Thelma Ritter received six Academy Award nominations over a 13-year period but never took home the golden statue. For the Oscar Snubs Blogathon, we compare the beloved character actress’s performances with the ones that beat her out.
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A superhero film is only as good as its supervillain, and 1966’s Batman had four memorable foes. As part of the Great Villain Blogathon, we shine the Bat-Signal on the menace of the Penguin (Burgess Meredith), Riddler (Frank Gorshin), Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) and Joker (Cesar Romero).
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Ho, ho, ho, film buffs! It’s Christmastime, and this year MovieFanFare and Six Pix are celebrating the season with a Santa-filled selection of posters spotlighting St. Nicholas. Which cinematic Kris Kringle depiction do you think is the most iconic?
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With such films as Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal Pictures set the tone for 1930s horror cinema, but other studios sometimes matched–or beat–them in scares. Read about Island of Lost Souls, Mad Love and eight more shock classics.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s US theatrical debut in September of 1976 wasn’t quite what 20th Century-Fox hoped for. Okay, let’s be Frank (no pun intended); the film tanked. Its sole bright spot was at Los Angeles’ UA Westwood Theater,…
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Edward G. Robinson starred as the 19th-century German researcher who fought stigma and skeptics as he sought a cure for syphilis in Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet. For the Movie Scientist Blogathon, we review the 1940 Warner Bros. biodrama.
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One of the most thankless acting jobs in movies must have been as one of Charlie Chan’s would-be detective offspring. After all, how many ways can an performer say “Gee whiz, pop!”? For the venerable Keye Luke, however, playing “number-one…
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Would having a Best Comedy/Musical category enhance or dilute the Oscars? MovieFanFare looks at the idea of splitting the Best Picture Academy Award in two and offers an alternate history of which films would have won from 1928 to the present. .
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“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” It’s an oft-repeated quote that over the years has been attributed–incorrectly–to both 19th-century Shakespearean stage star Edmund Kean and Hollywood character actor Edmund Gwenn, among others. Gwenn appears to have been the closest, his…
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Did you know director John Huston placed a reference to one of Humphrey Bogart’s worst films in The Maltese Falcon? See what he did inside.
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