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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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THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: NBC’s “Marry Me”

MARRY ME: Tuesday 9PM on NBC starting October 14 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS: Series creator David Caspe, of the late and lamented Happy Endings. Stars Casey Wilson and Ken Marino, but especially W...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY “Season” Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

The network is preserving its contractual rights, but the signs are rife that tonight’s HART OF DIXIE was the last we’ll see of the series. After being banished to Fridays, it was held for midseason, then l...

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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”

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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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 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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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Whitney”

Whatever one may say about WHITNEY and whether it’s a sitcom that deserves to reach a Season 3, it’s clear that NBC and its producers (including star Whitney Cummings herself) heard the complaints about the...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Novitiate,” “The Incredible Jessica James” & “Marjorie Prime”

NOVITIATE (Sony Classics): It’s not clear how much of an audience there can be for a dark drama set amid the physical and psychological hardships of a pre-Vatican II midwestern abbey, but Margaret Betts’s N...

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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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Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Anora” & “All Of You”

ANORA (Neon – Oct. 17): Sean Baker has been making quirky, captivating character studies for some time now, starting with Starlet in 2012 and following it with Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket. The ro...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Hindsight”

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: NBC’s “Marry Me”

SHOWBUZZDAILY “Season” Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

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”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Selfie”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Whitney”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Novitiate,” “The Incredible Jessica James” & “Marjorie Prime”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Anora” & “All Of You”

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