Month: October 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

Extended WATCHMEN Trailer From Scream Awards

October 22, 2008 Rich Drees

Viewers of last night’s Spike TV’s Scream Awards got a look at an extended cut of the trailer for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen film. Among the new glimpses of the upcoming superhero epic include shots of [click for more]

Sam Raimi Continues To Taunt Me, Places EVIL DEAD 4 On Backburner

October 22, 2008 Rich Drees

Oh, Sam Raimi. Why must you taunt me so? I’ve long been a fan of the director’s work since I first saw Evil Dead 2 in college in 1988. His unique and energetic visual style places [click for more]

Marvel Studio Chief Talks More Hulk, Post-AVENGERS Slate

October 22, 2008 Rich Drees

While comic book movie fans have been excited by Marvel Studios gameplan to cross-pollinate their superhero films over the next few years, culminating in the summer of 2011 with the superhero teamup The Avengers, Marvel has already [click for more]

A Look At Ledger In DR. PARNASSUS

October 21, 2008 Rich Drees

Slash Film just posted this haunting and stunning picture of the late Heath Ledger in director Terry Gilliam’s upcoming The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus. I am not going to add anything. I’ll just leave it [click for more]

DOLEMITE Himself, Rudy Ray Moore, Has Passed Away

October 20, 2008 Rich Drees

Rudy Ray Moore, the raunchy comedian who had a brief career in the blaxploitation genre, has passed away yesterday, October 19, in Akron, Ohio from complications of diabetes. He was 81. Although Moore started his [click for more]

Nick Fury In IRON MAN 2? Sam Jackson Thinks So

October 20, 2008 Rich Drees

“Mr. Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. You just don’t know it yet… I’m here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative.” And with those words in the post-credits scene from this [click for more]

Steve Martin In EYES WIDE SHUT?!

October 19, 2008 Rich Drees

Eyes Wide Shut may be the last film from wunderkind director Stanley Kubrick – he passed away in 1999 while putting the final post-production touches on the project – but it is a film he [click for more]

Foreign Language Oscar Contenders Announced

October 19, 2008 Rich Drees

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the names of all the films that have met the qualifications for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards. A record [click for more]

Review: HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

October 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Director Mike Leigh’s films have almost always been more about the characters than the plot and Happy-Go-Lucky is no exception. More character sketch than anything else, Happy-Go-Lucky paints the portrait of Poppy, a middle class [click for more]

Review: SEX DRIVE

October 17, 2008 John Gibbon

Imagine my surprise when I was handed 3D glasses to see the upcoming comedy Sex Drive. I found the gesture a little suspicious, thinking this was an interesting, yet facetious ploy possibly rivaling the gimmicks [click for more]