THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The River”
> 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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “V/H/S”
V/H/S, which screened as part of Sundance’s Park City At Midnight series, is a gimmick piled upon a gimmick. First is the horror anthology itself, familiar from the Twilight Zone movie and Rod Serling’s Night...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket – “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–ha...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Project X”
PROJECT X: Not Even For Free – Don’t RSVP How is it that no one has yet produced a 3D found-footage movie? You’d think the combination of the most (usually) mind-numbing gimmicks of the past ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “End of Watch”
David Ayer’s END OF WATCH brings a new wrinkle to the “found-footage” genre by using it in a cop movie. LAPD Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) wires a camera to his uniform, and constantly photog...