MovieFanFare 6/18/2009 – 5/31/2026 As Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx) sang in Animal Crackers, “Hello, I must be going!” But don’t worry — we’re simply heading to a new home. After nearly 17 years, we’re shutting off the camera…
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Climbing Mount Everest from the inside. Tracking down the Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton. Stealing the piano Napoleon played at Waterloo from the Louvre. From 1951 to 1960 British audiences heard stories like these every week on their radios. The…
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Today is the last Monday in May, which means it’s also Memorial Day. First observed in 1868, shortly after the Civil War, this nationwide annual event honors members of the U.S. military who fought, and sometimes died, defending America and…
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We’re a good four months away from Talk Like a Pirate Day, which comes on September 19th. Today, though, let’s jump the gun with a look at a buccaneer film which premiered 50 years ago and is being released…
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In the first few decades of filmmaking, the “monster movie” scene was dominated by classic supernatural creatures. Vampires (Nosferatu, Dracula), reanimated dead men (Frankenstein, The Mummy), werewolves (The Wolf Man), and other fiends culled from legend and Gothic literature were…
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In the Golden Age of Hollywood no leading lady could hope for a better on-screen “wingwoman” than Eve Arden. A cucumber-cool blonde whose sharp tongue dispensed caustic quips at a Gatling gun pace, Arden was a supporting player mainstay in…
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As Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about 750 years ago, all good things must come to an end. Here at MovieFanFare, the saying means that–for the immediate future–we’re saying “goodbye” to our Monday movie polls as we prepare for the next…
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A criminal quintet pulling a train heist; a shape-shifting magician who entrances a frontier town; the hunt for a demented killer; a light-hearted contemporary noir whodunit; and a hard-ridin’ twinbill with college football star-turned-screen cowpoke Johnny Mack Brown. These…
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Okay, here’s the drill. Today is May the 4th, better known to sci-fi film fans as Star Wars Day. This is a time to celebrate and look back on the wondrous cinematic universe first brought to life by George Lucas…
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Whether it’s referred to as “Episode V” or “the second Star Wars film,” 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back is considered to many fans to be the best film in the history of the series. Along with introducing such familiar faces…
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