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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (Warners) – Opens September 19 – Worth A Ticket Jonathan Tropper’s very successful day job is writing seriocomic novels about families and romance that are distinguished by the...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Mindy Project”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “You’re The Worst”

YOU’RE THE WORST: Wednesday 10:30PM on FXX The secret shame of Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash), the protagonists of YOU’RE THE WORST, is that they’re far more conventional than they’...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Blended”

BLENDED: Not Even For Free – A Bad Sitcom Episode, 4 Times As Long On the Adam Sandler Movie Pain-o-Meter (patent pending), the new BLENDED ranks about midway between the not-so-bad Just Go With It and the soul-c...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Wonder” & “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

THE WONDER (Netflix – November 16): In the time of Ireland’s Great Famine, 11-year-old Anna (Kila Lord Cassidy) claims to have survived for 4 months without eating even one bite of food. Is she a miracle,...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Mindy Project”

THE MINDY PROJECT: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX After an uneven season and a half that seemed to slide from one genre and tone to the next on a nearly weekly basis (it’s a rom-com! it’s a workplace comedy!), lea...

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THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hart of Dixie”

HART OF DIXIE: Tuesday 8PM on CW WHERE WE WERE: The bedroom of Dr. Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) in Bluebell, Alabama, where the New York transfer was finally getting some action after an entire season of dithering. On ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Mistresses”

MISTRESSES: Monday 10PM on ABC There isn’t much mistressing going on in MISTRESSES at the dawn of the unapologetically frothy summer soap’s 4th season. Having weathered the loss of marquee star Alyssa Mil...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “Marry Me”

MARRY ME: Tuesday 9PM on NBC THE FACTS: Happy Endings creator David Caspe reunites with Casey Wilson, one of that show’s stars, for a rom-com that pairs her with Ken Marino, as a longtime couple who finally get...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Rye Lane,” “Passages” & “Run Rabbit Run”

RYE LANE (Searchlight/Disney – March 31): Raine Allen Miller’s feature debut Rye Lane is a bubbly surprise, a quick-witted, fast-paced rom-com overflowing with charm. The script by Nathan Bryon and Tom Me...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “You’re the Worst”

Everyone on Stephen Falk’s FX comedy YOU’RE THE WORST is a wreck, and yet the pieces of the show have fallen together rather neatly. The series isn’t so much an anti-rom-com as a kicking and screaming...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Emily Owens, MD”

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 2 Capsule Reviews: “Snowden,” “American Pastoral” & “Carrie Pilby”

SNOWDEN (Open Road – Sept 16): Oliver Stone’s return to politically-charged biography is subdued by the standards of his Nixon or W. It’s a hagiography that follows the character arc of his Born of ...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “A To Z”

A TO Z: Thursday 9:30PM on NBC THE FACTS: The title refers to Andrew (Ben Feldman) and Zelda (Cristin Milioti), who both work at an online dating company, and who, since this is a rom-com, are of course fated for eac...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”

EILEEN: A dark tale of liberation, based on the novel by Ottessa Moshlegh (and adapted by Moshlegh with Luke Goebel). Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is an anonymous employee at a boys’ prison in a confining, wintry...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Mindy Project”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “You’re The Worst”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Blended”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Wonder” & “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Mindy Project”

THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hart of Dixie”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Mistresses”

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “Marry Me”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Rye Lane,” “Passages” & “Run Rabbit Run”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “You’re the Worst”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Emily Owens, MD”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 2 Capsule Reviews: “Snowden,” “American Pastoral” & “Carrie Pilby”

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “A To Z”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Eileen,” “Shortcomings” & “Landscape With Invisible Hand”

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