PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED’S PILOT REPORT – “Zero Hour”
ZERO HOUR: Thursday 8PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert ZERO HOUR‘s pilot is an engaging piece of nonsense, but whether it can work as a continuing TV series is another question. The premise is a DaVinci Cod...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Taken 2”
TAKEN 2: Watch It At Home – “Particular Set of Skills” Indeed As silly sequels to mindless hits go, TAKEN 2 is fairly entertaining, at least for a while. The first movie, of course, was a sur...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”
As soon as Robert Redford had enough clout to start generating his own movies, he began starring in and often producing some of the best politically-themed films of the 1970s, including The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor�...
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 SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Banshee”
BANSHEE: Friday 10PM on Cinemax Alan Ball’s name is the one most often thrown about in connection with the new Cinemax series BANSHEE, and that’s understandable, what with him being the creator of True Bloo...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Grimm”
GRIMM: Monday 9PM thru Sept 10; Friday 9PM starting Sept 14 on NBC – Worth A Look WHERE WE WERE: Meeting Mom. Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) is a Portland homicide detective who’s also a “...
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...
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 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 SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Common Law”
A return to COMMON LAW for its season finale didn’t show any appreciable improvement from its unimpressive early episodes. Standards at USA Network aren’t exactly at the level of Sunday night on HBO, but Co...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin”
And then this happened. With BATMAN & ROBIN, the franchise that had been reclaimed for adults by Tim Burton in 1989 was turned back over to children (and not bright children) by Joel Schumacher in 1997. Schumacher ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS: Not At Any Price – Audiences Won’t Live Happily Ever After HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is mostly terrible, but say this for it: it’s not terrible like anyt...