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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

FIRST DATE: Your regard for First Date is likely to directly relate to your nostalgia for the low-rent action comedies and Tarantino imitations of the 1990s and 2000s. Those comedies were marked by idiot plots that p...

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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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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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THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: ABC’S “Manhattan Love Story”

MANHATTAN LOVE STORY: Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC starting September 30 – Change the Channel PLAYERS: Series creator Jeff Lowell, who’s been a writer/producer on sitcoms going back to Cybill two decades ago, bu...

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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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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 BIJOU: Captain America: The First Boxoffice

> The Hollywood Reporter has some rough early numbers for Friday’s boxoffice, and the news looks good for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Including Thursday midnight grosses of $4M, it seems to be around $...

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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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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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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 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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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

This week marked the end of the road for two of TV’s most distinctive, original takes on the romantic-comedy genre. FXX’s You’re the Worst and CW’s CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND were both “cult hits...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Mindy Project”

After two full seasons, it’s become clear that Mindy Kaling’s THE MINDY PROJECT may never be a “well-made show.” Characters pop in and out–it was recently announced that receptionist Betsy...

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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 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 Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

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

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

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: ABC’S “Manhattan Love Story”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Manhattan Love Story”

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

THE BIJOU: Captain America: The First Boxoffice

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

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

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

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Mindy Project”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Blended”

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

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