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Who Delayed ROGER RABBIT 2?

August 7, 2005 Rich Drees

Why there has been no sequel to one of the most popular animated films of the 1980s.

Edison’s FRANKENSTEIN: Cinema’s First Horror Film

August 7, 2005 Rich Drees

One of the most sought after short films by fans of the silent era is the 1910 production of Frankenstein from Thomas Edison’s Edison Studios. For many years the only image thought to exist from [click for more]

Review: THE DUKES OF HAZARD

August 6, 2005 Rich Drees

Bucking the trend of film adaptations of old television shows that feel compelled to place a post-modern twist on the material, the new big screen adaptation of the early 80s southern-fried series The Dukes Of [click for more]

Review: BAD NEWS BEARS

July 22, 2005 Rich Drees

Successful movies and sporting teams have much in common. Their success depends not so much on one or two star players, but on all the team members working at their peak towards their common goal, [click for more]

Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

July 15, 2005 Rich Drees

I first encountered candy-maker Willy Wonka and his imagination-defying chocolate factory growing up outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was about seven years old and the 1971 film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory starring Gene [click for more]

Review: FANTASTIC FOUR

July 9, 2005 Rich Drees

When a comic book film fails, it is sometimes because the filmmakers stray too far from the source material (see last summer’s Catwoman), losing what gave the characters their appeal and alienating the already built-in [click for more]

Review: HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

June 12, 2005 Rich Drees

Sophie is a timid young woman who spends her day in a small shop making hats and watching the trains that roll past her window. However, after a marketplace encounter with a mysterious and magical [click for more]

Review: HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

April 30, 2005 Rich Drees

There’s no way I can write an objective review about this movie. I first read British writer Douglas Adams’s comic science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – an adaptation of his radio series [click for more]

review: KUNG FU HUSTLE

April 22, 2005 Rich Drees

Judging from box office history, American audiences seem to be ethnocentric to a point to where they are adverse to films with subtitles. That’s a shame, because these people will probably pass right by the [click for more]

Review: BE COOL

March 4, 2005 Rich Drees

“Sequels,” former loan shark turned movie producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) ruefully muses in the opening moments of Be Cool, a sequel to the 1995 comedy Get Shorty. “The only time I ever gave into [click for more]