THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part 1”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top
> Watch It At Home; A circus story that’s not the greatest show in the multiplex. Sometimes even a small moment in a movie can typify how it’s gone wrong. There’s a scene fairly early in WATER FOR ELEPHA...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The First Time”
THE FIRST TIME may be too lovable for its own good. Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance, which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, couldn’t be more straightforward: in its opening minutes, it in...
THE SKED Pilot Review: “Star-Crossed”
STAR-CROSSED: Monday 8PM on CW – Change the Channel If aliens are in high school, we must be on CW. The network’s midseason entry STAR-CROSSED plays as a clip reel of CW’s greatest hits, from the su...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Roswell, New Mexico”
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO – Tuesday 9PM on CW CW has gone back to its WB/UPN roots for ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, a reboot and update of the Roswell series that debuted on the first of those networks in 1999, then moved to the...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Army Wives”
Even though nothing particularly thrilling happened on this seventh season of ARMY WIVES, it was a crucial season for Lifetime’s veteran drama. The show completed the reboot it had begun in Season 6, and assuming...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s “Restless”
> Gus Van Sant has been making movies for 25 years, but Restless–apart from its technical polish–feels like the work of a Sundance newcomer. And one who’s been reading too much Salinger, while meanwhile wearin...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “The Life of Chuck” & “We Live In Time”
THE LIFE OF CHUCK (no distrib): Although Mike Flanagan first gained attention as a director of low-budget feature films, he may be the first horror filmmaker to become an acknowledged master of the genre largely throu...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Bones”
BONES: Monday 8PM on FOX WHERE WE WERE: Watching Brennan drive away, baby Christine in tow. Temperance (Emily Deschanel) had been framed by cyberpath Christopher Pelant (Andrew Leeds) for the murder of an old frien...
THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: CW’s “Beauty & the Beast”
BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Thursday 9PM starting 10/11 on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often ree...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hart of Dixie”
CW’s good-humored not-Gilmore Girls small town romance HART OF DIXIE concluded its first season tonight with the same pleasant, likable, unthrilling touch it’s had since last fall. Hart isn’t really abo...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Bent”
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”
Among other things, the midseason finale of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES gets credit for the season’s most subversive use of Christmas carols, playing cheerily under ancient vampire Klaus (Joseph Morgan) as he first slaught...
THE SKED’S SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: ABC’s “Mistresses”
MISTRESSES: Monday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… These days, primetime soap operas usually try to be something else as well: comedies (Desperate Housewives), musicals (Glee), thrillers (Revenge), medical ...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Beauty & the Beast”
The midseason finale of the purported romantic thriller BEAUTY & THE BEAST delivered almost all romance, no thrills, as it continues to have only a glancing relationship with its title. Plotting has been this show...