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Michael Caine Spoils ITALIAN JOB Cliffhanger

December 9, 2008 Rich Drees

Warning: Spoilers for the 1969 version of The Italian Job ahead. The original The Italian Job ends on a literal cliffhanger. The gang of thieves is in a bus which is perched precariously on the [click for more]

Jason Miller Gets Honored In Scranton

December 1, 2008 Rich Drees

Playwright and actor Jason Miller will be honored today in Scranton, PA with the unveiling of a bust sculpted in his honor. The bronze bust, sculpted by Miller’s longtime friend and fellow actor Paul Sorvino, [click for more]

This is The End…

November 25, 2008 Rich Drees

No, not the end of FilmBuffOnLine, but a collection of end title cards from various films that is being put together over on Flickr. There are already over 100 different ways letting audiences know that [click for more]

STAR TREK Going IMAX, Is This Just A Fad?

November 24, 2008 Rich Drees

It looks as if J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot is going where no Trek film has gone before- IMAX screens. According to a report over at First Showing, the film will only have a [click for more]

Geek Gear: TIME BANDITS Map

November 24, 2008 Rich Drees

Geek Gear- Something so absolutely geeky you have no choice but to acquire one as quickly as possible. So you’re being drug across history by a group of little people who turn out to be [click for more]

Don’t Feed The Plants!! LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Original Ending

November 20, 2008 Rich Drees

Today, alternate beginnings and endings of films are a standard feature on DVDs. But that wasn’t always the case. Back in the early days of the format, 1998 specifically, studios were just starting to discover [click for more]

Happy 80th Birthday Mickey Mouse!

November 18, 2008 Rich Drees

It was 80 years ago today that the cartoon short Steamboat Williepremiered at the 79th Street Theater in New York City. Created and directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, the film introduced the world to [click for more]

Howard Stern: Marvel Superhero!?

November 18, 2008 Rich Drees

Howard Stern starring in a Marvel Comics superhero movie? It almost happened according to a revelation the talk show host stated this morning on his Sirius-XM Satellite Radio program. Stern was chatting with a caller [click for more]

Trippin’ With The Monkees’ HEAD 40 Years Later

November 12, 2008 Rich Drees

I’ve often been struck by the size of the cultural and artistic changes that the 1960s saw. The best way I’ve found to really get a grip on the enormity of those changes is to [click for more]

Happy Halloween From Orson Welles

October 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Seventy years ago this evening, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre Of The Air radio program presented their Halloween episode, an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ (no relation) novel War Of The Worlds. Much has [click for more]