Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. Six Pix features “period” posters. Included are: D.O.A. (1950); MASH…
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What’s Your Favorite Peter O’Toole Film Performance?
This past weekend legendary Irish-born actor Peter O’Toole died at the age of 81. MovieFanFare remembers the eight-time Academy Award nominee in this week’s poll, and asks for you to vote for your top O’Toole film performance.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 12-15-13
It was exactly 90 years ago that Cecil B. DeMille treated audiences to the spectacle–for the first time, as it would turn out–of his vision of the Moses story with the release of The Ten Commandments. We’re handing down even more Tinseltown trivia for your consideration.
Read more →Christmas in Connecticut: Stanwyck as Domestic Goddess
One of the best-loved Yuletide-themed comedies, 1945’s Christmas in Connecticut–starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet–is the focus of Marsha Collock’s review.
Read more →Can We Still Talk About Great Movie Dialogue?
Is great movie talk a lost art of the movies? Hear Movie Irv dish on dialogue and then channel your own inner Chayefsky in the comments section…
Read more →Movie Poster Doppelgangers: Cheaper by the Dozen
Proving without a doubt that there’s dozens of poster lookalikes, we’ve arrived at the twelfth installment of the Doppelganger series. Since the holiday season is coming fast upon us let’s start off with something Christmas-themed—no re-gifting, please! Season of…
Read more →Eleanor Parker: The Very Thought of Her
Earlier this week Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker, whose film roles ranged from the prison drama Caged! to the beloved The Sound of Music, passed away at the age of 91. Jessica Pickens remembers the actress dubbed The Woman of a Thousand Faces.
Read more →The Boxing Cats: Why Movies Have a Purr-fectly Good Life Ahead of Them
If you think that mankind’s bizarre obsession with watching cat videos is a peculiar grotesquerie of our era…read on!
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Better Off Dead
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption.You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! The John Cusack Automatic Q-Tip Dispenser And Toothbrush Holder:A must-have in all college dorm rooms.
Read more →Cagney Turns Yellow (Journalist) as the Picture Snatcher
Along with his iconic gangster roles, James Cagney’s early ’30s Warner Bros. tenure included turns as a cabbie, a race car driver, and–as Marsha Collock discusses here–a tabloid newspaper photographer, in 1933’s Picture Snatcher.
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