Edward G. Robinson starred as the 19th-century German researcher who fought stigma and skeptics as he sought a cure for syphilis in Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet. For the Movie Scientist Blogathon, we review the 1940 Warner Bros. biodrama.
Read more →
George Clooney plays a ’50s film star who’s kidnapped in the new movie Hail, Caesar!, but in 1925 crooks plotted to abduct silent screen heroine Mary Pickford and hold her for ransom. Guest writer Patrick Downey shares the remarkable true-crime story.
Read more →
The big screen’s second Robin the Boy Wonder; the sexy love interest of The Last Dragon; and Police Academy Commandant Lassard: We remember Johnny Duncan, Vanity and George Gaynes.
Read more →
Some old films had great casts who wound up outshone by other elements. In this classic post, Movies Unlimited founder Jerry Frebowitz talks about how the setting was the star of Man on the Eiffel Tower, Broadway Limited and other vintage pictures.
Read more →
This year’s Academy Awards Best Picture nominee list features eight pictures, but several worthy films didn’t make the cut. We’d like to which know which neglected movie–Carol, Creed, Inside Out and Trumbo, to name a few–you would have been included.
Read more →
After wowing filmgoers in her native Swedish, the alluring Greta Garbo made her Hollywood debut in MGM’s Torrent, which opened 90 years ago this week. We’ve got a torrent of interesting Tinseltown trivia waiting for you inside.
Read more →
For Valentine’s Day weekend, MovieFanFare’s Six Pix isn’t sorry to present six posters from an assortment of films, all with “love” in the title. Check them out and let us know which poster you think is the most romantic.
Read more →
A private eye hired to track down a shady businessman’s fugitive mistress makes the potentially fatal mistake of falling for her. Guest writer Barry P. takes a look at Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 film noir gem Out of the Past, with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas.
Read more →
The quest for love in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome and modern times was the theme of Buster Keaton’s comedy Three Ages. For the Second Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, we travel back to 1923 and review Buster’s first feature as director/star.
Read more →
To date 19 men–Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg among them–have won two or more Best Director Academy Awards. We invite you to vote for your favorite multiple Oscar-winning filmmaker in this week’s poll.
Read more →Copyright © 2025 MovieFanFare