The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) The 1985 documentary, The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal, provides an overview of the career of the famed animator, producer, director, writer and stop-motion pioneer as simply as it possibly can:…
Read more →
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” That’s what I said said to myself last week when my January article A Hundred (Minus One) Great Film Quotes Not in the 2011 Movies Unlimited Catalog took over the top spot as Movie FanFare’s…
Read more →
Here are 10 trivia facts about The Rocketeer from 1991, which originally appeared as a Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are lots of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more…
Read more →
Breakfast at Tiffany’s was on TCM recently, and so I watched it for the bazillionth time, as usual. However, during this particular viewing I realized something that I hadn’t before. I could care less if Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard…
Read more →February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith‘s Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it “like writing history with lightning.” February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to…
Read more →
“The gun gives you the power of life or death. It’s a funny sort of thing to have control over life and death. You must have had it during the war. You could miss a man if you had a mind…
Read more →
Guest blogger Kendra Bean writes: When Julien DuVivier’s production of Anna Karenina was released in theatres in 1948 it received less-than-stellar notices, especially concerning its leading lady, Vivien Leigh. Critics called it a “beautiful failure” and said Vivien failed to portray…
Read more →
Providing the voice for one of Walt Disney’s animated heroines is a cinematic trophy only a handful of actresses can lay claim to. But providing the voice for two of Disney’s animated heroines is a one-of-a-kind achievement that can only…
Read more →
Guest blogger Victoria Balloon writes: Already popular in comics and radio, Superman had previously starred in two serials: Superman (1948) and Atom-Man vs. Superman (1950) If our hero could leap tall buildings in a single bound, surely he could make…
Read more →
The title of a new biography by Michael Gregg Michaud is simple enough: Sal Mineo. So it comes as no surprise that the book covers the career and life trajectory of its subject, the late two-time Oscar-nominated actor who made…
Read more →Copyright © 2025 MovieFanFare