Guest blogger Will Silver writes: From the moment in 1987 when I first heard the title RoboCop, I knew that I had to see this film. I never saw it in the theater, but I clearly remember renting it shortly…
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Surprise! 2012 Oscar Predictions
What’s that everybody always says about the Oscars being predictable? Well, maybe we’re just blowing that up this year. Who could have guessed that producer Brett Ratner (he of the Rush Hour films and the less-than-revered third X-Men movie) would…
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Finally! Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection on DVD
MovieFanFare is thrilled to have Leonard Maltin returning for another guest post today: It’s a cultural crime that the greatest comedy team of all time has been so forsaken on DVD…until now. Therefore, I’m happy to report that Laurel &…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 11.13.11
November 13, 1921: After gaining fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Italian-born leading man Rudolph Valentino mesmerizes female filmgoers as The Sheik. November 19, 1924: Mystery surrounds the death of director Thomas H. Ince. Rumors suggest he was…
Read more →The Aplomb of Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom, perhaps best known as Inspector Clouseau’s long-suffering boss in the Pink Panther films, had a lengthy career on film and TV. “Movie Irv” Slifkin offers a salute to the Czech-born actor.
Read more →‘Quirky’ and Hollywood: Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson
Guest blogger Sophie Stephenson writes: In Sofia Coppola’s films The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, themes of troubled adolescence, nostalgia, romance and distanced family relations are present throughout them all. Other aspects which mark her out as…
Read more →A (R)ite of Passage With Your First R-Rated Movie
Remember your first R-rated movie? For young movie fans, it’s a major rite of passage whether you see your first “Restricted” title on the big or small screen. At least it used to be. Who knows what’s going on with those…
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From Johann Strauss to George Gershwin: Music! Music! Music!
The focus of Rhapsody in Blue (1945) is the incredible story and classic music of George Gershwin, whose short life ended at age 39, just a few years before this film was made. The bio-drama from Warner Brothers. stars Robert…
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