THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Real Steel”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”
REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Person Of Interest”
> 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...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Charlie’s Angels”
> 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...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Terra Nova”
> 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...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Killer Elite”
KILLER ELITE: Watch It At Home – Neither Killer Nor Elite The new KILLER ELITE takes little from Sam Peckinpah’s 1975 action movie apart from its title (Peckinpah used “The” in his) and the gene...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – CBS’s “Person Of Interest”
> 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: “Straw Dogs”
STRAW DOGS: Watch It At Home – Pointless In Every Way Forget about the artistic comparisons, the insult to film history, and the lack of respect to a great filmmaker no longer with us. There’...
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 BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “The Raid”
> TIFF’s Midnight Madness program is exactly what you think it is: 10 flat-out, unapologetic genre movies that premiere each night at midnight in front of a raucous crowd at the 1200-seat Ryerson Theatre. In a...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Colombiana”
COLOMBIANA – Not Even For Free: Even the Body Count Is Dull For a movie from the Luc Besson House of Action, COLOMBIANA is surprisingly listless and dispirited. Besson first came to prominence as a direc...