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Peter Canavese

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Biography:

Since 1987, Peter "Groucho" Canavese has been writing film reviews and articles in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. Peter authors and maintains an exhaustive website called GrouchoReviews and is the chief film critic for monthly ON Magazine (since 1995), and Celluloid Dreams, a weekly radio show devoted to film (Celluloid Dreams runs on KSJS?90.5 FM?every Monday at 5pm). Since 2009, he has regularly contributed film reviews to Palo Alto Weekly. His reviews have also appeared in the San Jose Mercury News (1991-1994), in Bay Area weekly Alternate101 (2007-2008), and on Portland's 1190 KEX drive-time show Mark & Dave (2008).

Favorites:

Citizen Kane, Brazil, Duck Soup, Ikiru, North by Northwest, 8 1/2

Location:

San Jose, CA

Official Website:

http://www.grouchoreviews.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Green Planet: Season 1 (2022) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Shot in twenty-seven countries over three years using cutting-edge technologies, BBC One's The Green Planet focuses on plants, their livelihood amidst growing climate challenges, and their relationships with other species... [4K Blu-ray]” – Groucho Reviews Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 3 (1989) 100% 4/4 EDIT “As a whole, "The Best of Both Worlds" is as good as, if not better than, any of the feature films that would later star the Next Generation cast. ” – Groucho Reviews Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 2 (1988) 57% 3.5/4 EDIT “Season Two still has some clunkers -- including the series low "Shades of Gray," an embarrassing clip show to end the season -- but certainly more high points, including the crackerjack Holodeck story "Elementary, Dear Data."” – Groucho Reviews Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1 (1987) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “There's something to be said for the way these early episodes win fans and influence people by nostalgically evoking the colorful science-fiction theatrics of The Original Series.” – Groucho Reviews Jul 27, 2022 Full Review The Boys: Season 2 (2020) 97% 4/4 EDIT “A brutal, violent, funny, no-holds-barred satire of the U.S. government, mass media manipulation of public perception--and Hollywood. (Sony Home Entertainment blu-ray review).” – Celluloid Dreams Jul 21, 2022 Full Review The Dropout: Season 1 (2022) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “Addictive...traces that fine line between having hustle and being a hustler, a line we watch Holmes cross after being fed the exceptional stories of Silicon Valley disruptor culture.” – Groucho Reviews Mar 7, 2022 Full Review Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 1 (2019) 100% 3/4 EDIT “An Adult Swim show--a near-wordless, entirely visual narrative with a graphic novel earnestness. (Blu-ray review of Season One).” – Celluloid Dreams Jun 11, 2021 Full Review Supernatural: Season 15 (2019) 100% 3/4 EDIT “'Route 66' meets 'The X-Files' series which they pretty well stick the landing. 20 episode and final season with epic number of featurettes,” – Celluloid Dreams May 30, 2021 Full Review Snowpiercer: Season 1 (2020) 63% 3/4 EDIT “Retains all the social consciousness of the movie but it flattens the film's surrealism to something much more conventional, presumably to reach a broader audience. (Blu-ray Review)” – Celluloid Dreams Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Doom Patrol: Season 2 (2020) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Weird, unconventional, wildly imaginative, cheeky, very funny and highly skilled at self-reverential meta-comedy. (Blu-ray Review).” – Celluloid Dreams Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Into the Dark: Season 2, Episode 8 (2020) 2 EDIT “On balance most of it is just not that engaging.” – Celluloid Dreams May 19, 2020 Full Review Leave It to Beaver: Season 3 (1959) 4/4 EDIT “Each episode is the half-hour equivalent of a Norman Rockwell painting: a wry and affectionate look at archetypal American social roles and the family unit.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 27, 2020 Full Review Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (2006) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Battlestar Galactica has a complex but accessible mythology, a sprawling cast of strong character actors, and catchy mysteries.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 (2008) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The last ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica deliver plenty of puzzles, prophecies and dreams; answer questions and raise others; and pay off characters in satisfying and usually surprising ways.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 1 (2000) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Though a procedural somewhat in the vein of the Law & Order series, CSI punches up its storytelling with biologically invasive visual effects and a soapy interest in its characters' sexy private lives.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Supernatural: Season 4 (2008) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Supernatural's Season Four is literally apocalyptic, but that doesn't mean the series' writers have forgotten to crack wise and take comedic risks as well as storytelling ones.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Supernatural: Season 1 (2005) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Though the series' mythology is distinctly dark, there's also plenty of fun to be had in the relationship between the leading men and the unusual circumstances they face.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Torchwood: Season 1 (2006) 94% 3/4 EDIT “The hot-and-heavy dysfunctional workplace drama sometimes goes overboard (shouldn't these people have a tad more responsibility?), but the trappings are certainly cool.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Monk: Season 4 (2005) 3/4 EDIT “Even when the writers cheat or get lazy, though, the series is never less than amusing.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Monk: Season 6 (2007) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Though the family-friendly detective series Monk has wobbled a bit at times, its sixth season proves that the show remains on solid footing, with a writing staff still spinning crafty mysteries and inventing scenarios.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Star Trek: Enterprise: Season 4 (2004) 60% 3/4 EDIT “If not everything works in Enterprise's Season Four, it's certainly the most consistently entertaining and well-written season of the show.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Supernatural: Season 3 (2007) 88% 3/4 EDIT “As TV timewasters go, Supernatural can be awfully entertaining.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Supernatural: Season 8 (2012) 67% 3/4 EDIT “As long as Supernatural can deliver at least this well, it's welcome on my TV.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Rome: Season 2 (2007) 89% 4/4 EDIT “The writers are careful to make their most daring historical reaches plausible, consistent, and, of course, dramatically effective.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Torchwood: Season 3 (2009) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “[Russell T.] Davies and co-writers John Fay and James Moran load it up with enough surprises to keep jaws dropped and minds racing.” – Groucho Reviews Apr 21, 2020 Full Review
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