THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Real Steel”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Red, White & Retro
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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 ...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Bad Teacher” – Passable
> Worth A Ticket: Grade It On A Curve In 1999, Jake Kasdan directed a project set in high school that starred Jason Segel and featured Dave (Gruber) Allen in its ensemble; it was called Freaks and Geeks, and ...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: The Road Begins
> In September, SHOWBUZZDAILY will be attending the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, for short). This is the first in an intermittent series of pieces about the experience of TIFF-ing. Every film festival has it...
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 7/31/11
> Well, there’s something you don’t see every day: 2 studios both content to forego bragging rights for the Sunday weekend estimates and wait for actual numbers on Monday, when public attention is lower. (Note...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”
> Rodrigo Garcia’s film ALBERT NOBBS (he shares auteurship with Glenn Close, who served as screenwriter with John Banville and Gabriella Prekop and as a producer as well as star) caters to what used to be called the James...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Another Earth”
ANOTHER EARTH – Worth A Ticket: Tiny Story With Big Ambitions For ANOTHER EARTH, the Sundance Film Festival went exactly the way it’s supposed to. The low-key picture was made on a miniscule bud...
THE BIJOU RETROSPECTIVE: “Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix”
> The magically moving portraits are pulled off the walls of Hogwarts in 2007’s HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, and the colors have started draining from the Potter universe. Gone are the lush visuals of ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Sitter”
THE SITTER: Not At Any Price – Adventures In Bad Moviemaking Jonah Hill is awfully lucky to have made Moneyball this year. In that film, fueled by a brilliant Aaron Sorkin/Steven Zaillain script, he gave...
COUNTING TO 10: Best Spielbergs
> On the occasion of Super 8‘s release, the Top 10 movies directed by Steven Spielberg: 10. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974): His first feature film, it suggests that had he never touched a special effect in his life, S...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “My Week With Marilyn”
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN: Worth A Ticket – Michelle Williams is Spectacular, Movie Is Fine Harvey Weinstein has two movies on the way in the next couple of months featuring actresses who are presumptive...
THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 11/11/11
> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary boxoffice numbers for Friday, and early indications are good for IMMORTALS, which appears to have already earned $13.5-14M (including $1.4M from Thursday midnight screenings). That...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Haywire”
HAYWIRE: Worth A Ticket – For the Gasp-Inducing Fight Scenes Alone You might think that if a major, celebrated filmmaker were to take the extraordinary step of announcing, years in advance, that he ...