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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Weird Loners”

WEIRD LONERS: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX Previously… on WEIRD LONERS: Out-of-work womanizer Stosh (Zachary Knighton) has just moved in with his odd cousin Eric (Nate Torrence) in Eric’s house, which is next do...

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SOMETHING BORROWED: The Weekend’s Not-Thor

> Watch it At Home; Something Acceptable. As romantic comedies with Kate Hudson go, SOMETHING BORROWED isn’t so bad. After her spectacular debut in Almost Famous, Hudson’s become something of a brand nam...

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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Ground Floor”

GROUND FLOOR: Thursday 10PM on TBS – If Nothing Else Is On… As cable networks have stolen more and more of the glory from broadcasters, with TV movies, miniseries, and quality 1-hour dramas now largely in t...

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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 Pilot + 1 Review: “Manhattan Love Story”

MANHATTAN LOVE STORY: Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC Previously… on MANHATTAN LOVE STORY: Cynical, blase native New Yorker Peter (Jake McDorman) meets idealistic small-town girl Dana (Analeigh Tipton), a newcomer to tow...

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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 Series Premiere Review: “Man Seeking Woman”

MAN SEEKING WOMAN: Wednesday 10:30PM on FXX – If Nothing Else Is On… You know how on Family Guy a character will say “This is just like when________” or “You’re like________,” ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Hindsight”

HINDSIGHT has been a very pleasant rom-com-dram vehicle that probably didn’t generate enough in the way of buzz, and certainly didn’t score the ratings, to survive past its first season, notwithstanding its ...

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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Land,” “Together Together” & “Marvelous and the Black Hole”

MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE: Goodhearted YA comfort food. Kate Tsang’s feature debut is about 13-year old Sammy (Miya Cech), who has become surly and rebellious toward her father Angus (Leonardo Nam) and siste...

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THE SKED Pilot (+1) Review: “Undateable”

UNDATEABLE: Thursday 9PM on NBC – Change the Channel UNDATEABLE, whose episodes NBC is burning off two at a time on summer Thursday nights, may not be quite bad enough to earn the obvious “unwatchable”...

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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Selfie”

SELFIE: Tuesday 8PM on ABC Previously… on SELFIE: Any resemblance to characters created by George Bernard Shaw and musicalized by Lerner & Loewe couldn’t be more intentional, as exacting, exasperated ...

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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 Season Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

HART OF DIXIE barely survived the hunger games known as network scheduling season this year–it won’t be back until midseason, with an abbreviated (and probably final) set of episodes, and even then only so it...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Weird Loners”

SOMETHING BORROWED: The Weekend’s Not-Thor

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Ground Floor”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Manhattan Love Story”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Man Seeking Woman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Hindsight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Blended”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Land,” “Together Together” & “Marvelous and the Black Hole”

THE SKED Pilot (+1) Review: “Undateable”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Mindy Project”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Selfie”

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

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

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