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City on a Hill Pilot Recap: “Only the Bad Understand”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:00:41 +0000

Showtime’s new crime drama City on a Hill arrives with an impressive pedigree, good writing, and strong performances. Unfortunately, it follows in the footsteps of a lot of similar TV shows and may struggle to set itself apart. Some of those TV shows came from the same creative team. Show-runner Tom Fontana and producer Barry...

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‘Shades of Blue’ Pilot Recap: “You Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Cop”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:00:13 +0000

NBC’s new cop drama ‘Shades of Blue’ has several strikes against it right off the bat. For starters, it stars a pop star/Reality show judge few people take seriously as an actress anymore. The pilot episode is also directed by a washed-up filmmaker who hasn’t made a movie anybody wanted to see in nearly twenty...

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‘Rock the Kasbah’ Review: Messy Murray Misfire

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:00:09 +0000

Bill Murray is such a singularly hilarious and major talent that it can be easy to forget that he’s just as capable of delivering a stinker as anyone else. After all, the man did co-star with an elephant once. He can’t save every project by merely being Bill Murray. Unfortunately, ‘Rock the Kasbah’ is one...

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‘The Humbling’ Review: A Very Pacino Meltdown

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:00:38 +0000

In some ways, ‘The Humbling’ plays like a darker sibling to recent Oscar nominee ‘Birdman’. Both films deal with over-the-hill actors experiencing mental breakdowns mid-production on a play, both favor an elastic sense of reality and delusion, and both feature strikingly similar sequences. Those resemblances likely explain why ‘The Humbling’ was essentially shelved and ignored...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Humbling’

Philip Brown — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:00:55 +0000

‘The Humbling’ serves up yet another film about the pains of being an aging white man delivered by a collection of famous aging white men. Generally speaking, that’s bad news. (See ‘Last Vegas’ for more.) However, this film manages to make a compelling case for the genre actually being worthwhile. It probably helps that two...

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New to VUDU: Week of November 13th, 2011

Josh Zyber — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:00:53 +0000

It’s another slow week in VUDU Town. Only a small handful of titles are being added to the streaming service. You know what that means – It’s time to dig into the back catalog to find something fun that can’t be gotten on Blu-ray yet. The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week: ‘The...

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