Now that Leonardo Di Caprio finally has a Best Actor Academy Award, which of his winless “D” colleagues, Johnny Depp or Robert Downey, Jr., do you think will take home an Oscar next? Let us know in this week’s film poll.
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One of John Wayne’s best-loved collaborations with director John Ford, the powerful frontier drama The Searchers, opened 60 years ago this week. If you’re searching for more notable dates from Hollywood’s past, we’ve got plenty inside.
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Wild plots, crazy characters and rapid-fire dialogue marked the screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s. For his MovieFanFare debut, writer Nathaniel Cerf examines the genre where such stars as Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and others showed off their funny bones.
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Virginia Mayo is the “girl with the heart of ice” who lets her mob lawyer boyfriend (Zachary Scott) take the fall for a killing she committed in Flaxy Martin. Guest blogger Kristen Lopez shines a light in the 1949 noir drama, which co-starred Dorothy Malone.
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He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Paul Newman’s prison pal in Cool Hand Luke and was ace aviation engineer Joe Patroni in the Airport films. MovieFanFare remembers George Kennedy, who died this past Sunday at 91.
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You can’t judge a book by its cover…and, sometimes, you can’t judge a film by what’s on its poster. Take a look at this classic post featuring at 10 examples of movie poster mistakes and see where–and, maybe, why–the artists goofed.
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Last night Leonardo DiCaprio took home the Best Actor Academy Award for The Revenant. To celebrate, we’re asking which of Leo’s movie roles–from Titanic, The Aviator, Inception and more–is your favorite.
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Moviegoers thrilled at the debut of “The Eight Wonder of the World,” the original King Kong, 83 years this week. Get ready to “go ape” over the other key dates we’ve collected for you inside.
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Thelma Ritter received six Academy Award nominations over a 13-year period but never took home the golden statue. For the Oscar Snubs Blogathon, we compare the beloved character actress’s performances with the ones that beat her out.
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Ex-vaudevillian George Burns finds a surprise inside his car’s trunk–teenage runaway Brooke Shields–in 1979’s Just You and Me, Kid. Guest writer Todd Liebenow isn’t kidding when he says the comedy just makes the grade as a vehicle for its disparate stars.
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