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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]

Halloween Film Of The Day: THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

October 28, 2008 Rich Drees

The Old Man And The Mountain may not have a strong scary storyline to it, but this Betty Boop cartoon put fear into the hearts of many who saw it. The cartoon was the third [click for more]

Geek Gear: Hello My Name Is Indigo Montoya T-Shirt

October 28, 2008 Rich Drees

Geek Gear- Something so absolutely geeky you have no choice but to acquire one as quickly as possible. While I like Rob Reiner’s charming fairy tale The Princess Bride, there was appoint when I was [click for more]

Halloween Film Of The Day: FRANKENSTEIN (1910)

October 27, 2008 Rich Drees

We’ve talked about Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein before here at FilmBuffOnLine. But there is no better film to kick off a week of films celebrating Halloween than this fifeteen minute feature from 1910, the first horror [click for more]

Geek Gear: BLADE RUNNER Light Up Umbrella

October 23, 2008 Rich Drees

Geek Gear- Something so absolutely geeky you have no choice but to acquire one as quickly as possible. Stuck in a neo-noir future Los Angeles with no hope of a new life on the Off [click for more]

Steve Martin In EYES WIDE SHUT?!

October 19, 2008 Rich Drees

Eyes Wide Shut may be the last film from wunderkind director Stanley Kubrick – he passed away in 1999 while putting the final post-production touches on the project – but it is a film he [click for more]

LA Times Archive On The True Story Behind CHANGELING

October 16, 2008 Rich Drees

Some of the early reviews for Clint Eastwood’s new film Changeling have noted that it is hard to believe the film’s claim that the events depicted in J. Michael Straczynski’s screenplay are based on a [click for more]

The Ubiquitous Paul Newman

October 11, 2008 Michael McGonigle

Many, many people have paid tribute to Paul Newman on this sad occasion of his death. I know he was 83 and had lived a long, fruitful life full of great achievements and impressive honors, [click for more]