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“X-MEN FIRST CLASS” – First Class Indeed

> Worth A Ticket: Superheroes Behind the Camera, Too. The most substantial movie of the summer so far is, depending on how you calculate, the fifth in a comic book series, a prequel or a reboot. X-MEN: FIRST C...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Men In Black 3”

MEN IN BLACK 3: Watch It At Home – $250M Worth of “OK” After years of development, a famously troubled production, untold rewrites and a budget that even Sony admits is around $250M (meaning $400M+ wi...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Last Resort”

LAST RESORT: Thursday 8PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert The strangest new show on any network this season may be LAST RESORT, created and written by the man behind The Shield, Shawn Ryan, with Karl Gajdusek. The pro...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens”

COWBOYS & ALIENS – Watch It At Home: Genre Mash-Up Zaps Itself In the Foot It’s admirable, in a way, that for much of its length, COWBOYS AND ALIENS is willing to be more of a western than a scif...

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THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Eureka”

EUREKA, while never a breakout hit, was a sturdy performer for 5 years on Syfy–and one of the increasingly small number of shows on its air that was actually science-fiction, as opposed to superhero fantasy, horror...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens” – Circle the Spaceships!

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Nikita”

With its endless governmental and quasi-governmental conspiracies and its sci-fi technology, NIKITA has always flirted with sheer silliness, and in its Season 3 finale the show went all the way. Its ratings have also f...

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THE SKED @ CABLE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

> FALLING SKIES – Sundays 10PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Or: how is FALLING SKIES not Terra Nova? I’ve raved about FOX’s Fall dinosaur spectacle, and here’s another Steven S...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Alcatraz”

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battleship”

BATTLESHIP: Not Even For Free – Watch a Transformers DVD Instead For about half an hour, BATTLESHIP could fool you into thinking it’s not the movie you were expecting it to be. It beg...

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THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?

> Watch It At Home: That’s MR. Spielberg To You JJ Abrams’ SUPER 8 is the Beatlemania of Steven Spielberg movies. Abrams is no doubt absolutely genuine in his reverence for classics from the 1970...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON – Worth A Ticket – But Only If You Insist On Seeing It This is what gives ulcers to control freak movie directors: despite Michael Bay’s well-publicized orders to thea...

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THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Revolution”

REVOLUTION was sort of a sad story. The lights-are-out sci-fi adventure was NBC’s top priority in Fall 2012, promoted like crazy and given the network’s prized post-The Voice timeslot. At first the show l...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Alcatraz”

> ALCATRAZ was a show–pardon the use of past tense: the series still has a pulse, but recent ratings make it an increasing longshot for a repeat sentence–that just never found its groove. Convoluted but ...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Another Earth” – Deep Space

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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“X-MEN FIRST CLASS” – First Class Indeed

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Men In Black 3”

PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Last Resort”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens”

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Eureka”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens” – Circle the Spaceships!

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Nikita”

THE SKED @ CABLE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Alcatraz”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battleship”

THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”

THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Revolution”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Alcatraz”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Another Earth” – Deep Space

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