THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Larry Crowne”
LARRY CROWNE: Watch It At Home – Giant Stars/Tiny Ambitions Allow me to play Nostradamus for a moment. the day will come–and it’s not far off–when you’ll be sitting in front of yo...
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...
ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Living,” “Call Jane” & “Watcher”
LIVING (no distrib): Over the years, there’s periodically been talk about remaking Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru, including a rumored updated US version that would have starred Tom Hanks in the le...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “God’s Country” & “Phoenix Rising”
GOD’S COUNTRY (no distrib): A deliberative character study that’s also a thriller of sorts, anchored by one of the best performances of Thandiwe Newton’s career. When two hunters (Joris Jarsky and Y...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “V/H/S”
V/H/S, which screened as part of Sundance’s Park City At Midnight series, is a gimmick piled upon a gimmick. First is the horror anthology itself, familiar from the Twilight Zone movie and Rod Serling’s Night...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIES: The Dark Knight Trilogy and the Art of the Long Con
Warning: this piece will discuss details of the storyline of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES as well as the other Batman films. GIANT SPOILERS WILL ABOUND; proceed at your own risk. Christopher Nolan is remarkable among the gr...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket – “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–ha...
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 ...