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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

SHAMELESS: Sunday 9PM on Showtime The Gallagher family is undergoing transitions as Season 4 of Showtime’s SHAMELESS begins, and the tone is considerably less rambunctious than in previous seasons. That’s...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “A Kid Like Jake” & “You Were Never Really Here”

A KID LIKE JAKE (no distrib): Silas Howard’s dramedy is a small-scale triumph, successfully navigating its way from a wry account of upper-middle-class Brooklynites Alex and Greg (Claire Danes and Jim Parsons) tr...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Skeleton Twins”

Star power makes all the difference in THE SKELETON TWINS. Craig Johnson’s dramedy (written with Mark Heyman) takes place in fairly commonplace territory, especially at Sundance: siblings bound together, whe...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere TV Review: “Here and Now”

HERE AND NOW: Sunday 9PM on HBO – In the Queue HERE AND NOW is sort of the Alan Ball/HBO version of The Fosters, which means that its characters are a generation older, it has a lot of sex, a lot of talk, and a l...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: “Hellion”

Of all the films in this year’s US Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Kat Candler’s HELLION was the one that most closely matched what’s become a festival template: Aggressively shaky handheld camerawork...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Family”

THE FAMILY: Sunday 9PM on ABC Previously… on THE FAMILY: Ten years after his disappearance and presumed death, a now-teen Adam Warren (Liam James) appears, freshly escaped from what he describes as a decade spe...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Finding Carter”

FINDING CARTER: Tuesday 10PM on MTV Previously… on FINDING CARTER: At 16, Carter Stevens (Kathryn Prescott) believed herself to be having a better-than-average adolescence, mostly due to a close bond with her e...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

Last week’s episode of NBC’s THIS IS US notched an impressive achievement: in Live + 7 ratings, it moved past Empire to become the highest rated drama on broadcast TV. Admittedly, L7 ratings aren’t ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Annapurna – November 30): Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight received a rapturous standing ovation at its Toronto premiere, and it’s unquestionably a beautiful piece of ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Summer Finale Review: “Chasing Life”

CHASING LIFE, which aired its not-quite-half season finale tonight, could better have been titled What Not To Do If You Get Cancer. That, in itself, isn’t a criticism: a story about a narcissistic idiot who get...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

REBEL IN THE RYE (no distrib): Danny Strong’s first film as a director is a biography of J. D. Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), and it hits all the Salinger bullet points: his early struggles to get published, his sp...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

This was a Toronto Film Festival unlike any other, and not just because I “attended” it from the laptop in my house. Toronto has become an important stop on the road to the Academy Awards, with 9 of the pas...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

MOTHERING SUNDAY (Sony Classics – Nov 19): Eva Husson’s film, adapted by Alice Birch from a Graham Swift novel, has many of the rote trappings of prestige costume drama. We’re back in the English co...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (Warners) – Opens September 19 – Worth A Ticket Jonathan Tropper’s very successful day job is writing seriocomic novels about families and romance that are distinguished by the...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Death of Stalin,” “I, Tonya” & “Kodachrome”

KODACHROME (no distrib): AKA that page of the indie movie playbook marked “Dysfunctional Family Road Trip To Redemption.” Jonathan Tropper (This Is Where I Leave You) wrote the script, and it has his nove...

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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “A Kid Like Jake” & “You Were Never Really Here”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Skeleton Twins”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere TV Review: “Here and Now”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE FILM REVIEW: “Hellion”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Family”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Finding Carter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

THE SKED Summer Finale Review: “Chasing Life”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Death of Stalin,” “I, Tonya” & “Kodachrome”

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