THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Dark Shadows”
DARK SHADOWS: Watch it At Home – Loving Detail Isn’t Enough DARK SHADOWS is one of the most confounding big-budget movies of recent years. When Tim Burton (and his muse, Johnny Depp, one of the fil...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “30 Minutes Or Less”
30 MINUTES OR LESS – Watch It At Home: Doesn’t Deliver The frustration of 30 MINUTES OR LESS is that of all the R-rated comedies this summer, it was the one with the most original premise and promisi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Happy Feet Too”
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Gone”
GONE: Not Even For Free – Gone? Not Soon Enough When was the last time you saw a non-ironic, non-parody movie where someone was sneaking around in a room belonging to a possible villain, se...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Savages”
SAVAGES: Watch It At Home – Great Book, OK Movie Don Winslow’s novel SAVAGES is one of the extraordinary reads of recent years. The plot may sound unremarkable–a mini-war is waged between a couple o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Black and White”
BLACK AND WHITE – no current US distributor or release date – Not Even For Free BLACK AND WHITE was reportedly drawn from events in its writer/director Mike Bender’s own life, which makes it remarkable,...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”
SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING: The Office, for depressives. Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the most anonymous member of a nondescript shipping department in a small Oregon town, wrapped in so many layers of emotional insulat...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cars 2”
CARS 2 – Watch It At Home: Pixar Shifts Into Second Gear CARS 2 is preceded by a short subject, the first in what’s intended as a series called Toy Story Toons. Entitled Hawaiian Vacation, it features all...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Machine Gun Preacher”
MACHINE GUN PREACHER: Watch It At Home – A True Story Rings False MACHINE GUN PREACHER simply isn’t good enough for the story it wants to tell. And the story, a true one, is remarkable: Sam Child...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: Worth A Ticket – David Fincher Meets Lisbeth Salander The most remarkable thing about David Fincher’s version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (written for the Engl...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mirror Mirror”
MIRROR MIRROR: Not Even For Free – 7 Years Bad Luck When it was announced that 2012 would bring two big-budget movie versions of the Snow White story, not to mention TV’s Once Upon A Ti...