The midway point of the 20th century saw the official start of the Korean War, the debut of the comic strip “Peanuts,” and diplomat Ralph Bunche becoming the first Black American to win a Nobel Prize. 1950 was also the…
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We here at MovieFanFare staff thought this would be a good time to bring back one of our more popular posts, Create-a-Caption. And since Easter Sunday is just two days away, for this return installment we’re saluting the 1948 M-G-M…
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She was an English actress and writer who co-created a ’70s TV drama series that became one of the first British hits on this side of the Atlantic. He was a Canadian-born film and TV director whose eclectic résumé included…
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As we’re sure most of you are well aware, tomorrow is April 15th, better known across America as Tax Day. This country was founded on protests against taxes, and the topic has been a ripe subject for depiction on…
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It may seem unfathomable now, but for a 15-year period from December 1989 to March 2005 there were–save for 1996’s made-for-American TV movie–no new Doctor Who shows on television. A staple of British TV from its 1963 debut until its…
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If 21st-century Hollywood feels dominated by comic book-based movies, then ’50s and ’60s television owed a good deal to newspaper and magazine comic strips. The Addams Family, Blondie (twice), Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Hazel, Steve Canyon, and Terry and the…
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Movie fans–especially those who grew up watching the films of the ’80s and ’90s–are still reeling over the death last Tuesday of actor Val Kilmer at 65. For this week’s FanFare poll, we’re looking back over Kilmer’s diverse Hollywood career…
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“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game;…
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It almost felt like an April Fools’ Day prank when word hit that actor Val Kilmer, who had been battling throat cancer for years and had just reprised his 1986 role as crack pilot “Iceman” in last year’s hit Top…
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It’s Tuesday, April 1st, and that means it’s also New Release Day at MovieFanFare. Today is a particularly noteworthy one, as some long-awaited titles are making their home video debuts courtesy of a new label, Erehton Cinema. Collectors and film…
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