Month: September 2007 | FilmBuffOnline

Review: 3:10 TO YUMA

September 7, 2007 Rich Drees

All film genres go through cycles of popularity. At their height, the public’s hunger for them is insatiable. At their depths, they play to nearly empty houses, the public dismissing them with a memory for [click for more]

Stephen Chow’s Next- CJ7

September 7, 2007 Rich Drees

Having wowed audiences with the visual anarchy of Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow’s next film, title CJ7, certainly sounds as if it might be a more sedate affair. In it Chow plays [click for more]

This Week’s Theatrical Releases.

September 6, 2007 Bill Gatevackes

1. 3:10 to Yuma (2,652 Theaters, Rated R): I don’t know about you, but I like westerns. I’ll admit that they are an acquired taste, but it is definitely a taste I’ve acquired. Why do [click for more]

FIVE DEADLY VENOMS Remake A Go, Finally

September 6, 2007 Rich Drees

The long-rumored remake of the Shaw Brothers kung fu classic Five Deadly Venoms looks as if it finally has a start date, according to a story in the Beijing News. The film, being financed by [click for more]

TRON Director Lisberger Back With SOUL CODE

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

After nearly a two decade absence, writer/director Steven Lisberger, best known for his groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction/adventure film TRON, will be stepping back behind the camera with a new science-fiction project Soul Code for Reliant Pictures. [click for more]

HOTEL CHEVALIER Unreachable Via DARJEELING LIMITED

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

Wes Anderson’s 13-minute film Hotel Chevalier, which the director has stated is a prequel of sorts to his upcoming feature film The Darjeeling Limited, is reportedly not going to be running in front of Darjeeling [click for more]

DVD News: Unrated EYES WIDE SHUT

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

It has been confirmed that the upcoming DVD release of auteur Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut will contain both the R-rated version released in United States theaters plus the more sexually explicit unrated [click for more]

BAD LIEUTENANT Revisited

September 5, 2007 Rich Drees

We reported last week that producer Ed Pressman was working on a follow-up to his 1987 production Wall Street. Now, a report from the Los Angeles Times states that Pressman is revisiting another past project- [click for more]

DEATH PROOF International Posters

September 4, 2007 Rich Drees

Broken in half, perhaps by its less than stellar reception in the United States, the two halves of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse will be screening internationally as two separate films. An expanded version [click for more]