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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]

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]

Movie Ratings System Turn 40, Still Sucks

November 4, 2008 Rich Drees

The movie ratings system turned 40 this past weekend and to commemorate the event, Time magazine spoke with Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Joan Graves, Chairman of [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]

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]

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]

History Channel Unmasks Batman Tonight

July 21, 2008 Rich Drees

If you haven’t gotten enough Batman yet this past weekend, and with The Dark Knight racking up over $155 million at the box office, there was certainly a lot of batman being had, you might [click for more]