It’s been exactly 80 years since King Kong first scaled the Empire State. Read on for more milestones we’re marking in Hollywood history, from the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s first directing job to John Wayne’s breakout as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach.
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What’s Your Favorite ’80s Movie Musical?
This weeks movie poll focuses on movie musicals from the eighties. We would like to know, What’s Your Favorite ’80s Movie Musical? Remember Xanadu, Flashdance, Purple Rain, Little Shop of Horrors, and many others?
Read more →The Five Best Courtroom Films
Which are the best courtroom movies? Guest blogger Rick29 loves a good courtroom drama. There’s so much natural tension in a trial… they just seem tailor-made for the cinema. See if you agree with his five favorites.
Read more →What’s the Most Memorable Wardrobe in Movie History?
Indiana Jones’s hat? Bogart’s trenchcoat? Ursula Andress’s bikini? Name your favorite movie costume (or costume piece) right after Irv suits up to do the same…
Read more →Disc-ussion: Remembering the RCA CED System
Hang around long enough, and you get to see lots of home media formats that were heralded as here to stay wind up crashed upon the shoals. We’re setting the Wayback Machine for the early ’80s, to revisit the rise and fall of RCA’s CED disc player–Remember it?
Read more →Originally Starring 4
Cool Hand Luke was supposed to played by Telly Savalas? Sammy Davis, Jr. tabbed as Beetlejuice? Yes, these were the actors who didn’t win the starring role despite being seriously considered to play the part. (You can see them here.)
Read more →A 007…And Seven
Ever wonder about the product placement in the James Bond movies? Today’s guest blogger James H. Burns did. Read what he has to say in this article.
Read more →Barbara Bel Geddes: Underrated Performer of the Week
The career of the “Dallas” star is the focus of today’s guest post by Rick29.. Do you remember Barbara Bel Geddes as Katrin in the 1948 classic I Remember Mama?
Read more →What’s Your Favorite 1939 Best Picture Oscar Nominee?
This week’s Move FanFare poll looks at the Academy Awards for 1939, “Hollywood’s Golden Year.” Which of the 10 Best PIcture nominees–Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz among them–do you think most deserved to take the top prize?
Read more →This Week In Film History, 02.17.13
We’re marking the fall of the Walls of Jericho in It Happened One Night, Gene Autry taking on robot desperadoes in The Phantom Empire, and the opening (and yes, tanking) of Bringing Up Baby. That’s just a sampling of the Hollywood highlights we’re heralding.
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