SHOWBUZZDAILY 2014 Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews
The consensus is that the 2014 Sundance Film Festival was a solid but unexciting one. To an extent that’s a business judgment: whatever its leaders may say publicly, Sundance gave itself up long ago to being as m...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY HOLIDAY MOVIE GUIDE
The year-end movies are almost all out now (2012’s final limited release, PROMISED LAND, opens on Friday), so here’s a handy capsule guide to what’s worth seeing at the multiplex-and what isn’t. ...
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 RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
Everything is a little smoother in 2002’s HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. The young actors give more assured performances; Steve Kloves’ script, having gotten so much exposition out of its w...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Watch”
THE WATCH: Not At Any Price – Do the Stars a Favor: Don’t Watch Some terrible movies surprise and disappoint, but you could see THE WATCH coming for weeks. The increasingly desperate marketing campaign told th...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? – Worth a Ticket: The Number’s Higher Than You’d Think Romantic comedies that are actually romantic and comic are so rare these days, it doesn’t matter ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Young Adult”
YOUNG ADULT: Worth A Ticket – Theron + Oswalt = The Real Thing Charlize Theron plays the hell out of her character Mavis Gary in the new YOUNG ADULT. Theron has had a curious Hollywood career, with the usual big-...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Shadow Dancer”
Plot and character revelations are a critical part of James Marsh’s subtle, complex spy drama SHADOW DANCER, adapted by Tom Bradby from his own novel, so I’ll be circumspect in describing its plot beyond the ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Tim Burton’s “Batman”
It’s been 23 years since the pre-Christopher Nolan version of the Batman franchise launched into the boxoffice stratosphere, and a lot has changed in the movie landscape. (1989 is so long ago that it was a topica...