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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Zero Dark Thirty”

ZERO DARK THIRTY: Worth A Ticket – The Year’s Most Gripping Thriller Is True You already know how ZERO DARK THIRTY ends. You knew how All the President’s Men ended, too, and Apollo 13 and Titanic. ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hyde Park on Hudson”

To address the very specific elephant in HYDE PARK ON HUDSON‘s room: it’s no King’s Speech. It’s hard to avoid the comparison, because the two movies have a clear overlap, Hyde Park being t...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lawless”

LAWLESS: Watch It At Home – A Moonshine War To Make You Long for “Boardwalk Empire” Director John Hillcoat specializes in stark, emotionally distanced pulp, and if that sounds like a contradiction in ...

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The Sked: Cable Ratings April 17-23

>History’s Pawn Stars tops this week’s cable chart, with a 2.0 rating from 10:00-10:30 pm Monday with Adults 18-49. Usually the 10:30 pm Pawn Stars is slightly higher rated (up a tenth of a rating point or two...

by Mitch Metcalf

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Sarah’s Key”

SARAH’S KEY – Watch It At Home: Misses a Difficult Mark There may be no cinematic minefield more dangerous for filmmakers than the Holocaust. For films entering that difficult territory, the...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: “Hatfields & McCoys” Blows Up The Record Books – Again

It’s not exactly a surprise that History’s HATFIELDS & MCCOYS had another spectacular ratings night with its conclusion on Wednesday. The show actually went up from its record-setting Part 1 audi...

by Mitch Salem

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

JACKIE (Fox Searchlight – December 9): The most impressive film of the festival thus far is director Pablo Larrain’s jewel-like examination of the realities and artifices behind our perceptions of history, ...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Vikings”

History Channel has been on quite a streak in its last two seasons. Its first foray into scripted television, the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys, was a surprise smash hit, as was this year’s follow-up The Bibl...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...

by Mitch Salem

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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�...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Django Unchained”

DJANGO UNCHAINED – Worth A Ticket – Pre-Civil War American History 101 With Professor Tarantino Quentin Tarantino is, when you think about it, the most successful avant-garde filmmaker in Hollywood. His tri...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

J. EDGAR: Watch It At Home – Brokeback Hoover It’s a little unexpected that of all the films Clint Eastwood has directed, his new biography J. EDGAR most resembles The Bridges of Madison Count...

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The Sked: Cable Ratings May 8-14

The NBA Playoffs are taking off for TNT, with Game 1 of the Western Conference semi-finals averaging a 3.1 rating with Adults 18-49 at 9:43 pm Monday (the Los Angeles Lakers getting pounded by the Oklahoma City Thunder). Thre...

by Mitch Metcalf

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THE SKED: A’Feudin’ and A-Watchin’

History Channel has to be awfully happy with its decision to get into the scripted programming business. Part 1 of HATFIELDS & MCCOYS (our review is here) premiered last night to the largest non-sports audience in ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Zero Dark Thirty”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hyde Park on Hudson”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lawless”

The Sked: Cable Ratings April 17-23

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Sarah’s Key”

THE SKED: “Hatfields & McCoys” Blows Up The Record Books – Again

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Vikings”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Django Unchained”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

The Sked: Cable Ratings May 8-14

THE SKED: A’Feudin’ and A-Watchin’

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