Flash! Ahh! Originally released in 1980, Flash Gordon is an enduring cult favorite. The film follows Flash (Sam J. Jones), quarterback for the New York Jets, and travel agent Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) are hijacked into a desperate space mission…
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The past meets the future in this latest group of new Blu-rays and DVDs. This week is a decade-spanning assortment of vintage favorites and cult hits, including several Warner Archive and Criterion Collection titles, all of which will soon take…
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There’s no finer mess than when Laurel and Hardy get together! The classic comedies featuring the pair have been restored, and lead off this week’s new releases. There’s also cult horror films, several Vanessa Redgrave movies, dramas, laugh-packed favorites, and…
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A Star is Born is one of 2018’s most-loved and successful pictures…not to mention a favorite to win big at this year’s Academy Awards. That, well, star-packed romantic drama is one of several great movies making their eagerly awaited debut…
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In The Lion in Winter, Katharine Hepburn shines as strong-willed Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, fighting a battle of wills for England’s future against King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) in this classic historical opus. The aging king gathers his family on…
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With the latest James Bond film, Spectre, now in theaters, MovieFanFare continues its retrospective of past 007s with writer George Allen’s classic salute to the ever-debonair Roger Moore, who played the superspy seven times from 1973 to 1985.
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With this week marking 53 years since the U.S. debut of Dr. No and the latest James Bond film, Spectre, set to open next month, we offer this classic critique by writer George Allen of the first man to play 007 on the big screen, Sean Connery.
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Guest blogger Blair Kramer writes: “Unfortunately you are just a stupid policeman…whose luck has run out!” “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” “Yes, give him his cigarettes! It won’t be the nicotine that kills you Mr. Bond!” “Search him from…
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For a moment Bond looked up into two glittering eyes behind a narrow black mask. There was the impression of a crag-like face under a hat-brim, the collar of a fawn mackintosh. He could take in nothing more before his…
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After numerous false starts and (failed) attempts to maintain the hoity-toity façade of arguing “nobody does Bond better” for this current entry, I have decided to take a somewhat different approach this time out. Many readers announcing themselves as genuine…
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