You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! Meet Walter Garber: the strictest crossing guard in the world.
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
This Week In Film History, 03.13.11
March 18, 1910: An important entry in the nascent horror genre is the Edison Company’s Frankenstein, with stage veteran Charles Ogle as the monster. March 13, 1934: Walt Disney, accepting his prize for The Three Little Pigs, is the first…
Read more →Blade Runner Sequels, Cult Films, Commodity Culture
Guest blogger Chuck Tryon writes: I’ve been fascinated by the response to the news that Alcon Entertainment, best known for bringing us The Blind Side, has secured TV and film rights to Blade Runner, a move that would allow them to do…
Read more →A DVD “Sugar-Charged Saturday Morning Supershow”
Last week, MovieFanFare introduced a poll asking people to vote for their “favortie classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series.” Now, the distinction between “classic” and “modern” can be a tricky one–after all, to those readers 40 and under shows like SuperFriends, Hong Kong Phooey…
Read more →A “Glowing” Review of Murder, He Says
Pollster Fred MacMurray gets mixed up with homicidal hillbillies, glow-in-the-dark grannies, and a hidden fortune in the zany 1945 comedy Murder, He Says, co-starring Helen Walker, Porter Hall and Marjorie Main. Check it out, we says!
Read more →What’s Up, Docs?
Just because a documentary is well-received doesn’t mean you will get a chance to see it—at least in theaters. That’s why the DVD market has proved to be so important in the world of factual films. Consider this year’s Oscar…
Read more →Scary Clown Trivia? You Bet My Life!
How well do you know your scary clown horror movie trivia? Hopefully better than “Grouchy” Irv’s contestants, because they have bet his life on answering correctly…and they’re not doing so well! Grouchy tests their knowledge (and his patience) as he…
Read more →Irene Dunne Overload
Guest blogger Rory B. writes: I shouldn’t have done it but I watched thee Irene Dunne films in three days. I like them in the order I watched. First there was The Awful Truth (1937), a film I’ve already seen five times. The Awful Truth…
Read more →My Favorite Martian…Movies
Quick, now: What planet in our solar system has had the most movies made about it? Okay, obviously the answer is Earth. Coming in a distant second–but still considerably ahead of the other six (sorry, Pluto, you don’t count anymore)–is our…
Read more →Addams vs. Munsters: Where Do You Stand?
An ooky childhood story: One day while hanging out with my best friend looking for something interesting to film with my Super-8 camera, I’d decided it would be fun to take my Evel Knievel doll (excuse me, action figure) and record…
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