Last Friday on this blog I presented an article saluting some of the most iconic horror movie masks. My first pick chronologically was the “Red Death” costume Lon Chaney’s Erik dons in 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera. As chilling…
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In Universal’s latest entry in the Jurassic Park film franchise, Jurassic World: Rebirth, it’s suggested that people became bored with the notion of looking at dinosaurs. When it comes to the world of motion pictures, that clearly is not the…
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You can’t keep a good vampire down…at least not at the box office, as writer/director Robert Eggers’ sanguinary shocker Nosferatu finished its Christmas week debut with a solid $40 million-plus performance, good for third place overall. That’s not too shabby…
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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…
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George Clooney plays a ’50s film star who’s kidnapped in the new movie Hail, Caesar!, but in 1925 crooks plotted to abduct silent screen heroine Mary Pickford and hold her for ransom. Guest writer Patrick Downey shares the remarkable true-crime story.
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The quest for love in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome and modern times was the theme of Buster Keaton’s comedy Three Ages. For the Second Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, we travel back to 1923 and review Buster’s first feature as director/star.
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The legendary lord of the jungle first swung onto movie screens 97 years ago in Tarzan of the Apes, with Elmo Lincoln in the title role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer goes out on a limb–er, vine–to review the 1918 silent adventure saga.
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An adventure-seeking schoolgirl gets more than she bargained for when she becomes involved with an older man and some jewel thieves in The Flapper. For the Anti-Damsel Blogathon, we review this 1920 comedy starring silent film beauty Olive Thomas.
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Her beauty and on-screen innocence earned silent film actress Olive Borden the nickname “The Joy Girl,” but her private life was anything but a happy experience. Guest writer Marsha Collock looks back at Borden’s all-too-brief career.
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One of silent cinema’s greatest–and strangest–love stories was Universal’s The Phantom of the Opera, with Lon Chaney in perhaps his most famous role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer rips the mask off the 1925 thriller’s behind-the-scenes secrets and travails.
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