THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Puncture”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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: “Dark Shadows”
DARK SHADOWS: Watch it At Home – Loving Detail Isn’t Enough DARK SHADOWS is one of the most confounding big-budget movies of recent years. When Tim Burton (and his muse, Johnny Depp, one of the fil...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”
J. EDGAR: Watch It At Home – Brokeback Hoover It’s a little unexpected that of all the films Clint Eastwood has directed, his new biography J. EDGAR most resembles The Bridges of Madison Count...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Am I OK?” and “Lucy and Desi”
PALM TREES AND POWER LINES (no distrib): Jamie Dack’s first feature film (from a script written with Audrey Findlay) means to unsettle, and it does. 17-year old Lea (Lily McInerny) is stuck in a dead-end Southe...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Beautiful Creatures”
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: Watch It At Home – Many Witches, Little Magic BEAUTIFUL CREATURES can’t be dismissed as merely an overlong TV episode meant for the CW, but it never really comes together, either. Ric...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”
EILEEN: A dark tale of liberation, based on the novel by Ottessa Moshlegh (and adapted by Moshlegh with Luke Goebel). Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is an anonymous employee at a boys’ prison in a confining, wintry...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “To Rome With Love”
TO ROME WITH LOVE: Worth A Ticket – Woody Allen Takes A Roman Holiday At the age of 76, with 44 films and a moving van’s worth of awards to his credit, Woody Allen doesn’t worry too much about topping...