Gene Autry and Roy Rogers may have been the best-known B-movie cowboys, but Herb Jeffries gave African-American audiences their own frontier hero to root for in the late ’30s. MovieFanFare remembers the pioneering singer/actor, who died last week at age 100.
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With the chatter over Jodorowsky’s Dune, which chronicles the avant-garde director’s quixotic mid-’70s bid to lens the Frank Herbert sci-fi opus, we’re offering a dozen favorite films about filmmaking.
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Doppelgangers has turned 13. Can’t say we’ve really matured though! We’re still poking fun at film posters that appear to have cloned other one-sheets. Either that or they’re just all instances of blameless coincidence. You be the judge. Lookout! ….
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This week marks the unofficial start of summer, and there are some hot titles coming out on DVD and Blu-ray. Remakes of Endless Love and Gambit, a look at the creation of “Doctor Who,” and more are on tap.
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My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove: several memorable movies are turning 50 this year. MovieFanFare wants to know which film released in 1964 is your favorite.
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Ripley? Believe it or not, it’s been 25 years since jolted audiences were dropping their popcorn with the opening of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi shocker Alien. We’re just bursting with movie minutiae to share.
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Ann Blyth won critical praise for her portrayal of a troubled ’20s songstress and Broadway star. Guest writer Jessica Pickens reviews the song-filled 1957 biodrama The Helen Morgan Story.
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A quartet of ’30s movies starring Clark Gable, the Blu-ray debut of a timeless noir thriller by Orson Welles, and classic TV comedy with Abbott and Costello are among this week’s vintage new releases.
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Who should play Bette Davis in a big-screen biopic? Can anyone accurately portray the magnetism of Sean Connery? Who would dare play the Duke in a film about his life? Guest blogger Blair Kramer has a few suggestions!
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In 1937, 20th Century-Fox paired Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in a trio of popular, light-hearted romances. Guest writer The Lady Eve reviews Love Is News, Cafe Metropole and Second Honeymoon…and looks at the tales of the duo’s off-camera relationship.
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