If you grew up in the 1980s, no actor was more iconic to you than Harrison Ford. From his roles in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones films to work in other beloved movies of the era such as…
Read more →Happy 75th Birthday To Harrison Ford!
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What’s Your Favorite Summer Blockbuster?
The 4th of July is just around the corner, and with it we find our thoughts turning to what movies we’ve enjoyed in the summers past. Ever since Jaws ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster in 1975 —…
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite Ewan McGregor Performance?
Ewan McGregor is having a great 2017. The Scottish actor’s performance as twin brothers in the just-completed third season of the Fargo won him universal praise, and his return to his breakthrough role of heroin addict Mark Renton in T2:…
Read more →Presenting the Greatest Father’s Day Film Clip of All Time
As we celebrate Father’s Day today, we cannot think of a more appropriate movie scene that explores the often complicated dynamic between fathers and sons than the above sequence from The Empire Strikes Back. Hopefully your father wasn’t an intergalactic…
Read more →Star Wars at 40: Exploring the MovieFanFare Archives
As you’ve probably noticed by today’s posts so far, we’re pretty into this whole 40th anniversary of Star Wars thing. So we wanted to take a moment and provide you some links to the greatest posts from a galaxy very,…
Read more →Tell Us About the First Time You Saw Star Wars!
I don’t remember the first time I saw Star Wars. But it is something that I feel has always been with me. You see, I was two when the movie first hit theaters 40 years ago today, but my parents…
Read more →Happy 40th Birthday to Star Wars!
And many more. #StarWars40th pic.twitter.com/H5GKgwIpOB — Star Wars (@starwars) May 25, 2017 40 years ago today, Star Wars was released…and movies were changed forever. George Lucas created a galaxy far, far away unlike anything that had ever been seen before….
Read more →What Went Wrong: Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Editor’s note: The following article appeared on MovieFanFare back in July of 2009. It is being re-run today as part of our May the Fourth Be With You celebrations. In the summer of 1999, Star Wars geeks (myself included) and…
Read more →To Me, She’s Royalty: My Favorite Carrie Fisher Interview
I’ve written before about how amazing of a talent that Carrie Fisher was, so given how today is the first May the Fourth Be With You celebration in which she is no longer with us I wanted to share the…
Read more →Alec Guinness: Britain’s Man of a Thousand Faces
Beloved British actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose films ranged from The Bridge on the River Kwai to Star Wars and more, died 25 years ago this week. MovieFanFare remembers the Oscar-winning performer with this classic look back at his brilliant career.
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