THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Broadchurch”
The first season of BROADCHURCH was a phenomenon in the UK, one that prompted the ill-fated FOX US remake Gracepoint, and also, back in England, the somewhat controversial decision to renew the series beyond its seemi...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″”
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2: Watch It At Home – The Webs Aren’t Very Tight This Time The huge, lumbering pieces of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 rarely succeed in fitting together. It’s as though the studio...
SCRE4M: Meta Boo!
> Watch It At Home; The thrills are so postmodern, they don’t seem to be happening in the theater. When the original Scream arrived in 1996, the slaughtering-the-teenagers genre was already old enough to drive; the ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Taken 2”
TAKEN 2: Watch It At Home – “Particular Set of Skills” Indeed As silly sequels to mindless hits go, TAKEN 2 is fairly entertaining, at least for a while. The first movie, of course, was a sur...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead: World Beyond”
THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND – Sunday 10PM on AMC Even as AMC announced the upcoming termination of the WALKING DEAD mothership after one more super-sized season, the network went all-in on the franchise, unveili...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Worth A Ticket: Simian Power Although it’s positioned as the last big adventure epic of the summer, for most of its length Rupert Wyatt’s RISE OF THE PLA...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”
G.I. JOE: RETALIATION: Not Even For Free – Endlessly Dumb Exercise In Boom-Boom Action There’s a difference between making a movie for 11-year old boys and having a script that seems to have been written by...
SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Grown Ups 2”
GROWN UPS 2: Not Even With A Gun To Your Head – Is It Time For the Razzies Yet? One can’t lightly dismiss Adam Sandler. After the first Grown Ups, it seemed implausible that he could make a movie even wor...
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: “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL: Worth A Ticket – Routine But Spectacular With MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, Brad Bird makes the very unusual transition from animation auteur...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”
ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES: Watch It At Home – Fun But Overextended Silliness ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES runs 119 minutes, which is rather too much of a not-bad thing (the original Anchorman, in 2...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “The Predator” & “Greta”
FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (Midwestern – opens September 21): In the course of Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore takes a shot at Jeff Zucker and Les Moonves for admitting that Donald Trump has been good for their businesses, b...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “RED 2”
RED 2: Watch It At Home – Less Fizz in the Drink This Time The first RED was a disarming surprise, a rom-com action adventure about retired but very lethal spies as bubbly as it was explosive. It made almost $2...