Maybe you heard: Ben Affleck is the new Batman! Maybe you also heard: He directed “Argo,” the Best Picture winner of last year’s Oscars. Those two facts make rendering the overrated/underrated verdict a challenge…but our Cinema Crusader is ready. POW!
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Coherence
Some (most?) movies you forget about the second they’re over. Some few others are skillfully made enough to linger in your mind, or even get you talking. Low of budget but high on smarts and expert in execution, “Coherence” is a brain-twister to savor.
Read more →Six Pix: Artists
Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. This Six Pix is a stroke of genius. Included are: Rembrandt…
Read more →The Importance of Being Ernst: Who’ll Be the New Blofeld?
After literal decades of legal wrangling, the makers of the 007 films are able–as well as ready and willing–to bring back iconic nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld to menace Bond once more. Here’s our thoughts on who should get to pet the kitty.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 12.01.13
It was exactly 110 years ago this week that film storytelling as we know it had its genesis with the release of Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery. We’ve drawn on other movie mileposts to share.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Susan Hayward Film Performance?
For 1940s and ’50s movie audiences, few actresses played downtrodden, put-upon heroines as well as Susan Hayward. MovieFanFare salutes the Oscar-winner by asking you to vote for your top Hayward film performance.
Read more →It’s Really Not a Very Funny, Funny, Funny, Funny Movie
With a cast that reads like a Who’s Who of movie comedy, Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World debuted 50 years ago this month. Does it, however, hold up in the laughs department? Read on to see why one reviewer says, for the most part, no.
Read more →Wyoming Renegades (1954): Western Movie Review
Paul Newman and Robert Redford weren’t the first to play Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the movies. Laura G look at 1954’s Wyoming Renegades, starring Phil Carey as an ex-partner of the infamous duo who tries to reform.
Read more →Burt Lancaster: J.J. Hunsecker vs. Elmer Gantry
One actor. Two film roles. You tell us which portrayal was the best. The most memorable. Or iconic. Or simply your favorite. But before you pass judgment, a few words defending the “character” of each… The case for J.J. Hunsecker…
Read more →Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
SEX! There, now we have your attention. COMIC BOOK! There, now some other folks are listening. ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR. That about covers it. “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is not a film you want to miss.
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