THE BIJOU: “Submarine”
> Worth A Ticket: A teen movie unlike any other. Richard Ayoade’s emotionally rich SUBMARINE is shaping up as one of the sadder stories of the indie boxoffice season. It was greeted rapturously at the Toronto...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Footloose”
FOOTLOOSE: Watch It At Home – Faithfully Reproduces the Original For Good and Bad 1980s week at the multiplex continues with a remake of FOOTLOOSE, a trip back to the territory of Herbert Ross’s 1984...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “90210”
90210: Monday 8PM on CW WHERE WE WERE: Mid car-crash. A truck was plowing into Dixon (Tristan Wilds), in a way that would surely kill an actor in the middle of contract renegotiations. Dixon’s love Adriana ...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Bunheads”
It helps if you think of BUNHEADS as a CG special effects spectacle, except in this case the CG special effects and spectacle are all in the sound of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s dialogue. Either you love herrapid-f...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s “Restless”
> Gus Van Sant has been making movies for 25 years, but Restless–apart from its technical polish–feels like the work of a Sundance newcomer. And one who’s been reading too much Salinger, while meanwhile wearin...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fun Size”
FUN SIZE: Not For Any Price – As Halloween Movies Go, John Carpenter’s Are Funnier FUN SIZE marks the feature directing debut of Josh Schwartz, but he’s hardly a neophyte, being the muscle behind (and...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Project X”
PROJECT X: Not Even For Free – Don’t RSVP How is it that no one has yet produced a 3D found-footage movie? You’d think the combination of the most (usually) mind-numbing gimmicks of the past ...