Year: 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

Aaron Eckhart To Lead BATTLE: LOS ANGELES

November 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Columbia Pictures has signed The Dark Knight co-star Aaron Eckhart to star in their big budget science-fiction/action picture Battle: Los Angeles. Eckhart will play the leader of a platoon of Marines battling an alien invasion [click for more]

Another New DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Poster

November 16, 2008 Rich Drees

Another new The Day The Earth Stood Still poster, this time for the international release, has popped up. This one seems to stress a little more action, with jet fighters screaming towards the mysterious spherical [click for more]

Review: QUANTUM OF SOLACE

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

Let’s face it. There are a lot of expectations sitting on this movie. When the James Bond franchise reinvented itself in 2006 with Casino Royale, audiences and critics were pleasantly surprised with its new found [click for more]

Forster To Document WORLD WAR Z

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

Marc Forster, whose Bond installment Quantum Of Solace opens in theaters today, has been hired by Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B to direct their adaptation of the Max Brooks zombie apocalypse novel World War [click for more]

New Releases: November 14

November 14, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

1. Quantum of Solace (3,451 Theaters, 106 Minutes, Rated PG-13): So powerful is Her Majesty’s Secret Service that when Mr. Bond arrives on the scene, all other movie studios give him plenty of room! The [click for more]

Watch New Pixar Short BURN-E Now

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

UPDATE: OK, maybe not…. One of the great things about DVDs from Pixar is the inclusion of a new short animated film. This coming Tuesday’s release of Pixar’s summer hit Wall-E will feature a short [click for more]

Behold The Second WATCHMEN Trailer

November 14, 2008 Rich Drees

I just got back from an early evening screening of Quantum Of Solace (more on that tomorrow afternoon), where we also got to see the new Watchmen trailer, embedded below. If the first trailer was [click for more]

Michael Moore’s Next Film Takes Aim At The Economy

November 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Documentarian Michael Moore’s work has always depended on the prevailing political climate. It should come as no surprise that Moore’s currently in production next film is changing focus from foreign policy to the current financial [click for more]

DARK KNIGHT Score Knocked From Oscar Contention On Technicality

November 13, 2008 Rich Drees

The executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Science’s music branch has disqualified the score for this past summer’ blockbuster The Dark Knight over what amounts to a technicality. Although composers Hans [click for more]

Pegg And Frost Team For Road Trip In PAUL

November 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Forget Nixon/Frost. I’m more looking forward to the next Pegg/Frost collaboration. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the stars of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, are teaming for a third film, Paul, a road [click for more]