Rip Torn, the veteran actor known for playing a string of complex and cantankerous characters, has died at the age of 88. An Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for his work in the 1983 drama Cross Creek, Torn is perhaps…
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Michael Innes, who is best known for his novels featuring detective Sir John Appleby, was a prolific author for over fifty years (1930s-1980s). In 1953, he penned a little book entitled Christmas at Candleshoe which Walt Disney Studios subsequently produced…
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It’s been awhile since we’ve had a week crammed with as many great new Blu-ray and DVD releases as this one! Now available are everything from recent theatrical hits to an assortment of Greta Garbo classics unearthed from the Warner…
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For the past couple of weeks, MovieFanFare has been celebrating the 30th anniversary of the summer movies of 1989. This was a film season that gave us contemporary classics like Do the Right Thing, Batman, Dead Poets Society, Lethal Weapon…
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Bette Davis was one of the greatest actresses who ever lived, in my opinion. She could pull off sultry sirens, innocent ingenues and beastly characters with equal panache. One only has to watch Dark Victory, All About Eve or Whatever Happened to…
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Espionage films were all the rage in the mid-1960s, a fever that had been ignited by Ian Fleming‘s James Bond spy series. George Segal investigated neo-Nazis in The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Michael Caine had starred in the Harry Carter films…
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With Fourth of July week upon us, the fireworks aren’t confined to the sky. There’s a number of explosive new DVD and Blu-ray releases making their home video debuts this week. So set aside some time in the coming days…
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A murder mystery set aboard a train cruising through snow-covered mountains? Add Charles Bronson and an Old West setting and you’ve got Breakheart Pass. As discussed previously at this blog, I’m a big fan of mixed genres and, in particular,…
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Like most of you out there, I am a collector. I often joke that I am one flat cat away from being on a Hoarders episode, but I love my stuff. DVDs/Blu-rays, CDs, books, action figures, collectibles, you name it,…
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It was January of 1943 that the moviegoing first had the opportunity to see Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn team up for the second time onscreen in Keeper of the Flame. Based on the novel by I.A.R. Wylie, the movie…
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