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THE SKED Midseason Finale Review: “Revolution”

With the addition of Rockne S. O’Bannon to the REVOLUTION writing/producing team as co-showrunner, alongside series creator Eric Kripke, the first half (actually 9/22nds) of its second season has been more tightly ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

THE WALKING DEAD: Sunday 9PM on AMC Last year’s season premiere of THE WALKING DEAD was the show’s most polarizing hour, introducing long-awaited Big Bad Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and lingering on his bru...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Pacific Rim”

PACIFIC RIM: Watch It At Home – Even Michael Bay Might Say “Too Much” Why isn’t PACIFIC RIM a better movie? It’s a passion project for the tremendously talented co-writer (with Travis Be...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE WATCH: “Terra Nova”

> Warning: Spoilers Ahead Here, in the end, is all you needed to know about TERRA NOVA: in its entire 2-hour season–and very possibly series–finale, dinosaurs were sighted for a grand total of about 2 mi...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”

IN TIME: Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack. Niccol’s ideas are genuinely im...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The 100″”

“There are no good guys,” titular Chancellor of post-apocalyptic Earth Abby Griffin (Paige Turco) told her teenage daughter Clarke (Eliza Taylor), who had supplanted her as de facto warrior queen of humanity,...

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”

SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING: The Office, for depressives. Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the most anonymous member of a nondescript shipping department in a small Oregon town, wrapped in so many layers of emotional insulat...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”

THE SURVIVOR (no distrib): So many films and television productions have tackled the subject of the Holocaust over the decades that it takes real effort to break through with a story that feels fresh. Barry Levinson&...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Frankenweenie”

FRANKENWEENIE: Watch It At Home – Tim Burton Tries To Bring His Old Creation Back to Life Tim Burton certainly can’t have planned it this way, but his new stop-motion feature version of FRANKENWEENIE serves...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “The Whispers”

THE WHISPERS: Midseason TBD on ABC THE FACTS: Something is taking possession of American children and making them do very bad things–like “kill your parents” bad things. They may be on their way t...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

HUMAN FACTORS: Is Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors intended as a political allegory? The married couple at its center are the German Jan (Mark Waschke) and the French Nina (Sabine Timoteo), and there’s a plo...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Fringe”

It is, make no mistake, a wonderful thing that FOX (with the financial cooperation of studio Warner Bros) is bringing FRINGE, one of television’s most distinctive and imaginative shows, back for a 5th and final 13-...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Humans”

HUMANS: Sunday 9PM on AMC – If Nothing Else Is On… The sentient robot story gets another workout in HUMANS, AMC’s first import series. It’s set in a barely futuristic England where “synt...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Prometheus”

PROMETHEUS: Worth A Ticket – For the Visual Splendor, Not the Plot Expectations were undoubtedly too high for PROMETHEUS. The Alien franchise (and notwithstanding Ridley Scott and co-writer Damon Lindelo...

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THE SKED Midseason Finale Review: “Revolution”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Pacific Rim”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE WATCH: “Terra Nova”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The 100″”

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Frankenweenie”

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “The Whispers”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Human Factors,” “Cryptozoo” & “How It Ends”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Fringe”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Humans”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Prometheus”

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