“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” So began director Martin Scorsese’s Mafia classic Goodfellas, which debuted 25 years ago this week. If this fact amuses you, we have plenty more bits of movie trivia for you inside.
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Actor Martin Milner, who died this week at 83, was best known as the star of two hit TV dramas, Route 66 and Adam-12. So what made his one-scene appearance alongside Henry Fonda in the 1955 film Mister Roberts so memorable? Read on to find out.
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Three single women working in the publishing business in New York try to have love, careers, and “The Best of Everything.” Guest writer Leah Williams examines the 1959 20th Century-Fox drama starring Hope Lange, Louis Jourdan, Stephen Boyd and Joan Crawford.
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Jason has assembled a sextet of fine feathered flicks for this installment of Six Pix. From Hitchcock’s The Birds to Shirley Temple in The Blue Bird, check out the ornithological-themed posters and see which one you think best sums up the theme.
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They’ve been depicted in dramas (Norma Rae, On the Waterfront), comedies (Gung Ho, I’m All Right, Jack) and even musicals (The Pajama Game). For Labor Day, we’d like you to vote for which labor union-related movie you think is the best.
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It was 90 years ago this week–long before he became a Broadway star–that The Phantom of the Opera made his screen debut, with the legndary Lon Chaney behind his own make-up as the cellar-dwelling madman. More fascinating film facts are ready to be unmasked inside.
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Baby Boomers know him from such Disney films as That Darn Cat! and The Love Bug, but Dean Jones was adept at both comedy and drama, and a Broadway star, to boot. MovieFanFare remembers the actor, who passed away this week at 84.
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Groundbreaking horror film writer/director Wes Craven died this past weekend from cancer at 76. We look back at the career of the man who “dreamed up” Freddy Krueger and turned “slasher movie” conventions on their ear with Scream.
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The box-office hits Furious 7 with Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, Melissa McCarthy in Spy, and Pitch Perfect 2 with Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson are among the films to look for on home video in September. We’ve got more of this month’s upcoming releases featured inside.
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Depression-era federal agent Montgomery must evacuate a Tennessee town for a dam project in Wild River. Guest writer Mike Perry reviews the 1960 drama directed by Elia Kazan and co-starring Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet.
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