SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Way, Way Back”
THE WAY, WAY BACK: Watch It At Home – Modestly Engaging Coming-Of-Age Tale THE WAY, WAY BACK is one of the last real indie hopes for a original breakout hit this summer (it was a big buy out of Sundance, a $10M p...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Liberal Arts”
> Josh Radnor’s writing/directing debut happythankyoumoreplease, which played Sundance a couple of years ago, was a promising, entertaining NY-set romantic comedy-drama that hailed from the Woody Allen division of indie f...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Darkest Hour” & “Mudbound”
DARKEST HOUR (Focus/Universal – Nov. 22): A shameless piece of rabble-rousing Hollywood biography, directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten, and served hot on a platter to Oscar voters. The subjec...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Red Lights”
> Or if the title were a Jeopardy answer, the question would be: what should writer/director Rodrigo Cortes have paid attention to, before he typed “The End” on his script Red Lights wouldn’t have been a festi...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Very Good Girls”
VERY GOOD GIRLS is set in contemporary Brooklyn, but it’s shot (by Bobby Bukowski) with the kind of gauzy glow that suggests a European perfume commercial. It’s lovely to look at, but also mystifying and u...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Goats”
Virtually every screening at Sundance is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, and while these sessions can be informative and charming (although 3 questions that need never be asked again are How long did you shoot?...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “2 Days In New York”
In 2007, Julie Delpy wrote, directed and co-starred in 2 Days In Paris, a romantic comedy-drama featuring Adam Goldberg and herself as a couple who lived in NY and visited the title city for a tumultuous visit with her c...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Upstream Color”
UPSTREAM COLOR: Worth A Ticket – But Not If You Require Coherent Plotting I’d be lying if I said I really knew what the hell was going on in UPSTREAM COLOR, and yet the experience of watching it was surpris...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “For a Good Time, Call…”
> There’s a principled discussion to be had about whether the Sundance Film Festival should be featuring movies that are essentially low-budget Hollywood entertainments made outside the studio system. But that discussion ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Eight For Silver” & “The Sparks Brothers”
EIGHT FOR SILVER: Sean Ellis’s 19th century werewolf movie takes itself very seriously. Ellis has extensively revised the usual mythology of the genre: the full moon doesn’t figure into things, the were...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Celeste & Jesse Forever”
> The festival has its first crowd-pleaser in CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER, a light but heartfelt romantic comedy-drama in the Woody Allen vein. Written by Rashida Jones (who also stars as Celeste) and Will Mc McCormack (on hand a...