To mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we’ve invited guest blogger The War Movie Buff to offer his take on 1962’s all-star WWII drama The Longest Day, an epic depiction of the Allied assault on occupied Europe
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Caped crimefighters, animated mermaids, and ghostly baseball players delighted moviegoers 25 years ago. This week’s poll wants to know your choice for the top film of 1989.
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It was 71 years ago this week that the airliner boarded by British screen stalwart Leslie Howard was tragically shot down over the Bay of Biscay. We’ve got more movie milestones to share.
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A young woman starts to suspect that the visiting uncle she adores may be a wanted murderer. Guest blogger Stephen Fitzgerald salutes one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most iconic screen villains, Joseph Cotten’s Uncle Charlie in the 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt.
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Is it possible…at all…to arrive at a list of “fundamental” films to view? Movie Irv takes a stab at beginning to assemble such a cinematic catalog, starting with his five essential picks from the sensational 1970s.
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Over the years movie buffs have been inundated with “Greatest Films of All Time” lists, but one of the oldest and most respected comes from Sight & Sound magazine. Guest writer Rick29 examines the British publication’s poll results since the first in 1952..
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Gene Autry and Roy Rogers may have been the best-known B-movie cowboys, but Herb Jeffries gave African-American audiences their own frontier hero to root for in the late ’30s. MovieFanFare remembers the pioneering singer/actor, who died last week at age 100.
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With the chatter over Jodorowsky’s Dune, which chronicles the avant-garde director’s quixotic mid-’70s bid to lens the Frank Herbert sci-fi opus, we’re offering a dozen favorite films about filmmaking.
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Doppelgangers has turned 13. Can’t say we’ve really matured though! We’re still poking fun at film posters that appear to have cloned other one-sheets. Either that or they’re just all instances of blameless coincidence. You be the judge. Lookout! ….
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This week marks the unofficial start of summer, and there are some hot titles coming out on DVD and Blu-ray. Remakes of Endless Love and Gambit, a look at the creation of “Doctor Who,” and more are on tap.
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