It’s time for MovieFanFare to step up to the plate with a roster of some of our favorite baseball movies. Check it out and see which celluloid diamond stars made the line-up.
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Sherlock Holmes (1922): The Great Profile’s Great Detective
Based on a popular stage play, the 1922 whodunit Sherlock Holmes featured screen heartthrob John Barrymore in the title role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer offers her take on the Great Profile’s turn as Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 03.30.14
Ready for this? It’s been exactly 40 years since San Francisco performance artist Robert Opel got his 15 minutes by streaking the Oscarcast. We’ve got even more movie milestones to lay bare.
Read more →Noah’s Ark (1928): Fake Flood, Real Deaths
One of the spring’s most publicized movie releases is Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic Noah. See how, 85 years earlier, another cinematic look at the Old Testament story turned into a costly disaster…if not at the box office, then in lives lost during the production.
Read more →Which Movies Will Flop in 2014?
You can have big budgets, you can have big stars…but that’s still no guarantee of a big hit. Let’s give Irv a crystal ball and see if he can predict what movies are going to be the biggest bombs of 2014!
Read more →Cinema Desilu
While they’ll always be remembered as the Ricardos on TV’s I Love Lucy, stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz also had big-screen success before, during and after their marriage. MovieFanFare looks at the duo’s work, focusing on their ’50s films The Long, Long Trailer and Forever Darling.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis Movie?
Last time out we wanted to know your favorite Jerry Lewis movie, and several of you wrote about Jerry’s work with Dean Martin. Well, you spoke and we listened, so here’s a poll asking for your top Martin and Lewis comedy.
Read more →Tuning in on Inside Llewyn Davis and Other Folk Tales
With the DVD and Blu-ray release of Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers’ love letter to the folk music scene of early ’60s Greenwich Village, we fiddled around and came up with more favorite folk-centric flicks.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 03.23.14
It’s been exactly 35 years since life came perilously close to imitating art, as the reactor accident at Three Mile Island occurred 12 days after the opening of The China Syndrome. We went fission for more film factoids to forward.
Read more →Family Business: Actors with a Classic Film Star Parent
It’s not always easy following in your parents’ footsteps, especially if they’re some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Rick29 looks at the screen careers of James Mitchum, Patrick Wayne, Mary Crosby and other sons and daughters of Tinseltown royalty.
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