Creator/stars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda set out in search of America and opened Hollywood’s eyes to the rising youth culture with their indie drama Easy Rider, which opened 46 years ago this week. You’ll find more far-out film facts inside.
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Poll: What’s Your Favorite Ronald Reagan Film Role?
Before he turned his attention to politics, Ronald Reagan had a successful 25-year Hollywood career. This week MovieFanFare salutes the 40th U.S. president and asks for your vote for “The Gipper’s” top big-screen turn.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 7/5/15
After years of playing heroes and lawmen, Ronald Reagan made his final screen appearance as a hard-hearted crime boss in Don Siegel’s The Killers, which opened 51 years ago this week. Here we go again with more fascinating film facts inside.
Read more →Ask MovieFanFare: Or, Do You Have That One With That Guy Who Was in That Movie That…?
Can’t remember the name of a movie you liked? Know the movie, but not the stars? Looking to see if a film is out on home video? Here’s your chance to “Ask MovieFanFare” and see if our crack staff of film experts can help you fulfill your cinematic quest.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Pixar Animated Feature Film?
With Inside Out, Pixar’s 15th feature in 20 years, now playing in theaters, this week’s poll asks which of the animation studio’s films is your favorite. Choices include the Toy Story films, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Up, Brave and more.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 6/28/15
Surely it wasn’t 35 years ago this week that the “disaster film” spoof Airplane!, with Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays, opened? It looks like you picked the wrong week to stop reading movie trivia, because we’ve got more inside.
Read more →So, What Were the WORST Movies of 1939?
Humphrey Bogart as a vampire? Ronald Reagan and the Dead End Kids? For the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon, we present this classic look at 10 less-than-classic movies released the same year as Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
Read more →“Maha?” “Aha!”: The Three Stooges in Three Little Pirates (1946)
A classic Three Stooges routine, the “Maha” sketch, was featured in their 1946 short Three Little Pirates. For the “…And Scene!” Blogathon, we salute what turned out be one of Curly’s funniest–and final–moments with the slapstick trio.
Read more →Who’s Your Favorite Father/Son Acting Dynasty?
Father’s Day was yesterday, so our belated salute asks for your favorite father/son acting pair (or more). Kirk and Michael Douglas, Jerry and Ben Stiller, plus the assorted Bridges, Carradines and Estevez/Sheens: which clan takes the top spot?
Read more →This Week in Film History: 6/21/15
It was 54 years ago this week that Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn and company set out to destroy an impregnable German fortress in the WWII action classic The Guns of Navarone. More high-caliber Hollywood history awaits inside.
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