THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “World War Z”
WORLD WAR Z: Watch It At Home – Third Act Heroics, In More Ways Than One The travails of WORLD WAR Z on the way to the screen have been widely discussed, and in the end the misshapen, Frankenstein-like $200M (plu...
THE SKED: “True Blood” Keeps Gushing
> According to TV By the Numbers, the season premiere of TRUE BLOOD on Sunday night had 5.4 million viewers (a virtual tie with its all-time high) and a 3.0 rating in 18-49s (slightly below its previous high). Considering...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER – Not Even For Free – An Unconstitutional Offense Against Moviegoers Honestly: how is a movie called ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER not a comedy? It’s as if Wood...
THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Strain”
THE STRAIN: Sunday 10PM on FX – Potential DVR Alert Although capable of finer things (notably his Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth), the expert filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is one of those directors–you ...
THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “The Walking Dead”
It’s odd to think that the biggest hit on American television is centered around the flesh-eating undead, but enough about Fox News… THE WALKING DEAD is a genuine television phenomenon, in more ways than on...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fright Night”
FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home: At Least Farrell Had Fun The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials. Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...
THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Siberia”
SIBERIA: Monday 10PM on NBC Previously… on SIBERIA: What’s worse than being on yet another reality TV competition show? Being on one where unknown creatures are trying to kill you. The contestants on ...
THE SKED: FX Update
> The days when cable networks cowered from the might of the broadcast networks’ promotional machines and stayed away from Fall premiere season are over, and FX today announced start dates for its own Fall shows, in the w...
THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “666 Park Avenue”
666 PARK AVENUE: Sunday 10PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and re-scored, and in som...
THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Salem”
Sometimes one piece of casting is what it takes to turn a TV series around, and for SALEM, that was the arrival, about midway through the season’s 13 episodes, of Stephen Lang as the Reverend Increase Mather, fathe...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The River”
> 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 MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”
Among other things, the midseason finale of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES gets credit for the season’s most subversive use of Christmas carols, playing cheerily under ancient vampire Klaus (Joseph Morgan) as he first slaught...