Year: 2005 | FilmBuffOnline

Review: HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

April 30, 2005 Rich Drees

There’s no way I can write an objective review about this movie. I first read British writer Douglas Adams’s comic science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – an adaptation of his radio series [click for more]

review: KUNG FU HUSTLE

April 22, 2005 Rich Drees

Judging from box office history, American audiences seem to be ethnocentric to a point to where they are adverse to films with subtitles. That’s a shame, because these people will probably pass right by the [click for more]

Backwards And Forwards With Todd Solondz

April 13, 2005 FilmBuffOnline Staff

A look at director Todd Solondz’s new film Palindromes.

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Review: FEVER PITCH

April 10, 2005 John Gibbon

When is a baseball movie not really about baseball? And when is a Farrelly Brothers movie not really a Farrelly Brothers movie? The answer can be found in the new romantic comedy Fever Pitch – [click for more]

A Century of Crawford

March 23, 2005 John Gibbon

Joan Crawford was a fine cut jewel during her long career in Hollywood. She had many facets to her work and shined on all occasions. Of course there were a couple of minor flaws and [click for more]

Review: BE COOL

March 4, 2005 Rich Drees

“Sequels,” former loan shark turned movie producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) ruefully muses in the opening moments of Be Cool, a sequel to the 1995 comedy Get Shorty. “The only time I ever gave into [click for more]

Franchot Tone: Sophisticated Gentleman, Debonair Rebel

February 27, 2005 John Gibbon

When you see him now, you know you are witnessing a physically handsome embodiment of sophistication. A true actor in every definition, he gave himself freely to the roles he portrayed onscreen. Sadly, it was [click for more]

Review: CONSTANTINE

February 18, 2005 Rich Drees

John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) is a damned man and he knows it. Cursed with the ability to see the agents of heaven and hell who walk our world trying to influence mortals to good or [click for more]

Early, Racier Version of Stanwyck’s BAY FACE Discovered

February 15, 2005 Rich Drees

A racier, pre-release version of Baby Face (1933), already one of the most notorious of all the films of Hollywood’s Pre-Code era, has recently been discovered in the Library of Congress’s film archives. Baby Face [click for more]

Review: ELEKTRA

January 15, 2005 Rich Drees

It is perhaps inevitable that some will compare Elektra with last year’s Daredevil since the former is a spin-off from the latter comic book adaptation. It would be a fair comparison too, as both films [click for more]