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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Aquarius”

How on earth is NBC going to bring back AQUARIUS next season? In the history of broadcast television, it may well be the lowest-rated series ever renewed by a major network, with viewership so abysmal that the show cou...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Pan Am” – PREMIERING TONIGHT

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Mad Men” (POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 11)

> The season premiere episode of MAD MEN wasn’t screened at PaleyFest tonight. Although the show airs a week from Sunday and virtually every other PaleyFest honoree screened an upcoming episode of its series, ...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 2 Capsule Reviews: “Snowden,” “American Pastoral” & “Carrie Pilby”

SNOWDEN (Open Road – Sept 16): Oliver Stone’s return to politically-charged biography is subdued by the standards of his Nixon or W. It’s a hagiography that follows the character arc of his Born of ...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

> WHERE WE WERE: Reeling from the news that Don Draper (Jon Hamm) had proposed to his French-Canadian secretary Megan (Jessica Pare). In other cubicles at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Joan (Christina Hendricks), pr...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

JACKIE (Fox Searchlight – December 9): The most impressive film of the festival thus far is director Pablo Larrain’s jewel-like examination of the realities and artifices behind our perceptions of history, ...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Magic City”

> MAGIC CITY: Premieres Friday April 6 at 10PM on Starz – Potential DVR Alert Starz’s new MAGIC CITY is another stroll down Mad Men lane: glamorous people in impeccably detailed 1960s settings (technical...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Downsizing” & “The Shape of Water”

DOWNSIZING (Paramount – Dec 22): Alexander Payne’s latest film (written with his usual partner Jim Taylor) is a delight–and a bit of a mess. On its face, Downsizing is a leap out of Payne and Taylor...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “Magic City”

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

BREATHE (Bleecker Street – Oct 13): BREATHE wasn’t the favored Triumph of the Human Spirit drama at Toronto this year; that title went to Stronger, with Jake Gyllanhaal as a survivor of the Boston Marathon ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Roma” & “Green Book”

ROMA (Netflix – Dec. 14): Alfonso Cuaron is one of the master filmmakers of this era, and Roma confirms that all over again. It’s a deceptively simple memory piece, a semi-autobiographical story set in th...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE NEST (no distrib): Sean Durkin’s first feature since 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene presents its emotions with such high-intensity beams that it often feels as though the film is going to slip into the...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

MAD MEN: Sunday 10PM on AMC And still–there’s MAD MEN. Even in an era of unparalleled TV drama, nothing else on the air is quite like Matthew Weiner’s masterwork, a TV series that simply isn’t...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Aquarius”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Pan Am” – PREMIERING TONIGHT

THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Mad Men” (POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 11)

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 2 Capsule Reviews: “Snowden,” “American Pastoral” & “Carrie Pilby”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Magic City”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Downsizing” & “The Shape of Water”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “Magic City”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Roma” & “Green Book”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

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