THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”
The 2nd season of HELL ON WHEELS was different, and perhaps somewhat better, than its first. (Behind the scenes, experienced producer John Shiban was brought on to showrun with series creators Joe and Tony Gayton.) I...
THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Trailer – “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. is The Big One, not just for ABC but for any network this fall. A spin-off of one of the most successful movies ever made (and part of a gigantically successful ongoing franchise), co-written and...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Green Lantern” – Shining Not So Bright
> Watch It At Home: For Fans of Florescent Green Another summer weekend; another superhero epic. What used to be an extravagant event genre is now hard-pressed to muster more than a yawn. What is there to say ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins”
To say BATMAN BEGINS successfully rebooted the Warners franchise is accurate, but incomplete. Christopher Nolan’s film, from the script he wrote with David S. Goyer, is a complete rethinking of the very concept o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “After Earth”
AFTER EARTH: Not Even For Free – The Smith Family In Outer Space In AFTER EARTH, Will Smith plays Cypher Raige, an emotionally austere father who withholds affection from his son because of his doubt that the boy...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
It was all so cute when it started… David Yates’ 2009 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is surprisingly funny at times–surprising, because in all other ways the film was, up to that point, by far t...
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Whatever one can say about Chris Columbus–and there’ll be plenty of less than glowing words about him below–he’s the man who cast Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the leads in 200...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grimm”
The second season of NBC’s GRIMM was considerably more satisfying than its first, although it did show the strain of trying to establish a series mythology. The season’s final episode (really, last weekR...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger”
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER – Worth A Ticket: Marvel Goes Back To the Future There’s a certain irony in the fact that, in this summer of Super 8 and its Spielberg rapture, the most succes...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Impossible”
THE IMPOSSIBLE – Worth A Ticket – A Tsunami Film With Both Spectacle and Emotion Director Juan Antonio Bayona has done a spectacular job of re-creating the 2004 Asian tsunami in THE IMPOSSIBLE. Staged...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Red, White & Retro
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”
FALLING SKIES: Sunday 10PM on TNT FALLING SKIES is, for TNT, the series Syfy needs and doesn’t seem to be able to pull off. As futuristic adventure sagas go, there’s nothing innovative about it, or even s...