Month: April 2007 | FilmBuffOnline

FilmBuff Goes To Philadelphia

April 12, 2007 Rich Drees

Regular updates have slowed down a bit as I have been at the Philadelphia Film Festival for the past week. Look for coverage with numerous film reviews in the next few days.

Perhaps since almost immediately after the beginning of athletic competition there have been stories of great competitors, those who fought the odds and overcame great obstacles to become champion in their chosen field. Even so, [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Festival 2007 Review: DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT

April 9, 2007 Rich Drees

Day Night Day Night is a movie that is going to aggravate and even infuriate many people. That’s because it challenges its audience to not think about the politics of terrorism but dares you to [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Festival Review: EXILED

April 8, 2007 Rich Drees

It would be easy to dismiss Hong Kong director Johnny To’s Exiled as yet another Asian gangster film dealing with themes of friendship, honor and loyalty. One could similarly dismiss High Noon as a just [click for more]

Roy Disney Talks SONG OF THE SOUTH

April 8, 2007 Rich Drees

A potential DVD release for the controversial 1946 Disney film Song Of The South got a voice of support last night from Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney. Speaking at the 16th Annual Philadelphia [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Festival 2007 Review: DIGGERS

April 8, 2007 Rich Drees

The mid-1970s are not a good time for the independent fishermen of Long Island who make their living digging clams. A large commercial firm has just closed a deal granting them exclusive rights to certain [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Fest Review: INVISIBLE WAVES

April 7, 2007 Rich Drees

Invisible Waves opens with a rather unorthodox lovers’ rendezvous. We can conclude from the dialogue that the woman is cheating on her husband, but we learn little more about either of the couple. This scene [click for more]

Review: GRINDHOUSE

April 6, 2007 Rich Drees

I suspect, more so than with your average film, one’s reaction to Grindhouse will depend on one’s willingness to buy into the film’s central premise- a recreation of seeing a double feature of exploitation films [click for more]

Eli Roth Goes To The GRIND HOUSE

April 3, 2007 Rich Drees

While discussing his upcoming film Hostel II with journalists at the New York ComicCon this past February, director Eli Roth talked a bit about the faux-trailer he created for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez’s up [click for more]

Mr. Blandings Goes To Toledo

April 2, 2007 Rich Drees

Hollywood has always been about ballyhoo, sometimes hyping its films through outlandish promotions designed to catch a moviegoers imagination enough to get them down to the local cinema and placing their cash into the boxoffice [click for more]