THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Fringe”
The most paranormal thing about FRINGE, in the end, was that it actually survived 5 seasons on the air, as very possibly the lowest-rated series to be regularly renewed in the history of network television. (Made possi...
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...
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 ...
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...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Person of Interest”
PERSON OF INTEREST: Tuesday 10PM on CBS You wouldn’t necessarily know it from last night’s ratings, but PERSON OF INTEREST had a smooth segue to its new Tuesday 10PM home. Although there are some notable ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Westworld”
WESTWORLD: Sunday 9PM on HBO – Potential DVR Alert HBO’s mega-series WESTWORLD began its run enigmatically and laden with multiple layers of meta-narrative, so much so that it’s not entirely clear fro...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Minority Report”
MINORITY REPORT: Monday 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… It’s not unusual for a sci-fi/fantasy or action-adventure pilot to boast a far more generous budget than the amount allotted to ordinary ser...
Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “The Assessment” & “Road Diary”
THE ASSESSMENT (no distrib); It seems initially as though Fleur Fortune’s feature directing debut The Assessment will be easy to peg. The script, by John Donnelly and the duo credited as “Mrs and Mr Thoma...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “Star Trek: Into Darkness”
STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS: Worth A Ticket – Another Satisfying Trip On the Enterprise J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot cohorts, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, did a bang-up job rejuvenating the Star Trek fra...
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...
“John Carter” and The Art of Bus-Under Pushing: SHOWBUZZDAILY CLOSE-UP
> A movie called JOHN CARTER opened a few days ago. It cost a few bucks, and as you may have heard, didn’t make as much money as its studio, Disney, would have liked. Notwithstanding the supposed mandate from ...
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...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”
FALLING SKIES – Sunday 9PM on TNT WHERE WE WERE: On our way into a spaceship. The aliens have arrived, and contrary to what Executive Producer Steven Spielberg used to tell us, they’re not nice at ...
THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Extant”
EXTANT: Wednesday 9PM on CBS – If Nothing Else Is On… CBS’s EXTANT has been at the center of a Hollywood tentpole-sized marketing campaign for months, so it’s a bit disappointing to find that th...