On the eve of the Academy Awards, movie fans were shocked this morning to learn of the death of two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife at their New Mexico home. A true everyman, Hackman had a career spanning over…
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Call it the “Cousin Oliver Curse” or “Scrappy-Doo Syndrome.” It’s when a new character is introduced into a long-running TV series with hopes of “refreshing” things, only to meet with negative audience response. One show that managed to survive this…
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Would having a Best Comedy/Musical category enhance or dilute the Oscars? MovieFanFare looks at the idea of splitting the Best Picture Academy Award in two and offers an alternate history of which films would have won from 1928 to the present. .
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Director/co-scripter James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown picked up an impressive three acting nominations at this year’s Academy Awards: Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and Timothée Chalamet as Dylan. Since 1978’s The Buddy…
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It’s one of the enduring mysteries of the Academy Awards nominating process. How do two performers who seem to have equal billing and equal screen time in a film wind up with one being tapped for the lead category and…
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George Burns, Charlton Heston, Alanis Morissette, Morgan Freeman: the list of performers who have played the Judeo-Christian God on the big screen is a list both selective and eclectic. Perhaps the first actor to tackle the part was an imposing…
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Well, today is Presidents’ Day, everyone. On a related note, first-time Oscar nominee Sebastian Stan is up for a Best Actor award for playing a pre-White House Donald Trump in The Apprentice. This marks the ninth time that an actor…
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Today is, of course, Valentine’s Day. A recent news article stated that every year Americans purchase over 36 million boxes of chocolates to give to their sweethearts on the 14th of February…but there’s no precise statistic as to how many…
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Well, Super Bowl LIX has come and gone. And for movie fans who tune into the game for the debuting trailers as much as for the football, there was a wide assortment of titles to enjoy…even if they seemed to…
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There would have been a certain bittersweet symmetry if actor Tony Roberts–who passed away last Friday at the age of 85–had won either of the two Antoinette Perry Award nominations he received back in 1968-69, just so the headlines could…
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