2026 marks the 15th anniversary of the female-driven comedy Bridesmaids. The cast had a humorous mini-reunion at this year’s Oscars in March, and earlier this month new 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray versions were released. They include tons of…
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Climbing Mount Everest from the inside. Tracking down the Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton. Stealing the piano Napoleon played at Waterloo from the Louvre. From 1951 to 1960 British audiences heard stories like these every week on their radios. The…
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Today is the last Monday in May, which means it’s also Memorial Day. First observed in 1868, shortly after the Civil War, this nationwide annual event honors members of the U.S. military who fought, and sometimes died, defending America and…
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s 1847 gothic novel of doomed love, dark obsession, and revenge, has always been the perfect story for screen adaptations. And there have been many of them over the last hundred years. The first was a…
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We’re a good four months away from Talk Like a Pirate Day, which comes on September 19th. Today, though, let’s jump the gun with a look at a buccaneer film which premiered 50 years ago and is being released…
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In the first few decades of filmmaking, the “monster movie” scene was dominated by classic supernatural creatures. Vampires (Nosferatu, Dracula), reanimated dead men (Frankenstein, The Mummy), werewolves (The Wolf Man), and other fiends culled from legend and Gothic literature were…
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Born between 1981-1996, millennials–aka “Generation Y”–are the first generation to have “helicopter parents.” They are also better educated, more tech-savvy, and prefer their workplace hours to be flexible and fun. Because of economic pressures, they have delayed marriage and…
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In the Golden Age of Hollywood no leading lady could hope for a better on-screen “wingwoman” than Eve Arden. A cucumber-cool blonde whose sharp tongue dispensed caustic quips at a Gatling gun pace, Arden was a supporting player mainstay in…
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As Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about 750 years ago, all good things must come to an end. Here at MovieFanFare, the saying means that–for the immediate future–we’re saying “goodbye” to our Monday movie polls as we prepare for the next…
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In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday, we thought we’d look at some of our favorite moms from TV and film…and some not-so-nice ones, too. The first one to come to is the impeccably dressed June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley)…
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