Last week’s $64 million opening weekend for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning showed that audiences will still turn out for spy movies. The genre probably hit its zenith back in the late 1960s and early ’70s. James Bond,…
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. It was 48 years ago this week that the worlds of…
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Here at MovieFanFare we’d like to extend Memorial Day best wishes to all our readers, especially those who’ve served the country in the military. As America and the world mark the 80th anniversary of V-E Day this month, we like…
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Today is Memorial Day, a day of remembrance set aside to honor those who served–particularly those who gave their lives–in the defense of freedom and democracy. As we look back at the men and women who wore the country’s…
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As I discussed in a teaser trailer review back in February, one of this summer’s most anticipated releases is Warner Bros./DC Studios’ Superman. Writer/director James Gunn’s second cinematic foray (after 2021’s The Suicide Squad) into the DC Universe, it stars…
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You know your place in pop culture is secure when fans everywhere remember you by just one name. And for actor George Wendt, whose place was at the end of a Boston bar from 1982 to 1993, that name…
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Earlier this month popular character actor and ’70s action hero Joe Don Baker passed away at the age of 89. Whether he was swinging a mean hickory club as Tennessee lawman Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, stalking victims as…
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It’s kind of funny. One of my favorite movie memories of gruff and tough character actor Joe Don Baker features him wielding a baseball bat. And no, I don’t mean his 1973 starring turn as real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser…
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When one thinks about martial arts films, names such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li immediately spring (or leap) to mind. Many U.S. Baby Boomers got their first exposure to karate and kung fu from seeing…
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After six relatively quiet decades as a museum and occasional protest site, Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay found itself in the national spotlight last week, as the White House floated the idea of reopening the site’s notorious prison facilities….
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