THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Footloose”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”
THE LAST 5 YEARS (Radius/Weinstein) – release date currently unscheduled – Worth A Ticket Richard LaGravenese’s film version of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST 5 YEARS, which premiered at the Tor...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”
> Haven’t all the jokes been made? In the history of Broadway, there may never have been a show as relentlessly ridiculed as SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK. At this point, it may be that the only interest...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Glee”
The remarkable thing is that GLEE was ever a giant mainstream hit in the first place. When the books are closed on Kevin Reilly’s reign at FOX, great credit will be due to him for daring to go all in on such a st...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Follies”
> FOLLIES may be the strangest of all Broadway masterpieces; after 40 years, it’s still the most avant-garde work of Stephen Sondheim’s career. It’s easy enough to make the show sound linear: set in 1971...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Muppets”
THE MUPPETS: Watch It At Home – Nonstop Cuteness When it was announced that Disney’s new movie of THE MUPPETS (the Mouse House bought the entire franchise from Jim Henson’s company some year...
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Can A Song Save Your Life?”
Less intimate but perhaps even more irresistible than his micro-indie smash Once, John Carney’s follow-up CAN A SONG SAVE YOUR LIFE? plays a similar tune with broader orchestrations. The city this time is New ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Les Miserables”
LES MISERABLES – Worth A Ticket – One Day More Finally Arrives In light of some of the early reactions, perhaps the most important thing to note about LES MISERABLES the film is that it is, in fact, the f...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Smash”
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Flora & Son,” “A Little Prayer” & “The Pod Generation”
FLORA AND SON (Apple): John Carney’s Irish dramedy was (with Fair Play) the commercial bonanza of Sundance, reportedly with a $20M pricetag. It isn’t hard to see why the studio and streamer checkbooks cam...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Heretic” & “Emilia Perez”
HERETIC (A24 – Nov. 15): A nifty piece of philosophical horror from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of the original A Quiet Place. The set-up is almost fairy tale in its simplicity. A pair of young wo...