THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks”
RUBY SPARKS: Worth A Ticket – A Narrative Feat Woody Allen is one of the most influential figures in modern independent film, but his ghost is usually evident in the many romantic comedy-dramas we get each...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack & Jill”
JACK AND JILL: Not At Any Price – 2 Adam Sandlers is 2 Too Many Does anyone really expect an Adam Sandler movie to be good anymore? Seriously, if you put aside his occasional relatively serious effort...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rock of Ages”
ROCK OF AGES: Watch It At Home – Stop Believin’ No one expects finesse from a movie musical constructed out of songs by Journey, Twisted Sister and Def Leppard. And, to be certain, the hair-band era of th...
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: “Fright Night”
FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home: At Least Farrell Had Fun The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials. Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Magazine Dreams,” “Polite Society” & “Drift”
MAGAZINE DREAMS: The hype was accurate: Jonathan Majors gives a titanic performance in Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams. Playing Killian, a roided-up amateur bodybuilder obsessed with achieving glory in that pr...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
OUR IDIOT BROTHER – Watch It At Home: Sitcom On A Big Screen Although it premiered at Sundance, OUR IDIOT BROTHER was an “independent film” only in a technical sense: it was produced on a ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Pact”
It takes about an hour, but Nicholas McCarthy’s THE PACT, which premiered in the Park City At Midnight section at Sundance, eventually turns out to have a neat twist up its sleeve, one that switches the movie from ...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Sharp Stick” & “Babysitter”
SHARP STICK (no distrib): Lena Dunham is certainly no stranger to the concept of art as provocation, but it’s difficult to understand what Sharp Stick, her first feature film in a dozen years, and her first solo ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “We Bought A Zoo”
WE BOUGHT A ZOO: Worth A Ticket – Cameron Crowe Pays His Dues and Keeps His Dignity There’s a classic line in Albert Brooks’s incredibly prescient 1979 Real Life where Brooks, as the pro...