THE BIJOU REVIEW: “One Day”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Beautiful Creatures”
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: Watch It At Home – Many Witches, Little Magic BEAUTIFUL CREATURES can’t be dismissed as merely an overlong TV episode meant for the CW, but it never really comes together, either. Ric...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Dexter”
Although there was plenty more going on–too much, in fact–it was fitting that Season 7 of DEXTER came down, in the end, to the women in Dexter Morgan’s life. One could even say that this season might ...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”
> Lynn Shelton’s Humpday in 2009 was one of the most engaging pictures to come out of the mumblecore movement (“mumblecore,” for the uninitiated = ultra-low-budget, small scale film with dialogue mostly improv...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Upstream Color”
UPSTREAM COLOR: Worth A Ticket – But Not If You Require Coherent Plotting I’d be lying if I said I really knew what the hell was going on in UPSTREAM COLOR, and yet the experience of watching it was surpris...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”
> If you were going to describe the films of Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) in one word, that word would not be “dynamic.” Or “kinetic.” ...
PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “Ben & Kate”
BEN & KATE: Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX – Worth A Look However it may fare in the ratings, this fall’s FOX Tuesday schedule is a model lesson in what a smoothly engineered line-up looks like. At 9:30...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”
> In just her second feature film as a director (her first was 2006’s Oscar-nominated Away From Her), Sarah Polley demonstrates that she’s already a filmmaker with rare grace and sensuality in TAKE THIS WALTZ, which...
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Breaking Dawn Part I”
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Fault In Our Stars”
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS: Worth A Ticket – John Green’s Beloved Book Is Well Treated By the Screen It’s almost impossible to describe the plot of John Green’s YA novel THE FAULT IN OUR STARS witho...
THE BIJOU: “Submarine”
> Worth A Ticket: A teen movie unlike any other. Richard Ayoade’s emotionally rich SUBMARINE is shaping up as one of the sadder stories of the indie boxoffice season. It was greeted rapturously at the Toronto...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Deception”
DECEPTION: Monday 10PM on NBC A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, ...