Whether he was playing a Mob underling looking out for his longshoreman brother (On the Waterfront), an infamous Chicago gangster (Al Capone), an embittered Holocaust survivor (The Pawnbroker), or a small-town Southern police chief (In the Heat of the Night),…
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Before they became “Desperate,” the housewife was a staple in TV and movies. Usually she was subservient to her husband (and the plot). Other times she was the smartest and cleverest one in the room. Think Lucy on I…
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Four hundred years ago, no one watching Othello at the Globe Theatre cheered when Iago came on stage. Moviegoers in 1946 didn’t root for Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life. That was then, of course. Nowadays, some of…
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Famed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola turns 87 on Tuesday, April 7 this year. The Academy Award-winning writer/director/producer (and noted winemaker) is undoubtedly best known for being the creative force behind the Godfather series. Beyond his genre-defining Mafia saga, however,…
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On behalf of all of us at MovieFanFare, we wish you and yours Happy Easter and Passover. Are watching certain films during these celebrations a part of your family’s tradition? If so, tell us which movies you watch during this…
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They’re a different kind of threesome in this 2001 action/comedy written by Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks) and directed by Barry Levinson (The Natural). Starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton as bank robbers and a red-headed Cate Blanchett as an…
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The month of April is here, and with it comes a shower of Hollywood classics debuting on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive collection, all newly restored in 4K. There’s Spencer Tracy’s first Academy Award-winning performance as well as his…
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“Didn’t that guy ever have hair?” So said time traveler Marty McFly upon encountering his 1985 high school principal, Mr. Strickland, 30 years in the past in Back to the Future. Well, as the above picture of Strickland’s portrayer, James…
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A beloved star of many classic Hollywood musicals, Academy Award nominee Debbie Reynolds would have been 94 this Wednesday. A native of El Paso, Texas, Mary Frances Reynolds moved with her family to California when she was seven. After…
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With the 2026 baseball season officially underway, what better time to look at The Natural, a classic 1984 film about America’s favorite pastime? Directed capably by Barry Levinson (Diner) it stars all-American Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, a pitching and…
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