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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lincoln”

LINCOLN: Worth A Ticket – The West Wing, Civil War Edition In today’s Hollywood, there aren’t many directors whose names are trademarks. “A Martin Scorsese movie” doesn’t have the ...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 4 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

We’re at the halfway point in Season 1 of THE NEWSROOM (so, yay!), and Aaron Sorkin celebrated by firing almost his entire writing staff. (In a delightfully self-referential touch that TMI Magazine would apprecia...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Homeland”

HOMELAND: Sunday 10PM on Showtime WHERE WE WERE: Wincing, as bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) underwent electroshock therapy, which we knew was going to make her forget the proof she had that former P...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

Previously… On THE NEWSROOM: Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his executive producer Mackenzie MacHale (Emily Mortimer), with the support and encouragement of News Division head Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) are ...

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THE SKED REVIEW: Josh Brolin on “Saturday Night Live”

> The upcoming MEN IN BLACK 3 centers around a time-travel theme, and with co-star Josh Brolin as host, much of this week’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE seemed to be saluting the movie with sketches that could have been written an...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

THE GOOD WIFE: Sunday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Waiting for Kalinda’s door to open. She (Archie Panjabi) was calmly waiting inside with a gun, waiting for her former husband, a man who even Kalinda thinks is da...

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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT: Tuesday 10PM on FX – If Nothing Else Is On… For better or worse, it may be particularly unfair to judge FX’s new TYRANT on the basis of its pilot alone. There’s been an unusual amount ...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

The crazier SCANDAL has gotten, the better it’s been. Although the Shonda Rhimes soap only had a 7-episode run this Spring, it’s managed to find its footing quickly. The first few episodes w...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The East”

A couple of Sundances ago, the actress/writer/producer Brit Marling was a festival darling, with two acclaimed pictures unveiled the same week. In the end, while both Another Earth and Sound of My Voice received di...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Veep”

No show enjoys running around in circles more than VEEP. Armando Ianucci’s political sitcom glories in Vice-President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her staff of venal incompetents mistakenly navigating t...

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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

SCANDAL has been having a barn-burner of a Season 2, emerging as a pulpier, crazier Homeland (not that Homeland hasn’t been pretty crazy the last couple of weeks), a DC-set melodrama where everybody is lying to som...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Campaign”

THE CAMPAIGN: Not At Any Price – Abstain THE CAMPAIGN, like many a politician before it, tries to be all things to all people, and winds up delivering almost nothing. There was reason to be hopeful about The Camp...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Veep”

VEEP: Sunday 10PM on HBO You wouldn’t expect Armando Iannucci’s VEEP to change much from season to season, and you’d largely be right. Notwithstanding its four-letter words and bustling cinema verit...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

In 1988, the Chilean military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet was forced by diplomatic pressure to finally permit a democratic election, in order to prove its claim that the country’s people support...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lincoln”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 4 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Homeland”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

THE SKED REVIEW: Josh Brolin on “Saturday Night Live”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The East”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Veep”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Campaign”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Veep”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

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