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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”

REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...

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SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

> Worth a ticket. They say that the definition of madness is repeating the same action with the expectation of a different result. But that diagnosis doesn’t allow for this: a man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up an...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Revolution”

REVOLUTION: Monday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… REVOLUTION is Falling Skies without aliens, The Walking Dead without zombies, Jericho… well, actually it pretty much is Jericho. We’ve all stro...

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THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Fringe”

The most paranormal thing about FRINGE, in the end, was that it actually survived 5 seasons on the air, as very possibly the lowest-rated series to be regularly renewed in the history of network television. (Made possi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Ender’s Game”

ENDER’S GAME: Watch It At Home – Breaks The Rules, But Doesn’t Win the Game You don’t often see a $110M (plus marketing) YA adventure, intended to kick off a new movie franchise, as resolutely o...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Haven”

Not even HAVEN‘s worst enemy would have wished on the series its season finale experience of the past few weeks. More serialized than ever before, the season was approaching its ending with a second-to-last episo...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

As bad as it is for a network when it launches a new series and no one shows up, in a way it has to be worse when the series premiere has a huge start–and then viewers drop away in droves once they’ve given i...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Terra Nova”

> 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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Novitiate,” “The Incredible Jessica James” & “Marjorie Prime”

NOVITIATE (Sony Classics): It’s not clear how much of an audience there can be for a dark drama set amid the physical and psychological hardships of a pre-Vatican II midwestern abbey, but Margaret Betts’s N...

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THE SKED PREMIERE + 1 REVIEW: “Orphan Black”

ORPHAN BLACK: Saturday 9PM on BBCAmerica The second hour of BBCAmerica’s ORPHAN BLACK continued to keep up the pace while gradually revealing its secrets. The very hardworking Tatiana Maslany this time got to a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Pacific Rim”

PACIFIC RIM: Watch It At Home – Even Michael Bay Might Say “Too Much” Why isn’t PACIFIC RIM a better movie? It’s a passion project for the tremendously talented co-writer (with Travis Be...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Prometheus”

PROMETHEUS: Worth A Ticket – For the Visual Splendor, Not the Plot Expectations were undoubtedly too high for PROMETHEUS. The Alien franchise (and notwithstanding Ridley Scott and co-writer Damon Lindelo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The 100″”

“There are no good guys,” titular Chancellor of post-apocalyptic Earth Abby Griffin (Paige Turco) told her teenage daughter Clarke (Eliza Taylor), who had supplanted her as de facto warrior queen of humanity,...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”

THE SURVIVOR (no distrib): So many films and television productions have tackled the subject of the Holocaust over the decades that it takes real effort to break through with a story that feels fresh. Barry Levinson&...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”

SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Revolution”

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Fringe”

SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Ender’s Game”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Haven”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Terra Nova”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Novitiate,” “The Incredible Jessica James” & “Marjorie Prime”

THE SKED PREMIERE + 1 REVIEW: “Orphan Black”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Pacific Rim”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Prometheus”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The 100″”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”

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