Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in November of 2009. It’s an all-too-common occurrence in sports. A talented player achieves great success, but stays in the game a little too long, and instead of ending on a high note…
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It seems hard to believe, but a number of classic Hollywood films are celebrating their 100th birthday this year. The Age of Silent Movies may have reached its peak in 1925. The roster of releases ranges from groundbreaking war drama…
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If today’s network TV landscape seems dominated by shows with either “Chicago,” “CSI,” or “NCIS” in their title, back in the late ’50s and early ’60s it was a wild and wooly frontier ruled by the cowboy. Western programs boasting…
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Well, I hope you all did your civic duty before Tuesday and voted on the Fan Ballot website for the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. While I didn’t choose them, I’m looking forward to current top…
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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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