THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Colombiana”
COLOMBIANA – Not Even For Free: Even the Body Count Is Dull For a movie from the Luc Besson House of Action, COLOMBIANA is surprisingly listless and dispirited. Besson first came to prominence as a direc...
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: “The Lucky One”
THE LUCKY ONE: Watch It At Home – Not If The One Is In The Audience Zac Efron has been working out, and he wants you to know it. Efron’s new biceps and abs are on frequent display in THE LUC...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Footloose”
FOOTLOOSE: Watch It At Home – Faithfully Reproduces the Original For Good and Bad 1980s week at the multiplex continues with a remake of FOOTLOOSE, a trip back to the territory of Herbert Ross’s 1984...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins”
To say BATMAN BEGINS successfully rebooted the Warners franchise is accurate, but incomplete. Christopher Nolan’s film, from the script he wrote with David S. Goyer, is a complete rethinking of the very concept o...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Happy Feet Too”
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Magic Mike”
MAGIC MIKE: Worth A Ticket – Soderbergh Again Earns His Crumpled Dollars Although he hasn’t appeared in any of the year’s giant action blockbusters (GI Joe 2, probably not that giant anyway, w...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “My Week With Marilyn”
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN: Worth A Ticket – Michelle Williams is Spectacular, Movie Is Fine Harvey Weinstein has two movies on the way in the next couple of months featuring actresses who are presumptive...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “On Chesil Beach” & “Loveless”
ON CHESIL BEACH (no distrib): Ian McEwan’s longish novella/shortish novel has been adapted by McEwan himself into a fluid and extremely English film, the first feature directed by stage director Dominic Cooke. ...