Author’s Note: This is an updating of an article which originally ran on MovieFanFare in September of 2009. In last week’s first half of this two-part retrospective, I told you about the various silent and early animated film versions of…
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Thanksgiving Greetings from MovieFanFare
Whether you’re traveling by plane, train, automobile, or on foot (like Steve Martin and John Candy)… about to carve the turkey (like Jane Russell)… …or getting in touch with your inner Pilgrim (like Laurel and Hardy), we at MovieFanFare would…
Read more →The Top 10 Films of 1974: Fire, Earthquakes, Mid-Air Collisions, and Mel Brooks
Ah, 1974. Remember back a half-century ago? President Richard M. Nixon abruptly resigned in the wake of Watergate; Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented his eponymous cube; and the IMAX movie format made its debut at Expo ’74 in Spokane, the…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Movie Set in Ancient Rome?
With last weekend’s release of Gladiator II, we thought we’d look back at the many feature films set in the days of Hannibal, the Caesars, Caligula, and Nero. From historical epics to swordplay sagas to musical comedies, lend us your…
Read more →Before the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz in Film Before 1939
Author’s Note: This is an updating of an article which originally ran on MovieFanFare in September of 2009. They were the most popular children’s books around, with kids eagerly awaiting the release of each new title in the series. Dismissed…
Read more →A Mole to Be Looked At: Revisiting The Mole Agent
There’s much anticipation, understandably so, for the forthcoming streaming sitcom A Man on the Inside, which will reunite star Ted Danson with The Good Place’s creator/showrunner Michael Schur. The San Francisco-set series features Danson as former engineering professor Charles Nieuwendyk—retired,…
Read more →The Top 10 Films of 1949: Jolson Is King…Well, His Voice, Anyway
Last week we took a quick trip in the Wayback Machine to the year 1924 for a peek at what the top 10 films were a century ago, when America was learning to Keep Cool with Coolidge and the cinema…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Teri Garr Film/TV Performance?
Few actresses could blend flighty and wise, ditzy and vulnerable better than delightful Academy Award nominee Teri Garr, who passed away last month at the age of 79. A Los Angeles native, Garr began her big-screen career as an uncredited…
Read more →Which Movie Santa Would You Least Want to Mess With?
Lifted from a planned streaming release into theaters, the appreciative audience response has already proven strong for the high-concept Christmas action-comedy Red One. The scenario finds that Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) maintains a very high-end operation at the North Pole,…
Read more →The Top 10 Films of 1924: Milton Sills Rules the Box Office!
Well, there’s roughly seven weeks to go on the calendar, and it looks as though Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Despicable Me 4 will take home top honors in the 2024 box office race, proving yet again that…
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