Guest blogger Rick Armstrong writes: As a man crosses the street into a police station, huge 3-D letters fill the screen with the film’s foreboding title. The camera follows along behind the man as he staggers down a hallway to…
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Guest blogger Dave LaBato writes: Gene Wilder is the funniest deaf man I’ve had the pleasure of watching on screen. Of course, Wilder himself is not a deaf person, but he played one in See No Evil, Hear No Evil,…
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Who better to select the five best war films than a recently retired U.S. Army colonel? Migs, our guest blogger, was commissioned in 1987 from the United States Military Academy at West Point and held various commands during a distinguished…
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George Clooney plays a ’50s film star who’s kidnapped in the new movie Hail, Caesar!, but in 1925 crooks plotted to abduct silent screen heroine Mary Pickford and hold her for ransom. Guest writer Patrick Downey shares the remarkable true-crime story.
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A private eye hired to track down a shady businessman’s fugitive mistress makes the potentially fatal mistake of falling for her. Guest writer Barry P. takes a look at Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 film noir gem Out of the Past, with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas.
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Are today’s movies too much of a good thing? Guest writer Leah Williams thinks they can be, and today she looks at how motion picture running times have increased over the decades, and if needlessly long films could be starting to keep audiences away.
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Disgraced British Navy officer James Mason seeks to clear his name in the 1943 espionage thriller They Met in the Dark, co-starring Joyce Howard. Meet guest writer Mike Perry, who shines a light on the noir-flavored drama.
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King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun, with Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck, was a frontier tale of forbidden love. But it also reflected how the coming of the railroad changed the landscape of the Old West and its inhabitants, according to guest writer Emily Rauber.
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Jodie Foster and a pre-Twilight Kristen Stewart are a mother and daughter whose new Manhattan home is under siege by a trio of burglars in Panic Room. Guest writer Steve Bailey unlocks his thoughts on director David Fincher’s 2002 suspense hit.
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“Frankly, my dear…” “They’re here…” Do you have a favorite film quote? Guest writer Joe Elmore has hundreds of them, and he’s happy to share his top 10 with MovieFanFare.
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