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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Humans,” “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” & “The Wheel”

THE HUMANS (A24/Showtime – Nov. 24): There are typically two strategies for adapting a celebrated play about a small number of people in a limited space to the screen. One is to “open it up,” adding...

by Mitch Salem

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Empire of Light” & “Triangle of Sadness”

EMPIRE OF LIGHT (Searchlight/Disney – December 9): Sam Mendes takes the first solo screenwriting credit of his long career on Empire of Light, a personal film inspired by his youth and his mother. The story is ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

MOTHERING SUNDAY (Sony Classics – Nov 19): Eva Husson’s film, adapted by Alice Birch from a Graham Swift novel, has many of the rote trappings of prestige costume drama. We’re back in the English co...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Broadchurch”

The first season of BROADCHURCH was a phenomenon in the UK, one that prompted the ill-fated FOX US remake Gracepoint, and also, back in England, the somewhat controversial decision to renew the series beyond its seemi...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Broadchurch”

BROADCHURCH: Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica Previously… on BROADCHURCH: In the small Dorset town of Broadchurch, the body of 11-year old Danny Latimer has been found on the beach, just as the local police force h...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Father,” “Nine Days” & “The Glorias”

THE FATHER (Sony Classics – TBD): It’s probably foolhardy to start making predictions about next year’s Oscars when this year’s haven’t even been handed out yet, but it’s hard to ima...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Wicked Little Letters,” “Anatomy Of A Fall,” & “All The Light We Cannot See”

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (no distrib): In The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley played the same character at different ages, which prevented them from sharing the screen. That’s remedied in the fair...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Broadchurch”

BROADCHURCH – Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica One of the first things shown in the Season 3 premiere of BROADCHURCH is a looming close-up of a tear rolling down a crime victim’s face, so we know little has chan...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “London Road”

LONDON ROAD may have seemed marginally less odd as the stage musical it originally was. No matter how naturalistic a play may be, the mechanics of theatre make it somewhat stylized, and that may have brought the show&#...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Broadchurch”

BROADCHURCH: Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica – Potential DVR Alert BROADCHURCH suffers a bit, through no fault of its own, from murder fatigue. Since The Killing, we’ve seen quite a few of these extended mys...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Humans,” “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” & “The Wheel”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Empire of Light” & “Triangle of Sadness”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Broadchurch”

THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Broadchurch”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Father,” “Nine Days” & “The Glorias”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Wicked Little Letters,” “Anatomy Of A Fall,” & “All The Light We Cannot See”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Broadchurch”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “London Road”

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Broadchurch”

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