Okay, here’s the drill. At this “most wonderful time of the year,” we at MovieFanFare like to get under a warm blanket and enjoy a cup of hot cocoa and a good Christmas flick. This time we’ll have to settle…
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Cult Films
Overlooked and Underrated: Five Films Worth Your Time
There are always some movies that fly under the radar of the general public, despite getting major buzz at the independent film festivals. Lost little gems. Some eventually receive their flowers and are discovered years later. Today we are…
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Character from The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
To conclude MovieFanFare’s Golden Anniversary salute to the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this week’s poll offers you a chance to vote for which RHPS character is your favorite. Are you a devotee of “absolute pleasure” and…
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Pee-wee’s Big Adventure Supporting Character?
The greatest bicycle movie this side of Vittorio De Sica Bicycle Thieves marked a milestone this past weekend. Saturday was the 40th anniversary of the opening of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Director Tim Burton’s debut feature followed Paul Reubens as Pee-wee…
Read more →The Phynx: A Cameo-Philled Spy Satire Phlop
Last week’s $64 million opening weekend for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning showed that audiences will still turn out for spy movies. The genre probably hit its zenith back in the late 1960s and early ’70s. James Bond,…
Read more →Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 50: Where’s My Free Coconut?
“No, on second thought let’s not salute Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It is a silly film.” Are you a Baby Boomer male who came of age in the late ’70s? If so, you’ll recall how your place on…
Read more →The Quietly Unsettling Normalcy of David Lynch
Few filmmakers are influential enough that their very names become synonymous with the cinematic style their bodies of work present. To this day “Hitchcockian” means flights of movie mystery and nerve-tingling suspense. Sentimental melodramas of basic American values are dubbed…
Read more →The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Turns 40? “So What? Big Deal.”
As a longtime film fan who is entering “the September of my years,” I’ve come to realize there are some movie-related moments which I’ll never get to experience. Odds are I’ll never watch the lost Lon Chaney silent shocker London…
Read more →Scared Silly Part 2: More of Moviedom’s Goofiest Monsters
Many, many moons ago (October of 2012, to be precise), I wrote an article for this very site listing 12 of the oddest, shoddiest, and least frightening menaces to ever grace the silver screen. From disembodied heads in lab pans…
Read more →Flashback Friday: The Timeless Fun Of Heavy Metal
Arguably the most beloved animated cult film ever made, Heavy Metal is a cutting-edge anthology inspired by the popular fantasy magazine. The fantastic stories, which revolve around the powers of a mysterious jewel called the Loc-Nar, include a futuristic cab…
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