SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”
> Oren Moverman’s first film as a director, The Messenger, was a beautifully contained, emotionally detailed story about soldiers assigned to deliver tragic news to the families of the deceased. In his new film RAMP...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Fringe”
FRINGE: Friday 9PM on FOX WHERE WE WERE: The present, or at least a version of it where our Earth exists in multiple parallel near-duplicate dimensions, and “Observers” from the future make sure everythin...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Beauty and the Beast”
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...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Looper”
LOOPER: Worth A Ticket – Maybe Too Enthralling For Its Own Good Rian Johnson’s most salient trait as a filmmaker may be a tendency to get carried away. His first film, Brick, was a high school film...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Arrow”
The success of ARROW was a big win for CW and for DC Comics this season. The appeal of CW’s single-girl soaps was running thin, while DC has been reeling from the otherworldly success of arch-rival Marvel’s...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE: “Justified”
> FX’s Elmore Leonard-inspired crime drama JUSTIFIED really hit its stride in its second season last year, and now it’s back, trying to build on that very solid success. WHERE WE LEFT OFF: The redoubtable Mags...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battle Los Angeles”
Watch it at home. The deadliest weapon unleashed in BATTLE LOS ANGELES is its barrage of war-movie cliches. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but there’s this rag-tag group of Marines, led by a hard...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Banshee”
BANSHEE: Friday 10PM on Cinemax Previously… on BANSHEE: Through a series of coincidences not worth recounting, an ex-con (Antony Starr) has taken on the identity of Lucas Hood, who was killed on his way to beco...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Touch”
> TOUCH: Mondays 9PM on FOX, starting March 19 – Change the Channel FOX’s new series TOUCH got off to a very good start in the ratings with a “preview” episode last week (having American Idol as a ...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”
FALLING SKIES – Sunday 9PM on TNT WHERE WE WERE: On our way into a spaceship. The aliens have arrived, and contrary to what Executive Producer Steven Spielberg used to tell us, they’re not nice at ...