Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Past Lives,” “Fairyland” & “Infinity Pool”
PAST LIVES (A24): The playwright Celine Song makes an impressive feature writing/directing debut with the lovely, eloquent Past Lives. The film is sort of the opposite of Sliding Doors and all of the multiversal ente...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”
It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “One Second,” “Wolf” & “Silent Night”
ONE SECOND (Neon – TBD): Zhang Yimou’s film was notoriously the subject of controversy with the Chinese government, which held it back from its originally scheduled film festival debut in 2019, and forced s...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”
MOONRISE KINGDOM: Worth A Ticket – The Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s Wes Anderson seemed to find the perfect vehicle for his particular form of brilliance with 2009’s stop-motion animated Fa...
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: “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER – Not Even For Free – An Unconstitutional Offense Against Moviegoers Honestly: how is a movie called ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER not a comedy? It’s as if Wood...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Thing”
THE THING: Watch It At Home – Not Interesting Enough To Be Scary The third movie iteration of THE THING is as impersonal as the creature it’s about. This version, the first feature directed ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Three Stooges”
THE THREE STOOGES: Watch It At Home – More Nyuks Than You’d Expect The Farrelly Brothers’ THE THREE STOOGES is better than its marketing campaign let on, and while that would be more impressive...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Campaign”
THE CAMPAIGN: Not At Any Price – Abstain THE CAMPAIGN, like many a politician before it, tries to be all things to all people, and winds up delivering almost nothing. There was reason to be hopeful about The Camp...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers”
THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weeke...