Guest blogger Katie Scarlett writes: Sky-diving, bungee-cord jumping, watching a classic musical in a theatre; these are all things that make life a thrilling experience. Everyone should have the experience to watch a vintage film on a big screen with…
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It’s Not a Threat, It’s a Promise: Film Noir Quotes Part II
Previously on MovieFanFare guest blogger Karen Burroughs Hannsberry presented an assortment of her favorite film noir quotes. Today she’s back with more of her favorite selections of hard-boiled dialogue: You gotta love the language of film noir. Hard-boiled, cynical, straight…
Read more →Second-Tier and Loving It: Hidden Films of Great Directors
Guest blogger Julie Sesnovich writes: They can’t all be winners. Even the strongest, smartest, most talented directors will misfire occasionally. It happens, and it’s forgivable. But what about the works that lie between masterpiece and failure? The films that, far…
Read more →My Five Favorite Cary Grant Films
Guest blogger David Lobosco writes: Cary Grant (1904-1986), in my humble opinion, is the patron saint of all leading man. Sure, there were actors out there that might have had more of an acting range, but Cary could make any…
Read more →Some Like It Hot (1959): A Classic Movie Review
Guest blogger David Lobosco writes: The movie Some Like It Hot (1959) is one of the great classic comedies of all time, so it’s almost pointless to write a review of the film. However, I recently watched it on TV…
Read more →Family Thanksgivings: Hannah and Her Sisters
Guest blogger The Lady Eve writes: I’m looking forward to spending some time with one of my favorite families over the coming Thanksgiving weekend, Hannah and Her Sisters (as well as her other relatives and friends). Hannah and Her Sisters,…
Read more →Guest Review: RoboCop
Guest blogger Will Silver writes: From the moment in 1987 when I first heard the title RoboCop, I knew that I had to see this film. I never saw it in the theater, but I clearly remember renting it shortly…
Read more →Finally! Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection on DVD
MovieFanFare is thrilled to have Leonard Maltin returning for another guest post today: It’s a cultural crime that the greatest comedy team of all time has been so forsaken on DVD…until now. Therefore, I’m happy to report that Laurel &…
Read more →‘Quirky’ and Hollywood: Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson
Guest blogger Sophie Stephenson writes: In Sofia Coppola’s films The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, themes of troubled adolescence, nostalgia, romance and distanced family relations are present throughout them all. Other aspects which mark her out as…
Read more →True Heroes of Horror: Christopher Lee
Guest blogger The Mike writes: Who is Christopher Lee? Born on May 27, 1922, Christopher Lee has been acting ever since a young age when he played Rumpelstiltskin while attending school in Switzerland. The son of a soldier and a…
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