Rich Drees | FilmBuffOnline

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: 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]

INCREDIBLE HULK Poster

April 14, 2008 Rich Drees

While we have been indunated with advertising for the upcoming superhero flicks Iron Man and The Dark Knight, the summer’s third four color cinematic adaptation, The Incredible Hulk, has been flying realtively low to the [click for more]

DVD Review: Fox Noir- BLACK WIDOW, DAISY KENYON, DANGEROUS CROSSING

April 13, 2008 Rich Drees

Making a welcome return to shelves recently after a far too long absence is Fox’s Film Noir DVD line in the form of Black Widow (1954), Daisy Kenyon (1947) and Dangerous Crossing (1953). While I [click for more]

THE SPIRIT Pics: Jackson and Johansson

April 11, 2008 Rich Drees

As we countdown to next weekend’s release of the teaser trailer for Frank Miller’s upcoming adaptation of the comic hero The Spirit, Lionsgate has released two cast photos from the film. They feature Samuel L. [click for more]

DVD Review: LIONS FOR LAMBS

April 10, 2008 Rich Drees

When the film Lions For Lambs was released last fall to a response that was deafening in its silence, conservative pundits immediately leapt to the attack claiming that its box office failure was due to [click for more]

Want To Read A Bit Of Stone’s Bush Bio-Pic Script?

April 9, 2008 Rich Drees

On Monday, we told you about the Hollywood Reporter passing copies of the script to controversial director Oliver Stone’s forthcoming President George W. Bush bio-pic W to several Bush biographers for their reaction. Now, the [click for more]

AintItCool Scores DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Script Review

April 9, 2008 Rich Drees

The folks over at AintItCool News have landed the first review of the upcoming remake of the 1950s classic The Day The Earth Stood Still, and it doesn’t look pretty. How bad is it? To [click for more]

PFF Review: MONGUL

April 8, 2008 Rich Drees

The first in a proposed trilogy of films charting the life of the warlord Genghis Khan, Sergei Bodrov’s film Mongol feels like an echo of the great historical epics from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Mongol strips [click for more]