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A plain young woman and a scarred war veteran find love and beauty with each other inside The Enchanted Cottage. Guest writer Constance Metzinger opens the door to the 1945 RKO fantasy/romance starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young.
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It’s Agatha Christie times two as guest writer Rick29 investigates the 1974 film version of Murder on the Orient Express, starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, as well as the 2010 British TV adaptation, with David Suchet as the Belgian sleuth.
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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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For this week’s Throwback Thursday offering we present this guest post from Rick29 that remembers the scary and sensational feature House of Dark Shadows. The intended audience for MGM’s House of Dark Shadows (1970) was undoubtedly fans of the popular 1966-71…
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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…
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Jack Nicholson played a less-than-successful 1870s outlaw who escapes the hangman’s noose by marrying spinster Mary Steenburgen in 1978’s Goin’ South. Rick 29 looks at the production of the frontier comedy/romance, which Nicholson also directed.
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Impossibly rich and lovingly sheltered, Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) devotes her fortune and doting attentions on the arts. A quiet and driving force behind financing operas, symphonies, and classical theater, the only thing Florence wants for herself is a…
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Yes, the movie’s in color, but we thought this photo was too adorable to resist. Guest writer Jessica Pickens reviews the 1953 MGM musical Small Town Girl, starring Jane Powell, Farley Granger and Bobby Van.
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Five years after Bela Lugosi’s bloodsucking count got staked, Universal brought in Gloria Holden as his undead offspring. Guest writer Rick29 offers a look at the rarely-seen 1936 chiller Dracula’s Daughter, co-starring Edward Van Sloan and Otto Kruger.
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After 53 years and 24 films, is the James Bond franchise showing its age? We take an in-depth ook at 2015’s Spectre and star Daniel Craig and ask where the cinematic superspy series goes from here.
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