What can Salma Hayek and Julie Taymor’s beautiful 2002 biopic of Frida Kahlo reveal to us about the “suffering artist” cliché? A lot, as it turns out…especially if you wind up struggling to provide a decent answer to that question.
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An amnesiac WWII veteran finds himself facing a court martial for treason and goes on the lam to clear his name in The Clay Pigeon. Guest writer Laura Grieve takes aim at the 1949 RKO thriller, which starred real-life couple Bill Williams and Barbara Hale.
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It was a heart attack, not sunlight or a stake, that claimed the life of Bela Lugosi 59 years ago this week. To honor the screen’s most famous Dracula, we offer this classic list by Movies Unlimited founder Jerry Frebowitz of 10 facts about the horror legend.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of The Usual Suspects and Kevin Spacey’s Academy Award-winning turn, we’d like to know which of the two-time Oscar winner’s screen roles–from suburban everymen to evil grasshoppers to Bobby Darin–is your favorite.
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Has it really been 20 years since audiences first asked the question “Who is Keyzer Soze?” with the premiere of the hit caper film The Usual Suspects? No need to interrogate us for more Hollywood facts; we’ve got a week’s worth of trivia inside.
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An adventure-seeking schoolgirl gets more than she bargained for when she becomes involved with an older man and some jewel thieves in The Flapper. For the Anti-Damsel Blogathon, we review this 1920 comedy starring silent film beauty Olive Thomas.
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As part of this week’s Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon,MovieFanFare reviews the 1958 biodrama Too Much, Too Soon, starring Errol Flynn as hard-drinking screen idol John Barrymore and Dorothy Malone as his daughter Diana, who followed in his footsteps on and off the screen.
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The Walter Huston film “Kongo” is the talkie remake of the silent classic “West of Zanzibar” starring the great Lon Chaney…but Huston actually played “Dead Legs” Flint first. Follow that? Check out our classic post about the two jungle thrillers and tell us which is your favorite.
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Nelson Eddy is a Harvard-educated lawyer who returns to his frontier hometown and helps free it from crooked railroad magnate Edward Arnold’s grip in Let Freedom Ring. Guest blogger Jessica Pickens reviews the 1939 MGM western/musical.
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In this 10th installment of MoveFanFare’s long-running Letter Imperfect series, more film poster titles are altered ever so slightly—causing enormous “see” changes!
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