Everybody's a critic

If there's one factor film students love a lot more than watching movies, it's discussing their opinions of movies. Just Seen It, began by recent U. of Los Angeles film school graduate David Freedman, enables a team of latest USC grads and current masters and doctoral film students to complete exactly that. The Needed Seen It group creates, shoots and produces short reviews of films and Television shows a la Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper's "In the Movies." Placing a contempo spin on individuals shows, Just Seen It suits a more youthful demo with internet video reviews along with a three-part rating system: view it, stream it or skip it. Shot in the manner you'd expect film students to interrupt lower a film they have just seen -- over drinks having a couple of close buddies -- Just Seen It reviews major movies and new Television shows and champions "great finds,Inch lesser-known films and shows near and dear for their hearts. Some recent reviews include "Moneyball," which gained a "View It!Inch and "Contagion," which got a "Stream It!" In December, Freedman, who now works best for Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium shingle, and the buddies were searching to meet the increasing demand left through the now-defunct "In the Movies." There "wasn't a very intelligent and entertaining and contentions movie show," on television, he stated. They looked the concept for any Just Seen It Television show around and located a cable network which was interested. The internet eventually backed out, but Freedman and the buddies did not quit. Now JustSeenIt.com has about 40,000 hits each week, 500 registered customers, and also the team just published the 100th review towards the site. Although the Internet hosts Just Seen It for the time being, Freedman eventually hopes to determine Just Seen It on television. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com