It’s another movie that is usually considered one of the worst winners in the Best Picture Academy Awards category, but I have to admit that Around the World in 80 Days (1956) provides some terrific entertainment, even though it still has various flaws which…
Read more →May 15, 1900: The Lumiere brothers dazzle audiences at the Paris World’s Fair with films projected onto an enormous 82′ x 49′ wide screen. May 17, 1912: Carl Laemmle oversees the merger of a number of independent production companies to…
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At times his on-screen dancing seemed to enable him to defy gravity. MovieFanFare founder Jerry Frebowitz offers a special birthday salute to Fred Astaire, whose dapper presence set the tone for Hollywood musical from the 1930s to the ’60s.
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. In honor of Mother’s Day we’ve featured posters highlighting moms in…
Read more →Oh, how we hear it on this blog. How the movies today are awful. The violence. The sex. The language. The acting. The writing. The messages being shoved down our throats. If we were to ask the question, Do You…
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Guest blogger Allen Hefner presents this overview of the career of character actor great Neil Hamilton: I happened to be watching a 1932 Constance Bennett movie the other day. You remember her…Joan’s sister? The movie was called What Price Hollywood? and…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! Erik caught sight of his blind date—frankly, she was a little scary looking.
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Ahoy, mateys. What’s a summer without a pirate movie these days? Shiver me timbers, the scalawags in Hollywood have a new buccaneer bonanza coming our way! Plus, it doesn’t star Johnny Depp and cost $200 million to produce. It’s The…
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Q: Wondering why The Big Fix has never made it to DVD. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, this 1978 detective drama centered on a private investigator who’d come through the student movement of the ’60s and had become involved in a contemporary…
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