Kristen Wiig | Showbuzz Daily

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Downsizing” & “The Shape of Water”

DOWNSIZING (Paramount – Dec 22): Alexander Payne’s latest film (written with his usual partner Jim Taylor) is a delight–and a bit of a mess. On its face, Downsizing is a leap out of Payne and Taylor...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “mother!” & “Unicorn Store”

mother! (Paramount – Sept 15): It may come as a shock to people who have been following the marketing for Darren Aronofsky’s mother! to find out that it isn’t a horror movie at all. It uses thriller...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Skeleton Twins”

Star power makes all the difference in THE SKELETON TWINS. Craig Johnson’s dramedy (written with Mark Heyman) takes place in fairly commonplace territory, especially at Sundance: siblings bound together, whe...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Spoils of Babylon”

THE SPOILS OF BABYLON: Thursday 10PM on IFC – Change the Channel A lot of talent has been harnessed for IFC’s miniseries parody THE SPOILS OF BABYLON, starting with performer/producers Will Ferrell (whose F...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES: Watch It At Home – Fun But Overextended Silliness ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES runs 119 minutes, which is rather too much of a not-bad thing (the original Anchorman, in 2...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

AFI FEST Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY: Buy A Ticket – Ben Stiller’s Imaginative, Flawed Reboot Of The Classic Tale The movies Ben Stiller directs for himself (Reality Bites, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder) are nearly ...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Hateship Loveship”

Earnest and low-key to a fault, Liza Johnson’s HATESHIP LOVESHIP might have felt more at home in the Narrative Competition at Sundance than in Toronto. It has a dramatic recessiveness, almost a passivity, for m...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Despicable Me 2”

DESPICABLE ME 2: Watch It At Home – Good-Hearted If Unexciting Sequel For the Kids Despicable Me was far from the most ambitious or striking animated feature of the last few years, but it was definitely cute. I...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Frances Ha” & “Imogene”

One of the things that happens at film festivals is that as you see many films in back-to-back proximity, mini-trends start to emerge, at least in the mind, and pictures that were made entirely separately, and which may ...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Galas and Special Presentations Announced

The Toronto Film Festival is on its way, and SHOWBUZZDAILY will be there. The Festival, which runs Sept 6-16, today announced the bulk of its highest-profile titles, those that will screen in the Gala and Specia...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger isn’t exactly known for his comedy stylings. But the man knows a little bit about performing, and he was an extremely game host for tonight’s 37th season finale of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. He didn...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

Action

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”

Genre: Action

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

by Mitch Salem

Full Review »

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”

FRIENDS WITH KIDS: Worth A Ticket – Sitcom, In A Good Way We live in a pop culture where the recent Emmy Award nominees are so clearly superior to the films up for this past year’s Oscar that ...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

THE SKED: Lindsay Lohan on SNL

> We’re not on the tabloid beat at SHOWBUZZDAILY, but when Lindsay Lohan put herself in front of the cameras tonight on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, she made herself fair game. It would be heartwarming to be able to report ...

by Mitch Salem

Full Story »

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Downsizing” & “The Shape of Water”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “mother!” & “Unicorn Store”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Skeleton Twins”

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Spoils of Babylon”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”

AFI FEST Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Hateship Loveship”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Despicable Me 2”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Frances Ha” & “Imogene”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Galas and Special Presentations Announced

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Mick Jagger

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”

THE SKED: Lindsay Lohan on SNL

Search

Archive

Newsletter Sign-up