July 22, 1934: After seeing MGM’s Manhattan Melodrama at Chicago’s Biograph Theater, gangster John Dillinger is gunned down outside by G-men. July 20, 1938: The major film studios are named to a governmental antitrust lawsuit over their dominance in both…
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Serenade Me, Mr. Powell: 20 Million Sweethearts (1943)
Ginger Rogers is a triple threat. She can sing, act and dance. She even won an Oscar for her 1941 performance in Kitty Foyle. I taped several of her films that I haven’t seen (I’m trying to see all of…
Read more →Director Stewart Raffill Talks About Standing Ovation
Stewart Raffill has made many films in different genres. He’s made action films (High Risk), sci-fi what-ifs (The Philadelphia Experiment), erotic thrillers (Survival Island) , monster movies (Croc) and more than his share of family films (including The Adventures of…
Read more →Talking Pictures, Last: Swimming To Cambodia
Searching for the “perfect moment” to post my appraisal of Jonathan Demme’s 1987 filming of the Spalding Gray monologue Swimming to Cambodia was bound to be frustrating. The film hasn’t been available on DVD for some time (UPDATE: now it…
Read more →Godzilla (Gojira) Create-A Caption
You know the drill. Below is a classic Godzilla (Gojira) (poll) movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! Honestly, it wasn’t me who caused all this death & destruction. What’s this in my…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Godzilla Foe?
Over the years Japan’s big green stomping machine has fought such enormous enemies as Mothra, King Kong, the three-headed Ghidorah and his own bionic counterpart. Vote in MovieFanFare’s poll for the Godzilla foe you like best.
Read more →This Week In Film History, 07.11.10
July 14, 1908: Edison Company actor D.W. Griffith makes his directing debut with The Adventures of Dollie, the first of over 500 works to come. July 12, 1912: Adolph Zukor releases a French film, Queen Elizabeth, starring stage star Sarah…
Read more →Out of the Past (1947): A Film Noir Masterpiece
Guest blogger Sarkoffagus writes: Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is living a quiet life, running a gas station in a small town. But then a stranger drives his car into town, and everything changes. It seems that someone from Jeff’s past…
Read more →The Killer Inside Me & Vintage Noir
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And sometimes, desperate movies. You can’t get any more desperate than film noir, dark movies in which corruption, duplicity, violence and dames collide. There certainly is no absence of film noir on the big…
Read more →A Letter to Three Wives
One Saturday morning, Deborah Bishop (Jeanne Crain), Lora Mae Hollingsway (Linda Darnell), and Rita Phipps (Ann Sothern), get together to take a bunch of children on a boat trip and a picnic. Only problem is, there was supposed to be…
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