Month: September 2010 | FilmBuffOnline

Liam Neeson To Command BATTLESHIP

September 7, 2010 Rich Drees

I have to admit that I have not been all that interested in Peter Berg’s upcoming film Battleship. I could never figure out logically why a story about the navy defending the planet from attacking [click for more]

Portman Offered Lead in Cuaron’s GRAVITY

September 7, 2010 Rich Drees

In the wake of strong positive reviews of her work in Darren Aronofski’s Black Swan which premiered at the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals this past week, Natalie Portman has reportedly been offered the lead [click for more]

A Peek At Boorman’s Animated OZ Project

September 7, 2010 Rich Drees

A long while back in was announced that director John Boorman was working on an animated version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, and then very little was heard of the project [click for more]

Financing Has Collapsed For Gilliam’s QUIXOTE

September 7, 2010 Rich Drees

Last month, we reported that director Terry Gilliam had encountered a small “hiccup” with the financing for his long planned project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Unfortunately, it now looks as if either Gilliam [click for more]

Upcoming APOCALYPSE NOW Blu-ray Restores Aspect Ratio

September 6, 2010 Rich Drees

If you haven’t had the opportunity to see Francis Ford Coppolla’s Apocalypse Now in a theater, you haven’t seen the full picture that the director shot. I’m not talking about the film having footage edited [click for more]

The ALIEN Prequels: What We Know

September 6, 2010 Rich Drees

In conjunction with the British blu-ray release of Robin Hood, director Ridley Scott gave an interview to The Independent, which ended with some details about his upcoming Alien prequels. Some of it is previously known, [click for more]

JUDGE DREDD Adds Olivia Thirlby

September 6, 2010 Rich Drees

Juno and The Wackness co-star Olivia Thirlby has been cast in the recently retitled Dredd, the new adaptation of the British comic series Judge Dredd. Thirlby will be playing Judge Cassandra Anderson, a member of [click for more]

Time Marches On At MoMA

September 3, 2010 John Gibbon

Long before Jon Stewart’s success in dramatizing the news, the American public was captivated by The March of Time. Launched on radio in 1931 after Time Inc’s Roy E. Larsen hired actors to play up [click for more]

Review: MACHETE

September 3, 2010 Rich Drees

Danny Trejo has long been a member of director Robert Rodriguez’s stock company of actors, usually cast as a glowering henchman to a film’s lead badguy, but he has had a chance to play off [click for more]

Catching A Fox At Lincoln Center

September 3, 2010 John Gibbon

The last days of summer are winding down and you’re wondering what to do this Labor Day weekend? Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, with help from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has brought together [click for more]