THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Watch”
THE WATCH: Not At Any Price – Do the Stars a Favor: Don’t Watch Some terrible movies surprise and disappoint, but you could see THE WATCH coming for weeks. The increasingly desperate marketing campaign told th...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”
As soon as Robert Redford had enough clout to start generating his own movies, he began starring in and often producing some of the best politically-themed films of the 1970s, including The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor�...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger”
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER – Worth A Ticket: Marvel Goes Back To the Future There’s a certain irony in the fact that, in this summer of Super 8 and its Spielberg rapture, the most succes...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lola Versus”
LOLA VERSUS: Watch It At Home – An Unmemorable Woman LOLA VERSUS‘ ambition is pretty clear: it wants to be the 2012 version of Paul Mazursky’s 1978 comedy-drama AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, which is to say c...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Dictator”
THE DICTATOR: Watch It At Home – Little Shock, No Awe With Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen made one of the noisiest splashes into movie stardom of the past decade, daring and distinctive. The question was wheth...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Olympus Has Fallen”
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN: Watch It At Home – Better Luck in June In Hollywood’s grand tradition of 2 movies about volcanoes, 2 about Snow White, 2 about Christopher Columbus and 2 about Truman Capote, this year w...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...
ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Living,” “Call Jane” & “Watcher”
LIVING (no distrib): Over the years, there’s periodically been talk about remaking Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru, including a rumored updated US version that would have starred Tom Hanks in the le...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “God’s Country” & “Phoenix Rising”
GOD’S COUNTRY (no distrib): A deliberative character study that’s also a thriller of sorts, anchored by one of the best performances of Thandiwe Newton’s career. When two hunters (Joris Jarsky and Y...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D”
STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D, to give it its fully identifying title, has the distinction of being the most successful movie ever made that is generally agreed to be terrible. Over $900M in ticke...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? – Worth a Ticket: The Number’s Higher Than You’d Think Romantic comedies that are actually romantic and comic are so rare these days, it doesn’t matter ...