THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON – Worth A Ticket – But Only If You Insist On Seeing It This is what gives ulcers to control freak movie directors: despite Michael Bay’s well-publicized orders to thea...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Killer Elite”
KILLER ELITE: Watch It At Home – Neither Killer Nor Elite The new KILLER ELITE takes little from Sam Peckinpah’s 1975 action movie apart from its title (Peckinpah used “The” in his) and the gene...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Adventures of Tintin”
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: Worth A Ticket – The Return of Steven Spielberg Remember how lousy the last Indiana Jones movie was? Remember watching it and wondering sadly what had become of Steven Spielberg...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”
THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”
ON THE ROAD – Worth A Ticket – Kerouac’s Classic Is Beautiful and Atmospheric But Lacks Urgency ON THE ROAD, as a novel and now as a film adaptation, is so enmeshed with the mythology of the real-life p...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Belfast,” “Benediction” & “Jagged”
BELFAST (Focus/Universal – Nov. 12): Kenneth Branagh’s semiautobiographical film walks a path laid by many great works by master filmmakers, including Fellini’s Amarcord, John Boorman’s Hope and...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Project Nim”
PROJECT NIM: Worth A Ticket – If You Can Stand It At first I wondered why on earth Fox Searchlight hadn’t grabbed James Marsh’s documentary PROJECT NIM at Sundance, to serve as an unofficial pr...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Paranormal Activity 3”
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3: Worth A Ticket – More Minimalist Bumps In the Dark The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise is a movie studio’s dream come true. The concept itself demands a no-star cast, a very li...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Filly Brown”
FILLY BROWN, directed by Youssef Delara (who also wrote the script) and Michael D. Olmos, falls into a recognizable Sundance genre: sagas of poor young women (usually ethnic) struggling to escape their poverty a...