Is it an embrace of racism to say you love “The Little Rascals” today? Or is it the height of foolish political correctness to devote any time to acknowledging some of the films’ retrograde humor? Let’s dive in with the Rascals short “Moan and Groan.”
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Adept at both comedy and drama–and at mixing the two–Academy Award-winning writer/director Billy Wilder gave us some of Hollywood’s greatest movies. Vote for your top Wilder film in this week’s poll.
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It’s time for MovieFanFare to step up to the plate with a roster of some of our favorite baseball movies. Check it out and see which celluloid diamond stars made the line-up.
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Based on a popular stage play, the 1922 whodunit Sherlock Holmes featured screen heartthrob John Barrymore in the title role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer offers her take on the Great Profile’s turn as Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective.
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Ready for this? It’s been exactly 40 years since San Francisco performance artist Robert Opel got his 15 minutes by streaking the Oscarcast. We’ve got even more movie milestones to lay bare.
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One of the spring’s most publicized movie releases is Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic Noah. See how, 85 years earlier, another cinematic look at the Old Testament story turned into a costly disaster…if not at the box office, then in lives lost during the production.
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You can have big budgets, you can have big stars…but that’s still no guarantee of a big hit. Let’s give Irv a crystal ball and see if he can predict what movies are going to be the biggest bombs of 2014!
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While they’ll always be remembered as the Ricardos on TV’s I Love Lucy, stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz also had big-screen success before, during and after their marriage. MovieFanFare looks at the duo’s work, focusing on their ’50s films The Long, Long Trailer and Forever Darling.
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Last time out we wanted to know your favorite Jerry Lewis movie, and several of you wrote about Jerry’s work with Dean Martin. Well, you spoke and we listened, so here’s a poll asking for your top Martin and Lewis comedy.
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With the DVD and Blu-ray release of Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers’ love letter to the folk music scene of early ’60s Greenwich Village, we fiddled around and came up with more favorite folk-centric flicks.
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