Well, it’s that time of year once more. Today is April 15th, aka Tax Day. There are quite a few films out there with a taxation theme, from The Adventures of Robin Hood to 1776 to Everything Everywhere All at…
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Ever feel as though Life has you stuck “behind the eight ball”? Well, 1940s moviegoers saw that happen on an amazingly frequent basis to a put-upon everyman named Joe McDoakes. Released by Warner Bros./Vitaphone from 1942-56, the genuinely amusing Joe…
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Well, it’s that time once again, as parents across America bid goodbye to their grown children–and, in many cases, their life savings–as they send their sons and daughters off to the higher levels of academia. In other words, it’s…
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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…
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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,…
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Would having a Best Comedy/Musical category enhance or dilute the Oscars? MovieFanFare looks at the idea of splitting the Best Picture Academy Award in two and offers an alternate history of which films would have won from 1928 to the present. .
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There would have been a certain bittersweet symmetry if actor Tony Roberts–who passed away last Friday at the age of 85–had won either of the two Antoinette Perry Award nominations he received back in 1968-69, just so the headlines could…
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The western Ohio town of Springfield has received a good deal of unwanted publicity over the past couple of months. Something a lot of folks are not aware of is that the city was the birthplace/hometown of two notable early…
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Funnyman Danny Kaye made his feature film debut as a hypochondriac who winds up a G.I. in Up in Arms. Guest writer Rick29 falls in for a closer look at the 1944 comedy/musical, which also stars Dinah Shore and Dana Andrews
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He may not have liked it, but W.C. Fields was born in suburban Philadelphia 136 years ago today. In this classic article, writer George Allen examines the curmudgeonly comic’s screen work to see if Fields’ brand of humor still works in the 21st century.
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