It can be a challenge to review a classic like Billy Wilder‘s Some Like It Hot, because so much has been written about it. So, instead of a traditional review, I want to focus on Wilder’s theme of deception and…
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For this week’s Flashback Friday, guest blogger Rick 29 writes about one of the 1970s most interesting films: The popularity of Blaxploitation films had already begun to wane by 1974, just three brief years after Shaft made a box office splash….
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Universal Monsters Week races towards its conclusion tomorrow with this examination of one of the finest sequels ever made… The general consensus among film critics and classic movie fans is that Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is the high point of…
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Universal Monsters Week here at MovieFanFare continues with a look at the funniest cinematic team-up ever. Ask a classic movie fan to name their favorite comedians and I suspect only a few would list Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. More…
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There are better time travel romances, such as Somewhere in Time, Time After Time, and I’ll Never Forget You. And yet, I know a surprising number of people who view The Philadelphia Experiment with affection. That’s all the more amazing…
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1. Billy Wilder only directed 26 feature-length films and three of those were released in 1957 (The Spirit of St. Louis, Love in the Afternoon, and Witness for the Prosecution0. In contrast, Alfred Hitchcock directed over 50 movies. 2. He…
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Today’s guest post focuses on an underrated film from the 1980s, one that helped usher in the age of CGI with its ground-breaking special effects. Holmes purists may quibble that Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) is an insult to the classic…
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Jack Nicholson played a less-than-successful 1870s outlaw who escapes the hangman’s noose by marrying spinster Mary Steenburgen in 1978’s Goin’ South. Rick 29 looks at the production of the frontier comedy/romance, which Nicholson also directed.
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Hal Holbrook earned an Emmy portraying idealistic U.S. senator Hays Stowe in The Bold Ones: The Senator. Guest blogger Rick29 reviews the short-lived 1970-71 NBC drama and casts his vote firmly in favor of your checking it out.
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A Valentine to Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, The Last of Sheila may be best remembered for its off-screen stories. First, though, let’s start with the product on the screen: an all-star whodunit set aboard a yacht cruising the Mediterranean. The…
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