THE BIJOU REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Saturday Numbers – 12/24/11
> As is traditionally the case, movie boxoffice declined sharply on December 24, the lowest ebb of the holiday period. According to Deadline, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Paramount) remains #1, with $5.6M o...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “A Better Life”
A BETTER LIFE – Watch It At Home: Earnest Isn’t Enough Impending disaster hangs over every early scene of Chris Weitz’s new film A BETTER LIFE. As soon as we’re introduced to Carlos ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Young Adult”
YOUNG ADULT: Worth A Ticket – Theron + Oswalt = The Real Thing Charlize Theron plays the hell out of her character Mavis Gary in the new YOUNG ADULT. Theron has had a curious Hollywood career, with the usual big-...
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes – 8/19/11
> THE HELP will be the year’s first “serious” movie to gross over $100M. September is traditionally one of the softest months on the movie release calendar, and 2011 is no exception: although there...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger”
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER – Worth A Ticket: Marvel Goes Back To the Future There’s a certain irony in the fact that, in this summer of Super 8 and its Spielberg rapture, the most succes...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Happy Feet Too”
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”
J. EDGAR: Watch It At Home – Brokeback Hoover It’s a little unexpected that of all the films Clint Eastwood has directed, his new biography J. EDGAR most resembles The Bridges of Madison Count...
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...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Wednesday Studio Scorecard – 11/23/11
> The holiday movie season is not off to a roaring start. BREAKING DAWN PART 1: The giant franchise will of course win Thanksgiving weekend. But its $12.5M Wednesday gross was down 12% from what New Moon did on the ...
THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Let The (Show)Buzz Commence
> The Sundance Film Festival, like Toronto, issues its announcements about the films that will be screening in several stages. (Sundance’s sadism about actually obtaining tickets, however, is all its own.) Tod...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK – Not Even For Free: No, Really–Don’t Be Afraid FilmDistrict has gone out of its way to identify co-writer/co-producer Guillermo del Toro with DON’...