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...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Family Album”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots FAMILY ALBUM was one of the more buzzed-about FOX pilots of this past development season, and although it’s not on the network’s announced schedule, Deadline reports that it’s ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Cabin In the Woods”
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: Watch it At Home – Clever and Culty Seeing THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is sort of like being in Fight Club: the first rule is not to talk about it. Or, at least, not to reveal any of...
THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “30 Rock”
30 ROCK: Thursday 8PM on NBC WHERE WE WERE: Jack (Alec Baldwin) was divorcing his now-freed North Korean prisoner wife Avery (Elizabeth Banks). Jenna (Jane Krakowski) was engaged to her Jenna-impersonator boyfriend...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Butter”
> Jim Field Smith’s comedy BUTTER, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, ambitiously makes a play for both the heartwarming indie Little Miss Sunshine audience and the satire-minded Election crowd. That may ...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “How To Be A Gentleman” – PREMIERING TONIGHT
> 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 criti...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Wanderlust”
WANDERLUST: Watch It At Home – Hippy Jokes Thawed Out From 1966 The new WANDERLUST demonstrates the strengths and limitations of amiability in movies. Its stars, Jennifer Aniston and Paul R...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Californication”
> CALIFORNICATION lost a step this season, which is what often happens when a series of limited scope reaches Year 5. Unlike other Showtime series like Weeds and Dexter, Californication has never had the appetite for seas...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Glee”
GLEE: Thursday 9PM on FOX WHERE WE WERE: Post-graduation, post-national title, watching a lot of regulars on their way out of high school: Rachel off to NY and NYADA, Kurt to neither, Finn to the Army, Puck to LA, ...
THE SKED MIDSEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Bunheads”
Within the first two minutes of its midseason premiere tonight, BUNHEADS featured a Harold Clurman gag. For those not up on their celebrated left-wing Depression-era theatre directors, Clurman was–well, yeah. (...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “New Girl”
It’s not all that unusual for a TV comedy to improve during the course of its first season, as it discovers its distinctive comic voice (that was the case with Happy Endings, and The Office as well).�...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suburgatory”
SUBURGATORY: Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Meeting Grandma. In the season finale, having survived her first year in the titular Chatswin, Tessa (Jane Levy) met her long-absent mother’s mom–on M...