Rumble…rumble. That’s the sound of Earthquake (1974), one of several big budget, all-star disaster movies made in the 1970s. Airport (1970) perfected the formula, but it was The Poseidon Adventure (1972) that inspired a dozen or so imitations (not counting the spoofs…
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Hopping Hilarity With Jimmy Stewart and “Harvey”
With Easter upon us, one rabbit-centric film to watch today hopped out at us.. We are of course talking about the 1950 comedy Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart in a side-splitting performance that has become a true comedy classic. Based on…
Read more →Movie Trailer of the Day: The Ten Commandments
Cecil B. DeMille‘s final film was The Ten Commandments, a grand-scale religious epic starring Charlton Heston as Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince chosen by God to abandon a life of luxury and lead his fellow Israelites out of slavery. The…
Read more →Join Us This Friday for the Return of Alien Day!
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott‘s sci-fi/horror masterpiece Alien. Beginning Friday and leading up to the actual anniversary date on May 25th, we’ll be featuring a variety of new articles and posts from our archives celebrating the…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Thin Man
Okay friends, it’s time for another Create-A-Caption! This week, we wanted to have some fun with a bona fide classic, 1934’s William Powell/Myrna Loy screwball comedy/murder mystery The Thin Man. We’ve taken an image from Nick and Nora’s feature debut…
Read more →James Stewart’s “Bend of the River” Remains the Definitive Western
Now available on Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics, the 1952 Western Bend of the River stars James Stewart as Glyn McLyntock — a former outlaw who is now working clean as a wagon scout on a perilious mission to assist…
Read more →If Only One of These Marvel Cinematic Universe Characters Is Resurrected in “Avengers: Endgame,” Who Do You Want it to Be?
The summer movie season officially gets underway (yes, we know it’s still Spring) when Avengers: Endgame hits theaters this Thursday. A sequel to last year’s Avengers: Infinity War, the film — spoiler alert — finds our heroes picking up the…
Read more →Remembering Vic Morrow in “1990: The Bronx Warriors”
From The Cinematic Bartender by Winthrop J Quiggy: Bronx Warrior (aka “Italian Rip-off”) Take one jigger of Escape from New York. Add two shots of The Warriors. Sprinkle with a liberal dose of Mad Max. Shake vigorously. Serve over ice…
Read more →Happy Easter from MovieFanFare!
On this Easter Sunday we just wanted to take a minute and wish you and your family the happiest of holidays! And if you have any special viewing traditions on this day (The Judy Garland/Fred Astaire classic Easter Parade seems…
Read more →Guest Review: The Gnome-Mobile
“Hunting for gnomes in the Gnome-Mobile….” Jaspar (Tom Lowell) and his grandfather Knobby (Walter Brennan) fear that they may be the last of the gnomes residing in the giant redwoods of California. As many of us know, gnomes live forever,…
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