With apologies to Bon Jovi, this week’s MovieFanFare poll celebrates “November Rains.” Today is the anniversary of British-born actor Claude Rains’ birth. A four-time Academy Award nominee, William Claude Rains was born in London in 1889, one of 12 children…
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“You aren’t too smart, are you? I like that in a man.” Kathleen Turner to Wiliam Hurt in Body Heat (1981) “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)…
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Sometimes Hollywood deaths happen with a strange sense of coincidence. Just two months after Polly Holliday–who played wisecraking waitress Flo on the ’70s sitcom Alice–departed, the Oscar-nominated actress who originated the role in the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here…
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In a 1976 M*A*S*H episode, Hawkeye talked about the familiarity of American life during the Great Depression. “You knew where you stood in those days,” he says. “Franklin Roosevelt was always president, Joe Louis was always the champ, and Paul…
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/theme. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the films. When it comes to classic horror films, few names are more…
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With such films as Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal Pictures set the tone for 1930s horror cinema, but other studios sometimes matched–or beat–them in scares. Read about Island of Lost Souls, Mad Love and eight more shock classics.
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With this month’s arrival of the movie version of the Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, we thought it would be a good time to look at other Broadway musical-to-film transfers to see how they fared….
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published this past June to commemorate Ms. Lockhart’s 100th birthday. MovieFanFare reprints it today to remember the beloved actress’s passing, at age 100, on Thursday, October 23 at her Santa Monica home. Think…
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Sure, Bela Lugosi is easily the most famous movie Dracula, but Christopher Lee put his own menacing mark on the role. Beginning with 1958’s Dracula (known in the U.S. as Horror of Dracula), the London-born actor portrayed Bram Stoker’s…
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It’s one of the most iconic scenes in motion picture history. The giant ape Kong, clinging atop New York’s Empire State Building, fends off an aerial assault by a squadron of machine-gun mounted biplanes in 1933’s King Kong. It’s been…
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