You can have your Douglas Fairbanks, your Alain Delon, and your George Hamilton, too. For my money, Zorro, the masked swashbuckler, will always be Guy Williams. That’s because he’s also the Zorro I grew up with. Yes, whenever TV showed…
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Oren Moverman & The Messenger
Hollywood is stuck between Iraq and a hard place. Even though three different big-name directors flirted with making The Messenger, a script authored by Oren Moverman and Alessandro Cammon, differences over the screenplay and scheduling pushed them away from the…
Read more →Movies Unlimited Movie Buzz Halloween Podcast III & IV: Dr. Strangefilm And The Scariest Movies Of All Time!
MovieFanFare’s mysterious columnist Dr. Strangefilm makes a spectral appearance in Ghouly Irv’s spooky domicile to discuss some oddly uncanny classics, and finally, Movie Irv welcomes a guest critic from the Movies Unlimited staff to compare notes on picks for the…
Read more →The Legacy Of Samuel Fuller
Quick, cinephiles: What do you think of when we say the name “Samuel Fuller”? Film noir? A forceful, primitive directing style? A big, smelly cigar? It certainly wouldn’t be sensitivity, feminism or ha-ha funny. But according to Christa Lang Fuller,…
Read more →Bruce McGill & Law Abiding Citizen
As a character actor, Bruce McGill never looks a gift horse in the mouth. So, when he was about to sign a contract to trade an acting gig for a free vacation, he was ready to sign on the dotted…
Read more →Michael Jai White & Black Dynamite
He’s tough, he’s sexy and he’s angry. Oh, yeah. He’s also black. He’s Black Dynamite, the jive-talking, feet-a-flying, Afro-wearing, no-nonsense hero who also happens to be a sex machine. Just like Shaft. John Shaft. After his bro’ is murdered, he…
Read more →A Serious Man (2009) Directed By Joel and Ethan Coen Movie Review
Their 2007 movie (No Country for Old Men) capped the Best Picture Oscar. Have the Coen Brothers struck gold again? Let’s check in with Movie Irv, who takes the measure of A Serious Man with this Raw Review: A Serious Man…
Read more →Lost ’60s And ’70s Flicks Found
Feelin’ Groovy: Going deep, deep, deep into their library to issue the next wave in their “Martini Movies” series, Sony has plucked some fascinating obscurities for public DVD screenings. They are from the 1960s and 1970s, which designates them as…
Read more →Bob Bowdon & The Cartel
Bob Bowdon, a veteran broadcaster, decided after doing several stories centering on the New Jersey Public Education system that enough was enough. Along with his experiences and those of a friend who changed jobs from journalist to school teacher, Bowdon…
Read more →Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein & No Impact Man
We have Fuel and Dirt and Earth Days and An Inconvenient Truth and The Cove and Food Inc., documentaries alerting us to the trouble we’ve gotten ourselves into fooling around with Mother Nature. And now there’s No Impact Man: The…
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