Today’s guest post by MovieFanFare reader Dan Slaten originally ran in 2012, we are reprinting it as part of our Planet of the Apes Week celebrations: Science fiction movies don’t have to be mindless, effects-laden spectaculars with little substance to…
Read more →Charlton Heston
Welcome to Planet of the Apes Week on MovieFanfare!
They finally did it…devoted an entire week to one of sci-fi’s most enduring franchises. Yes friends, since there is a new Planet of the Apes film coming out this week, your pals at MovieFanFare are going to be celebrating with…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Charlton Heston Film Performance?
Charlton Heston: We would like to know what your favorite Charlton Heston Film Performance? Is it El Cid (El Cid), Moses from The Ten Commandments, or maybe George Taylor from Planet of the Apes?
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Ten Commandments
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! Moses didn’t usually take curtain calls but the crowd was going crazy!
Read more →The Big Country: For People Who Don’t Like Cowboy Movies
Guest blogger Victoria Balloon writes: Some people refuse to watch Westerns on the grounds that the predictable parade of horses, gunfights and tumbleweeds makes them ultimately shallow and boring. They are missing out; there were Westerns made in the 1950s that…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 10.02.11
October 5, 1956: Charlton Heston, as Moses, parts the Red Sea in Cecil B. DeMille‘s gargantuan remake of The Ten Commandments. October 6, 1927: The curtain opens on the “talkies” with Warner Bros.’ The Jazz Singer. Star Al Jolson says, “You ain’t heard…
Read more →The Naked Jungle: Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston Find Love – and a Lot of Ants
Guest blogger Rick 29 writes: The producing-directing team of George Pal and Byron Haskin followed up their classic War of the Worlds with The Naked Jungle (1954), a well-written character study which builds to a lively climax involving billions of soldier…
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