In a 1976 M*A*S*H episode, Hawkeye talked about the familiarity of American life during the Great Depression. “You knew where you stood in those days,” he says. “Franklin Roosevelt was always president, Joe Louis was always the champ, and Paul…
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/theme. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the films. When it comes to classic horror films, few names are more…
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With such films as Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal Pictures set the tone for 1930s horror cinema, but other studios sometimes matched–or beat–them in scares. Read about Island of Lost Souls, Mad Love and eight more shock classics.
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With this month’s arrival of the movie version of the Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, we thought it would be a good time to look at other Broadway musical-to-film transfers to see how they fared….
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published this past June to commemorate Ms. Lockhart’s 100th birthday. MovieFanFare reprints it today to remember the beloved actress’s passing, at age 100, on Thursday, October 23 at her Santa Monica home. Think…
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Sure, Bela Lugosi is easily the most famous movie Dracula, but Christopher Lee put his own menacing mark on the role. Beginning with 1958’s Dracula (known in the U.S. as Horror of Dracula), the London-born actor portrayed Bram Stoker’s…
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It’s one of the most iconic scenes in motion picture history. The giant ape Kong, clinging atop New York’s Empire State Building, fends off an aerial assault by a squadron of machine-gun mounted biplanes in 1933’s King Kong. It’s been…
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Believe it or not, 2025 marks 70 years since Clint Eastwood made his motion picture debut. Discovered in 1953-54 while he was serving in the Army at California’s since-closed Fort Ord, the 24-year-old Golden State native auditioned for Universal Pictures…
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Halloween is always a good time for a frightfest, so today I’d like to suggest four movies and one TV show that fit the bill. The oldest title is from 1965, the most current one from 2008. I guess that…
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“Sometimes they’re faithful childhood companions, sometimes they’re the stuff of youthful nightmares, and often they wind up being both.” This is how I began a 2014 MovieFanFare article spotlighting the most frightening dolls, dummies, and puppets in cinema. Since…
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