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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A classic Three Stooges routine, the “Maha” sketch, was featured in their 1946 short Three Little Pirates. For the “…And Scene!” Blogathon, we salute what turned out be one of Curly’s funniest–and final–moments with the slapstick trio.
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Wandering “bad boy” Paul Newman woos Joanne Woodward, daughter of Mississippi plantation owner Orson Welles, in The Long, Hot Summer. Guest writer Emily Rauber reviews the steamy 1958 drama and its Cinemascope splendor.
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This week marks the 81st anniversary of James Stewart’s film debut (in, of all things, a comedy short with Shemp Howard!). To honor the beloved actor, we’re reprinting this classic retrospective of Stewart’s Oscar-winning body of work.
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Father’s Day was yesterday, so our belated salute asks for your favorite father/son acting pair (or more). Kirk and Michael Douglas, Jerry and Ben Stiller, plus the assorted Bridges, Carradines and Estevez/Sheens: which clan takes the top spot?
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It was 54 years ago this week that Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn and company set out to destroy an impregnable German fortress in the WWII action classic The Guns of Navarone. More high-caliber Hollywood history awaits inside.
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