TOUCH got off to a very good start in the ratings with a “preview” episode last week (having American Idol as a ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”
THE NEST (no distrib): Sean Durkin’s first feature since 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene presents its emotions with such high-intensity beams that it often feels as though the film is going to slip into the...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Red, White & Retro
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”
> 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: “Snow White and the Huntsman”
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN: Worth A Ticket – Not a Disneyland Ride Just to be clear, the new SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN bears about as much resemblance to this spring’s Mirror Mirror as The Dark ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”
It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Late Night” & “Paradise Hills”
LATE NIGHT (Amazon): It’s legitimate to note that the thoroughly mainstream and commercial Late Night belonged at Sundance just about as much as The Devil Wears Prada would have, since to a large extent it transp...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Touch”
TOUCH is a show that thrives on impenetrable mysteries, so perhaps one day it will solve its own. The show was FOX’s big midseason drama play (Terra Nova was the fall’s), by virtue of being created by Heroes write...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Game of Thrones”
After last week’s tumultuous, spectacular battle of Blackpool, tonight’s Season 2 finale of GAME OF THRONES was, necessarily, somewhat lower-key. It served more as a coda, and as a tran...