Month: July 2005 | FilmBuffOnline

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]