Last year, I received The Invention of Hugo Cabret as a Christmas gift. This year, Martin Scorsese‘s film of it, Hugo (Gee, was the original title too “intellectual”?), is getting tons of high praise. I didn’t get around to reading…
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Mickey Rooney: All Singing! All Dancing! All Terrific!!!
The skill and professionalism honed onstage since he could walk, combined with an inimitable exuberance, made this diminutive Brooklynite Hollywood’s hottest draw over his adolescence, and a welcome screen presence throughout a career that continues to infinity. The son of…
Read more →The Sound of Music: A Guest Review
Guest blogger Katie Scarlett writes: Sky-diving, bungee-cord jumping, watching a classic musical in a theatre; these are all things that make life a thrilling experience. Everyone should have the experience to watch a vintage film on a big screen with…
Read more →Beau James: Inside Jim Garner’s New Autobiography
Smooth-talking and amiable as they come, you’d think James Garner pretty much made his living playing himself on the big and small screen. But one of the revelations of The Garner Files, the new autobiography written by the actor with…
Read more →It Happened Inside The Theater
Strange things can happen anywhere, but things that occur in movie theaters tend to be REALLY strange. Case in point: Years ago, I was a regular guest on a popular morning radio show. We would take calls each week, allowing…
Read more →Facebook Fan Holiday Offer
Last week Movies Unlimited unveiled our first Facebook Fan Only Offer. It was such a huge success that we decided to offer a second Facebook Fan Only offer. This week it’s a holiday themed offer. Not a Fan of Movies…
Read more →Jerry Maguire: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about Jerry Maguire from 1996, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add…
Read more →Ask Movie Irv: How Do You Shop for a Movie Collector?
Got a question to Ask Movie Irv? Not of the “When is (title X) coming out on DVD/Blu-ray?” variety—he gets plenty of those queries via the Ask MovieFanFare, DVD Beat and TV Tip Sheet threads—and not of the “trivia quiz”…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 12.11.11
December 11, 1930: A protest of All Quiet on the Western Front by members of the Nazi Party in Berlin will lead to the banning of the film from Germany. December 12, 1939: Douglas Fairbanks, dashing and athletic leading man…
Read more →It’s Not a Threat, It’s a Promise: Film Noir Quotes Part II
Previously on MovieFanFare guest blogger Karen Burroughs Hannsberry presented an assortment of her favorite film noir quotes. Today she’s back with more of her favorite selections of hard-boiled dialogue: You gotta love the language of film noir. Hard-boiled, cynical, straight…
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