THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”
> Today, 3 films from first-time directors: Caroline Bottaro’s marvelous QUEEN TO PLAY is, in a sense, a sports movie. We have the out-of-nowhere player whose newly-discovered talent shakes up her whole life, the wi...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Maron”
In its first season, Marc Maron’s self-created series MARON was more of an uneven experiment than a cohesive series. Maron tried on several different formats in the course of its 10 episodes on IFC–mordant ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Emanuel & The Truth About Fishes”
EMANUEL AND THE TRUTH ABOUT FISHES is deeply, satisfyingly strange. In a way, it’s a validation not just of Sundance, but the whole film festival system that is now our main way of finding out about distinctive ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “A Better Life”
A BETTER LIFE – Watch It At Home: Earnest Isn’t Enough Impending disaster hangs over every early scene of Chris Weitz’s new film A BETTER LIFE. As soon as we’re introduced to Carlos ...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Louie”
LOUIE: Thursday 10:30PM on FX WHERE WE WERE: In the mind of Louis C.K. It’s a place where a moderately successful working stand-up comic named Louie shares custody of two daughters with his ex-wife and lives ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/5/12
The 41% Weekend 3 drop for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Warners) is a bit better than Dark Knight‘s parallel 43% decline, but in actual numbers, Dark Knight‘s 3d weekend is $6.3M ahead ($42.7M vs $36.4M), and the $...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”
THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”
BEING FLYNN: Watch It At Home – Troubling Story That Doesn’t Go Deep Enough There’s a scene in Paul Weitz’s new film BEING FLYNN where Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), the alcoholic...