THE BIJOU REVIEW: “War Horse”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE: “Downton Abbey”
> It’s not an exaggeration to say that many people probably had to check their cable and satellite listings just to find out where their local PBS station was, once it became clear that the first season of what’s no...
THE SKED REVIEW: “Hemingway & Gellhorn”
It wasn’t so long ago that the announcement of an epic period love story starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and legendary novelist Ernest Hemingway, directed by Philip...
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: “War Horse”
WAR HORSE: Watch It At Home – Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Anonymous”
ANONYMOUS: Watch It At Home – The Bard Was A Beard, Claims Wheezy Expose ANONYMOUS is history tailored for the 1%. Although screenwriter John Orloff and director Roland Emmerich have swirled it into a comp...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Immortals”
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos&#...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “A Dangerous Method”
A DANGEROUS METHOD: Watch It At Home – A Visit to Dr. Cronenberg’s Clinic Throughout his career, David Cronenberg has been fascinated by twin compulsions: the aberrant and the repressive. The for...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”
> One of the enduring questions of Madonna’s illustrious quarter-century career is how someone so brilliant in managing every other facet of her persona has consistently made such terrible decisions when it comes to movie...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows”
SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS: Watch It At Home – Far Too Elementary We have to come to terms with the fact that an entire generation may recognize the name Sherlock Holmes not as the template ...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Playboy Club”
> 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...