As we close the book on 2024, MovieFanFare is looking back on the year in cinema. Along with some popular animated sequels and superhero fare, there were also plenty of original and challenging titles in theaters and on streaming platforms….
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Santa’s not the only one compiling a “Nice” list in December. Each year since 1989, the Library of Congress’s National Film Preservation Board has curated a list of up to 25 motion pictures deemed to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically…
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Like Myrna Loy and her antlered companion here, something about this time of year brings out the spirit of friendship and togetherness. The staff at MovieFanFare would like to thank all our loyal readers and offer you our warmest wishes…
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Well, it’s almost Christmas Day, and we at MovieFanFare got to thinking about our favorite Yuletide cinematic locales. From Santa’s workshop and quaint small towns to besieged L.A. skyscrapers and alien worlds, Hollywood has given audiences some fascinating places to…
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Over the last six decades or so, the post-Thanksgiving TV landscape has been inundated with animated Christmas specials on themes both sacred (A Charlie Brown Christmas) and secular (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). And during that time, it seems as though…
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Let’s start out with the obligatory spoiler warning, as there are going be a lot of plot reveals here for those who aren’t familiar with some of the various series mentioned. We get that the availability of DVD and Blu-ray…
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Over the last two decades, the phrase “Hallmark Christmas Movie” has come to represent a unique subgenre of holiday entertainment. To many non-fans, the term refers–disparagingly–to a Yuletide-set romcom where an attractive young woman (age 21-35 and involved with a…
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Now that Kraven the Hunter has followed his fellow Spider-Man characters Venom, Morbius, and Madame Web to the local multiplex, MovieFanFare wants to know which of the wall-crawler’s other bad guys (or gals) you think is most deserving of their…
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Earlier this week actor Michael Cole, best known for playing rich kid-turned-undercover cop Pete Cochran on The Mod Squad, passed away at the age of 84. Since the 2021 death of co-star Clarence Williams III, Cole had been the last…
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“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” These are the opening lines to Charles Dickens’ timeless holiday tale “A Christmas Carol.” And while quintessential pinchpenny Ebenezer Scrooge is indeed the main character of the…
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