Before he turned his attention to politics, Ronald Reagan had a successful 25-year Hollywood career. This week MovieFanFare salutes the 40th U.S. president and asks for your vote for “The Gipper’s” top big-screen turn.
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After years of playing heroes and lawmen, Ronald Reagan made his final screen appearance as a hard-hearted crime boss in Don Siegel’s The Killers, which opened 51 years ago this week. Here we go again with more fascinating film facts inside.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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