It’s a little early for Christmas movies, but how could we not celebrate the 50th anniversary of the debut of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? Santa’s brought a bag filled with other memorable Hollywood dates for your enjoyment.
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In the City of Angels, crime often pays big dividends when it comes to the movies. With the new thriller Nightcrawler offering a seamy look at L.A. crime photographers, we shine a light on some of the darkest dramas set in Southern California.
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MovieFanFare presents a special centennial salute to stage and film actor Norman Lloyd, co-star of Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur, Dead Poets Society, and the TV drama St. Elsewhere, who is still going strong on the eve of his 100th birthday.
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Some critics are hailing Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” as “the next 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Will any movie ever deserve that comparison? Is Stanley Kubrick’s film untouchable as the greatest of the Classic Space Movies? Here are my five personal favorites.
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Clash by Night with Marilyn Monroe and Barbara Stanwyck, Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell, and King’s Row with Ronald Reagan are three new titles now out from the Warner Archive series. We’ve got details on these films and more inside.
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Keanu Reeves plays an ex-paid assassin in the new film John Wick. This week’s poll wants your pick for top post-1970 movie hit man (or woman). From Charles Bronson and Jean Reno to Uma Thurman and Javier Bardem, it’s a list to die for.
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“Garbo Laughs!,” as the Swedish beauty made her comedic debut 75 years ago this week, co-starring with Melvyn Douglas in Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka. We have more key moments from Hollywood history for your enjoyment, comrades.
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Originally made in 3-D but released “flat,” the 1954 Korean War drama Dragonfly Squadron has been restored and is now out in a 3-D Blu-ray Guest writer Aurora looks at the restoration process and reviews the high-flying action tale starring John Hodiak.
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With such films as Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal Pictures set the tone for 1930s horror cinema, but other studios sometimes matched–or beat–them in scares. Read about Island of Lost Souls, Mad Love and eight more shock classics.
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Against All Flags with Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper in The General Died at Dawn, and Tony Curtis as The Great Impostor head up a roster of classic films now on DVD. Read about these and more films in the latest Universal vault releases.
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