Double Dose Of Doug: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. tackles two roles in the 1941’s The Corsican Brothers, the Edward Small (The Man in the Iron Mask) production based on the Alexander Dumas novel. He plays the siblings who are separated and…
Read more →Movie fans around the world have something to thank the French for (besides the movie Betty Blue): Ever since the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma promoted the idea that film directors such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, due to the very…
Read more →Taking offense; an unexpected emergency; sheer boredom…all reasons someone might give for walking out on a movie. It’s safe to say we’ve probably all done it at one time or another. When the exodus is not forced upon you—that is…
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“Speech is silver; silence is golden.” –Ancient Egyptian proverb. Who would have thunk it? Two films about the world of silent movies, showing in theaters at the same time. We have Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s mesmerizing 3-D adaptation of The Invention of…
Read more →Last year, I received The Invention of Hugo Cabret as a Christmas gift. This year, Martin Scorsese‘s film of it, Hugo (Gee, was the original title too “intellectual”?), is getting tons of high praise. I didn’t get around to reading…
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Smooth-talking and amiable as they come, you’d think James Garner pretty much made his living playing himself on the big and small screen. But one of the revelations of The Garner Files, the new autobiography written by the actor with…
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Strange things can happen anywhere, but things that occur in movie theaters tend to be REALLY strange. Case in point: Years ago, I was a regular guest on a popular morning radio show. We would take calls each week, allowing…
Read more →Got a question to Ask Movie Irv? Not of the “When is (title X) coming out on DVD/Blu-ray?” variety—he gets plenty of those queries via the Ask MovieFanFare, DVD Beat and TV Tip Sheet threads—and not of the “trivia quiz”…
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Out of the cycle of 1970s buddy cop action comedies like The Super Cops, Cops and Robbers and Freebie and the Bean comes Busting, a 1974 effort soon releasing on DVD. Elliott Gould and Robert Blake play the Los Angeles…
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Q: Hi, I would like to know if you would be able to find out if the title Fast Charlie, the Moonbeam Rider with David Carradine and Brenda Vaccaro will be released soon on DVD or Blu-Ray. As a motorcycle…
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