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!
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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.
Read more →What Movie Will Never Be Remade?
What’s Your Favorite Jerry Lewis “Solo” Movie?
Comedy icon, fundraising hero and “total filmmaker” Jerry Lewis turned 88 this past weekend. To mark his birthday, this week’s poll asks which of Jerry’s post-Martin & Lewis movies is your favorite.
Read more →Guns and Cannon: For J. Lee Thompson on His 100th
From ’50s Brit cinema to Hollywood blockbusters to Golan/Globus “Cannon fodder,” director J. Lee Thompson forged a lengthy resume that defies pigeonholing. With his centenary coming up, we’re looking back on a singular body of work.
Read more →Reckless (1935): Movie Review
Real-life lovers Jean Harlow and William Powell were teamed up by MGM for 1935’s Reckless, about a stage actress pursued by both a wealthy playboy and her sports promoter friend. Guest blogger Jessica Pickens reviews the song-laced romance tale.
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