SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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...
THE BIJOU: Captain America: The First Boxoffice
> The Hollywood Reporter has some rough early numbers for Friday’s boxoffice, and the news looks good for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Including Thursday midnight grosses of $4M, it seems to be around $...
PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Review – CW’s “The Tomorrow People”
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: Wednesday 9PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… THE TOMORROW PEOPLE is CW sticking with the CW playbook. The word “rip-off” may be a st...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Supergirl”
SUPERGIRL: Monday 8PM on CBS (premiere at 8:30PM tonight) – In the Queue SUPERGIRL is more thrilling as an experiment in network scheduling than as a TV show. There’s nothing terribly wrong with the ser...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Green Lantern” – Shining Not So Bright
> Watch It At Home: For Fans of Florescent Green Another summer weekend; another superhero epic. What used to be an extravagant event genre is now hard-pressed to muster more than a yawn. What is there to say ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Flash”
THE FLASH: Tuesday 8PM on CW Previously… on THE FLASH: Mild-mannered civilian police investigator Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) comes out of an encounter with a particle accelerator and a freak storm, and finds hi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Tim Burton’s “Batman Returns”
After the gigantic success of Batman, Tim Burton went on to direct Edward Scissorhands, which although naturally a smaller level of hit, was enormously important to Burton’s career, because it was a very personal p...
THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: CW’s “The Flash”
THE FLASH: Tuesday 8PM on CW starting October 7 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS: Series Creators/Executive Producers Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns, the first 2 of whom are also creators...
PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CW’s “Arrow”
ARROW: Wednesday 8PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On It’s Comic-Con week in San Diego, and while we here don’t participate in that particular hullabaloo (waiting for hours just to see a trailer that’...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Gotham”
GOTHAM: Thursday 8PM on FOX Coming off its most satisfying season to date, the first where it seemed to have some control over its sprawl, GOTHAM has been given a new timeslot on Thursdays for its 4th season, and the s...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight”
If THE DARK KNIGHT had no superhero or comic book trappings–if The Joker were scarred but not hideously made up, and Batman were a bit lower-tech and merely disguised rather than wearing a cowl and cape–Chris...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Awaits the Witching Hour – 5/3/12
> It seems like only yesterday that we were reviewing the records for midnight openings (actually, it was March 23, when The Hunger Games opened with a 7th-highest $19.7M Thursday midnight–the highest ever for a non-seque...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Arrow”
The success of ARROW was a big win for CW and for DC Comics this season. The appeal of CW’s single-girl soaps was running thin, while DC has been reeling from the otherworldly success of arch-rival Marvel’s...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Thor: The Dark World”
THOR: THE DARK WORLD: Watch It At Home – The Universe Is In Danger! (Yawn) Massive superhero adventures are now so plentiful that they’re a genre unto themselves. Within Marvel’s Avengers universe, ...