Like Myrna Loy and her antlered companion here, something about this time of year brings out the spirit of friendship and togetherness. The staff at MovieFanFare would like to thank all our loyal readers and offer you our warmest wishes…
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Well, it’s almost Christmas Day, and we at MovieFanFare got to thinking about our favorite Yuletide cinematic locales. From Santa’s workshop and quaint small towns to besieged L.A. skyscrapers and alien worlds, Hollywood has given audiences some fascinating places to…
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Over the last six decades or so, the post-Thanksgiving TV landscape has been inundated with animated Christmas specials on themes both sacred (A Charlie Brown Christmas) and secular (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). And during that time, it seems as though…
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Over the last two decades, the phrase “Hallmark Christmas Movie” has come to represent a unique subgenre of holiday entertainment. To many non-fans, the term refers–disparagingly–to a Yuletide-set romcom where an attractive young woman (age 21-35 and involved with a…
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Now that Kraven the Hunter has followed his fellow Spider-Man characters Venom, Morbius, and Madame Web to the local multiplex, MovieFanFare wants to know which of the wall-crawler’s other bad guys (or gals) you think is most deserving of their…
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Earlier this week actor Michael Cole, best known for playing rich kid-turned-undercover cop Pete Cochran on The Mod Squad, passed away at the age of 84. Since the 2021 death of co-star Clarence Williams III, Cole had been the last…
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“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” These are the opening lines to Charles Dickens’ timeless holiday tale “A Christmas Carol.” And while quintessential pinchpenny Ebenezer Scrooge is indeed the main character of the…
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Few things symbolize winter–at least, above and below certain lines of latitude–better than a snowman. And when one of these childhood favorites comes to life in films or on TV, the results can be delightful (2013’s Frozen), emotional (1998’s Jack…
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As a longtime film fan who is entering “the September of my years,” I’ve come to realize there are some movie-related moments which I’ll never get to experience. Odds are I’ll never watch the lost Lon Chaney silent shocker London…
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Well, it looks as though we avoided the “Y2K” shutdown fears that swept the globe in 1999 (we must have, or else you wouldn’t be reading this now). Yes, the world a quarter-century ago was a simple, more innocent…
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