Ah, 1974. Remember back a half-century ago? President Richard M. Nixon abruptly resigned in the wake of Watergate; Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented his eponymous cube; and the IMAX movie format made its debut at Expo ’74 in Spokane, the…
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Rock Hudson Gets Caught in an “Avalanche”
A 3.7 rating (out of 10) on the IMDb and a 7% (out of 100%) audience score on Rotten Tomatoes might lead one to believe that a movie may be a turkey. Yet, there’s always that “may” and, besides, I’m a…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Poseidon Adventure
As any regular MovieFanFare reader can tell you, we are more than a bit obsessed with 1970s disaster films around these parts. A personal favorite is 1972’s epic The Poseidon Adventure, a film that truly has it all. So much…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Towering Inferno
With parts of the country experiencing unseasonably warm weather this weekend, we couldn’t think of a more fitting Create-A-Caption than a scene from the 1974 disaster movie classic The Towering Inferno. Below you will see an iconic moment from the…
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