Sure, you know the elite actors of our modern era and their hit films, but sometimes a certain movie of theirs flies under the radar. Perhaps their performance in a previous movie was stellar by comparison; maybe another blockbuster film…
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Do You Have The Right Stuff? A Critical Overview of The Movie
Many films are instant classics such as: Gone With The Wind or theLord of the Rings series. However, many of our most cherished movies have been sleepers; Bringing up Baby and Citizen Kane were both box office busts and required decades to achieve…
Read more →From That Certain Summer to She Woke Up Pregnant…
These days made-for-TV movies on network and basic cable channels are relegated to the Lifetime network (television for women… and gay men) and mostly continue the practice of the “women in jeopardy” genre, often with “fatal” or “deadly” in the…
Read more →“Bastards” With An “a”: The Original Inglorious Bastards
Now that drive-in genre auteur Quentin Tarantino’s long-talked-about World War II saga Inglourious Basterds has finally made it onto the big screen–and captured the box office brass ring on its opening weekend–two questions remain in the public’s mind: What’s up…
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Question: As always, I enjoy your column each month. I was wondering if you had any information concerning DVD releases of the following films: Belle Starr (1941) Springtime in the Rockies (1942) Song of the Islands (1942) Yolanda & the…
Read more →Inglourious Basterds (2009): Movie Review
“Movie Irv” Slifkin launches a movie review feature on MovieFanFare.com with his unscripted thoughts about Quentin Tarantino’s long-in-development, finally here, already controversial deconstruction of the “men on a mission” war film subgenre. Has he saved you the price of a…
Read more →Apollo 13
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! The astronauts cruised through most training sessions. But preparing for toilets with no stall divisions:…
Read more →Dick Miller: Roger Corman’s Go-To Guy
Iconic low-budget filmmaker Roger Corman (article) is famous for the array of top directors–among them James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante, Ron Howard, and Martin Scorsese–who got some of their first breaks working for him at the American International…
Read more →Deja View: More Movie Poster Lookalikes
Here are more “poster doppelgangers” that confirm to movie fans like yourself that, yes, you have seen that poster before! I’ve tried to keep the obvious low budget rip-offs of famous movie one-sheets and parody posters to a minimum. Lazy marketing strategies and…
Read more →Film Geeks Unite! Behind Steven Soderbergh’s Widescreen Beef
Pan-and-scanning widescreen images—still?!?—in the era of hi-def, widescreen television? You betcha. Check out what director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s 11-13, Out of Sight) has to say about this absurdity (especially as it relates to Jaws) in an interview appearing in the…
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