Which are the greatest movie sword fights? Here are five of the finest examples of film fencing in cinema history. Leave your mark by adding to our list!
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10 Things I Love About Sunset Boulevard
Six decades after its debut, Sunset Boulevard remains one of the most biting big-screen looks at Hollywood. Guest writer Marsha Collock offers her list of 10 key moments, performances and lines from Billy Wilder’s acerbic dark comedy.
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Can’t remember the name of a movie you liked? Know the movie, but not the stars? Looking to see if a film is out on home video? Here’s your chance to “Ask MovieFanFare” and see if our crack staff of film experts can help you fulfill your cinematic quest.
Read more →Back to the Future: Ten Things to Know About the Movie
Time really does fly: it’s been 30 years since Back to the Future first hit theaters (at 88 miles per hour). To celebrate, we’re presenting this classic look at 10 trivia tidbits about the 1985 sci-fi comedy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Pixar Animated Feature Film?
With Inside Out, Pixar’s 15th feature in 20 years, now playing in theaters, this week’s poll asks which of the animation studio’s films is your favorite. Choices include the Toy Story films, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Up, Brave and more.
Read more →This Week in Film History: 6/28/15
Surely it wasn’t 35 years ago this week that the “disaster film” spoof Airplane!, with Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays, opened? It looks like you picked the wrong week to stop reading movie trivia, because we’ve got more inside.
Read more →How to Get Through Stormy Weather
How do we watch a great movie like “Stormy Weather” (1943) today? Can we enjoy the film without thinking about “race”? Should we? Read on, and then tell us what you think about this classic musical starring Lena Horne and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
Read more →So, What Were the WORST Movies of 1939?
Humphrey Bogart as a vampire? Ronald Reagan and the Dead End Kids? For the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon, we present this classic look at 10 less-than-classic movies released the same year as Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
Read more →“Maha?” “Aha!”: The Three Stooges in Three Little Pirates (1946)
A classic Three Stooges routine, the “Maha” sketch, was featured in their 1946 short Three Little Pirates. For the “…And Scene!” Blogathon, we salute what turned out be one of Curly’s funniest–and final–moments with the slapstick trio.
Read more →Newman and Woodward Heat Up The Long, Hot Summer
Wandering “bad boy” Paul Newman woos Joanne Woodward, daughter of Mississippi plantation owner Orson Welles, in The Long, Hot Summer. Guest writer Emily Rauber reviews the steamy 1958 drama and its Cinemascope splendor.
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