THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens”
COWBOYS & ALIENS – Watch It At Home: Genre Mash-Up Zaps Itself In the Foot It’s admirable, in a way, that for much of its length, COWBOYS AND ALIENS is willing to be more of a western than a scif...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “Fast & Furious 6”
It’s almost unheard-of for a franchise to need 5 installments to hit its stride, but that was the case with 2011’s Fast Five. After kicking around with its first, moderately successful quartet in various lo...
PATHWAY TO PROFITABILITY — The Studio View
>At ShowBuzzDaily we look at the movie year in three parts: the soft Winter/Spring year-part from January through April, the strong Summer season from May-August, and the slow-starting but soon sizzling Fall/ Holiday season fro...
A MIDSUMMER STUDIO’S REPORT CARD: Universal
> With a summer movie season bracketed by the first weekend in May on one end, and Labor Day on the other, we’ve reached the midpoint of 2011’s array of blockbusters, and for the next week, here at SHOWBUZZDAILY, we...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Change-Up”
> THE CHANGE UP – Watch It At Home: Cliches with Dirty Words Are Still Cliches There have been plenty of R-rated comedies this summer–a bumper crop, really–but none more fully committed to raunch than TH...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Contraband”
CONTRABAND: Worth A Ticket – Working-Class Thriller CONTRABAND is a B movie, but oddly enough, that’s one thing in short supply these days. Action movies in modern Hollywood usually c...
What Are Legendary, Dune and RatPac and Why Should We Care?
There is tumult in the movie business, we’re told. Reports warn that several studios as we know them are about to undergo seismic change for years to come. And why? Because Legendary Entertainment may shift i...