THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D”
STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D, to give it its fully identifying title, has the distinction of being the most successful movie ever made that is generally agreed to be terrible. Over $900M in ticke...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Safe House”
SAFE HOUSE: Watch It At Home – You’ve Seen It SAFE HOUSE feels like a remake, even though technically it’s not. It’s a little bit Training Day, a little Bourne, a little Man On Fire (and ev...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket - “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–has engu...
THE SKED: CBS Schedules NYC 22
> CBS was so confident in its returning schedule this season that it barely ordered any back-up shows (and it wasn’t far wrong). Its sole midseason drama, the high-profile cop drama now known as NYC 22 (after previo...
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: “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 SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Alcatraz”
> Previously… On ALCATRAZ: San Francisco cop Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), whose partner was recently killed, finds herself embroiled in a mysterious case in which an Alcatraz inmate from 40 years ago, apparently lo...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Alcatraz”
> 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...
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...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL: Worth A Ticket – Routine But Spectacular With MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, Brad Bird makes the very unusual transition from animation auteur...
