Month: April 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

This Week’s Theatrical Releases

April 17, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

1. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2,798 Theaters, 112 Minutes, Rated R): One of the things I like most about Judd Apatow and his Repertory Theater is the loyalty they show each other. Apatow cast many of [click for more]

DVD Review: DIVA DOLOROSA and FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD, VOLUME 2

April 17, 2008 Rich Drees

When I popped the DVD for director Peter Delpeut’s Diva Dolorsa into the player, I didn’t know much about the film or the Dutch filmmaker. A quick search online shows that not many others do [click for more]

Yo Joe! First Look At GI JOE’s Scarlett

April 16, 2008 Rich Drees

One expects body armor to be form-fitting, but some how I doubt that this is really what the armed forces had in mind when developing such protection for the troops. Not that it matters though, [click for more]

X-FILES Sequel Gets A Title

April 16, 2008 Rich Drees

This summer’s upcoming X-Files film, a sequel to the long-running TV series as well as the 1998 spin-off feature film, finally has a title. X-Files: I Want To Believe. Although franchise creator Chris Carter had [click for more]

Weinsteins Moving Forward With SEVEN SAMURAI Redo

April 16, 2008 Rich Drees

The proposed remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic The Seven Samurai is moving forward. Although there are still no stars or director attached to the project, the studio hopes to have it in front of [click for more]

PFF Review: THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM

April 15, 2008 Rich Drees

It seems almost inconceivable that fans of Hong Kong action cinema have had to wait nearly two decades for its biggest stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, to appear on screen together. It is just [click for more]

EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL A Big Hit In Korea?!

April 15, 2008 Rich Drees

I don’t know what surprises me more- That there is a South Korean production of Evil Dead: The Musical playing nightly to sold out audiences or that those audiences are made up of 90% women. [click for more]

Breaking News: Ollie Johnston Has Died

April 15, 2008 Rich Drees

Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men, passed away yesterday, April 14, 2008 in Sequim, Washington. He was 95. As a member of the group that studio founder Walt Disney [click for more]

PFF Review: STRANDED – I’VE JUST COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED IN THE MOUNTAINS

April 14, 2008 Michael McGonigle

So many times, when film footage is recreated for a documentary, it has none of the power that actual film footage has. And the recreated footage usually does not have the dramatic power normally associated [click for more]

PFF Review: STORM

April 14, 2008 Rich Drees

The Wachowski Brother’s Matrix trilogy has many cinematic sins to atone for. The Swedish movie Storm is one of those sins. Donny (Eric Ericson) is a writer who suddenly finds himself caught up in events [click for more]