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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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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 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 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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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Silver Linings Playbook”

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK: Don’t Get Sold Out – A Rom-Com With Dance Moves All Its Own Anyone who doubts that Jennifer Lawrence is a real-thing, big-time movie star should get thee hence to a theater showing ...

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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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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: “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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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Review: “Juliet, Naked”

JULIET, NAKED (no distrib): Every Sundance has a title or two that isn’t particularly “indie,” other than by the fact that its stars aren’t hugely bankable. These aren’t the films that s...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mindy Project”

THE MINDY PROJECT: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX – DVR Alert Companion shows don’t come more perfectly designed than FOX’s THE MINDY PROJECT. When FOX launched New Girl last fall, it became an instant ...

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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 Premiere (-ish) Review: “Hart of Dixie”

CW is treating Season 4 of HART OF DIXIE as carelessly as its characters tend to treat each other. The show’s return has been delayed until midseason, moved to the nether reaches of Friday nights, and its order c...

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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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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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Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Queer” & “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

QUEER (A24 – TBD): Luca Guadagnino has unearthed glamour in the blood-soaked dance troupe/witches’ coven of Suspiria and the cannibal romance of Bones and All, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that his s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Selfie”

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

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

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Whitney”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Silver Linings Playbook”

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Ground Floor”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Mistresses”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Review: “Juliet, Naked”

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mindy Project”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere (-ish) Review: “Hart of Dixie”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

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

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Queer” & “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

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