THE BIJOU REVIEW: “I Don’t Know How She Does It”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Straw Dogs”
STRAW DOGS: Watch It At Home – Pointless In Every Way Forget about the artistic comparisons, the insult to film history, and the lack of respect to a great filmmaker no longer with us. There’...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Woman In Black”
THE WOMAN IN BLACK: Watch It At Home – Fun, But Creaky As Its Doors THE WOMAN IN BLACK is so aggressively old-fashioned it sometimes feels like the horror movie version of The Artist. A haunted ho...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battleship”
BATTLESHIP: Not Even For Free – Watch a Transformers DVD Instead For about half an hour, BATTLESHIP could fool you into thinking it’s not the movie you were expecting it to be. It beg...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIES: The Dark Knight Trilogy and the Art of the Long Con
Warning: this piece will discuss details of the storyline of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES as well as the other Batman films. GIANT SPOILERS WILL ABOUND; proceed at your own risk. Christopher Nolan is remarkable among the gr...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Nanny,” “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” & “Resurrection”
NANNY (no distrib): Think Netflix’s Maid, but as a (sort of) horror movie. Aisha (Anna Diop) is an undocumented Senegalese immigrant in New York who works as a nanny for the daughter of a well-off couple, Amy (...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Monte Carlo”
MONTE CARLO: Watch It At Home – The Usual Tourist Stops Beware the credit “Screen Story by.” It means that whatever the original source material for a movie may have been, it’s essentia...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Disobedience” & “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”
DISOBEDIENCE (no distrib): Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation (with Rebecca Landiewicz) of Naomi Alderman’s novel is one of the surprises of the festival. It would be perfectly reasonable for the idea of Rachel...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”
THE AVENGERS: Worth A Ticket – A Fun Summer Movie, No More Or Less It’s easy to forget that THE AVENGERS is, you know, a movie. It’s perhaps the ultimate example of corporate intellectual pro...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Ted”
TED: Watch It At Home – More Than a TV Show, Less Than a Movie With TED, Seth MacFarlane makes his move to the big screen from a spectacularly successful career in adult-oriented TV animation, steering m...