He belonged to one of Hollywood’s most idiosyncratic acting families, and early in his film career he was often cast alongside his better-known siblings. His most famous screen role, though, may have been as the head “brother” in…
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Throughout his nearly 70-year career on the stage, television, and in film, Robert Duvall demonstrated what the New York Times called the innate ability “to immerse himself in roles so deeply that he seemed to almost disappear into them.”…
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From serial killers to psychotic cyborgs to the Frankenstein Monster himself, few actors put the shivers up moviegoers’ spines in the ’80s and ’90s like Tom Noonan. The towering (6′ 5″) film heavy, who died last week at 74,…
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Since it is Black History Month, here at MovieFanFare we thought we’d look at a classic film that examines racism, sexual abuse, and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. The Color Purple (1985) has the dubious distinction of being…
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Spring may feel as though it’s still years away, but we’re just about a month from the release of six titles on Blu-ray and 4K special editions from the Criterion Collection. Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed neo-western crime drama, a timeless…
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It came in the final 15 minutes of the film, and it didn’t include a single line of dialogue. Regardless, Robert Duvall’s appearance as the mysterious Arthur “Boo” Radley in 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird ranks as one of the…
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He’s the only four-time Best Director Academy Award winner. Curiously, though, legendary filmmaker John Ford–whose birthday was earlier this month–never won for the movie genre he’s most associated with: westerns. His quartet of Oscars came for The Informer (1935),…
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It may not seem odd in an era of Dark Shadows reruns, Anne Rice novels, and the Twilight films, but one has to wonder what moviegoers thought on Valentine’s Day, 1931. Opening in theatres nationwide was a new Universal picture…
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They were two very different actors who found critical and commercial success before they were old enough to legally drink. One used his deadpan demeanor and hangdog expression to specialize in oddball roles with some of film’s top independent directors….
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Some cynics out there might call this the perfect weekend: a Friday the 13th followed by Valentine’s Day. Here at MovieFanFare, we’ll wear our heart on our sleeve (yuck!) for this calendrical conjunction of misfortune and amour while we ask…
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