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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Beautiful Creatures”
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: Watch It At Home – Many Witches, Little Magic BEAUTIFUL CREATURES can’t be dismissed as merely an overlong TV episode meant for the CW, but it never really comes together, either. Ric...
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...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Arrow”
The success of ARROW was a big win for CW and for DC Comics this season. The appeal of CW’s single-girl soaps was running thin, while DC has been reeling from the otherworldly success of arch-rival Marvel’s...
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...
PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Revolution”
REVOLUTION: Monday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… REVOLUTION is Falling Skies without aliens, The Walking Dead without zombies, Jericho… well, actually it pretty much is Jericho. We’ve all stro...
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...
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...
PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Review – “Save Me”
SAVE ME: Thursday 8PM on NBC – Change the Channel Note: This review was originally written after last year’s Upfronts, before it was known that SAVE ME would be held by NBC until the summer. It’s ...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Alphas”
ALPHAS: Monday 10PM on Syfy WHERE WE WERE: Think X-Men without the big special effects, the cool gadgets and the costumes. Dr. Lee Rosen (David Stathairn) is the shepherd to a group of Alphas, individuals wi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Brave”
BRAVE: Watch It At Home – Pixar Out Of Its Element A spunky young animated princess is suffocated by her domineering mom, and her efforts to break free lead to all sorts of unintended chaos… Wasn’t Ta...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”
Anyone who saw the ONCE UPON A TIME pilot and thought the series would be worth watching only “if nothing else is on” would surely have to be an idiot–and in this case, that idiot was me. I couldnR...
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 MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Arrow”
ARROW, CW’s successful new superhero action series, has found its own best secret identity as a quasi-soap, a fact imperfectly illustrated by tonight’s midseason finale. The tactic of conveying a comic book s...