THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Guard”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Report – NBC’s “Ironside”
IRONSIDE: Wednesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel “There are rules, dammit, and they need to be followed!” That actual line is spoken, with a completely straight face, about four minutes into the...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Guard”
THE GUARD – Worth A Ticket: The Art of Performance, Crispy and Well-Done I don’t know that there’s an actor in movies today more fun to watch than Brendan Gleeson. Gleeson is probably best kn...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Rizzoli & Isles”
RIZZOLI & ISLES: Tuesday 9PM on TNT TNT set the last cornerstone of its extensive but unambitious summer schedule in place with tonight’s return of RIZZOLI & ISLES, one of the network’s mainstays, n...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Major Crimes”
TNT’s MAJOR CRIMES, like its predecessor The Closer, belongs to the “procedural-plus” subgenre, with a crime to be solved every week combined with a secondary amount of continuing serialized plot. Ho...
THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “Major Crimes”
MAJOR CRIMES: Monday 9PM on TNT MAJOR CRIMES isn’t the kind of series to go for “game-changing” alterations, so the back half (actually 8 episodes) of its second season, which resumed tonight after a ...
PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED PILOT REPORT: “Golden Boy”
GOLDEN BOY: Friday 9PM on CBS (special previews on Tuesday 2/26 and 3/5) – Potential DVR Alert CBS tries to have its procedural cake and eat its serialization with GOLDEN BOY. Think of it as How I Met Your Moth...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”
> Oren Moverman’s first film as a director, The Messenger, was a beautifully contained, emotionally detailed story about soldiers assigned to deliver tragic news to the families of the deceased. In his new film RAMP...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Major Crimes”
MAJOR CRIMES: Monday 9PM on TNT MAJOR CRIMES, TNT’s spin-off of The Closer, will always have a weakness at its center, caused by the odd decision to build the show around the character of Sharon Raydor (Mary McDo...
THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Bridge”
THE BRIDGE: Wednesday 10PM on FX – DVR Alert FX has assumed a leadership role in the development of serious, ambitious TV drama over the past decade (The Shield, Rescue Me, The Americans), and with its new series...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Motive”
Even among procedurals, ABC’s Canadian summer series MOTIVE was a bare-bones example of the genre–it was virtually abstract. The show had a single gimmick: at the start of each episode, the killer and vic...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Major Crimes”
MAJOR CRIMES has been doing for TNT what it was created to do–that is, fill the hole left by the departure of the network’s long-running hit The Closer–and it’s earned the Season 2 renewal it̵...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Rookie Blue”
The sparse network summer season for scripted series kicked off tonight with ROOKIE BLUE, beginning that extreme rarity, a 3d season, where few original network dramas in summer even get to a Season 2. WHERE WE WE...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “End of Watch”
David Ayer’s END OF WATCH brings a new wrinkle to the “found-footage” genre by using it in a cop movie. LAPD Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) wires a camera to his uniform, and constantly photog...