Agnes Moorehead was truly one of the best. She was a marvelous actress who covered every field of entertainment from performing in over one hundred films, doing dozens of radio programs, taking on numerous television work and acting in theater,…
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“Ralph Breaks the Internet,” a 30th Anniversary Edition of “The Little Mermaid,” and More New Releases!
Just because the Oscars are over doesn’t mean that the magic of Hollywood isn’t still in the air. Just check out this week’s new releases for proof of this! Two Disney favorites kick things off, followed by several star-packed Warner…
Read more →Do You Think “Green Book” Should Have Won Best Picture?
The biggest news from the entertainment world right now is how Green Book beat out such favorites as Black Panther and A Star Is Born to win Best Picture at last night’s Academy Awards ceremonies. It was a controversial win…
Read more →Movie Trailer of the Day: Funny Face
Astaire. Hepburn. Dolen. They’re all gone now, but their work still lives on in the hearts of classic film lovers. The beloved Funny Face stars Fred Astaire (reprising his role from the 1927 stage musical) as fashion photographer Dick Avery…
Read more →“Backbeat” Explores the Birth of the Beatles
With the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, audiences have once again discovered the magic of the rock biopic. But you may not have realized that there is a motion picture that chronicles the early days of the greatest musical act of…
Read more →“The Guns of Navarone” Should Have Been An Oscar Favorite
1961. It was the most important year in history: John F. Kennedy became the President of the United States! The Beatles played their first gig! The failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba began! Ernie Davis became the first African-American…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Royal Wedding
In the 1951 Stanley Donen-directed musical Royal Wedding, Fred Astaire and Jane Powell are a brother/sister dance team who travel to England to perform during the nuptials of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip and manage to each find love along…
Read more →Check Out MovieFanFare’s Stanley Donen Archives
As we continue to remember the life of iconic director Stanley Donen, we wanted to encourage you to take a few moments and peruse the MovieFanFare archives to read some articles that illustrate how unforgettable his films are. Although written…
Read more →“In the Heat of the Night” Is Now Available via the Criterion Collection
On this day where we celebrate Hollywood’s greatest, let us look back at a true great, the Best Picture-winning In the Heat of the Night. This groundbreaking 1967 drama based on John Ball’s novel stars Sidney Poitier as Philadelphia homicide…
Read more →When Pee-Wee Herman Met Robocop at the Oscars
With the 2019 Academy Awards mere hours away, we thought we’d take a look back at one of the strangest team-ups in Oscar history: When Pee-Wee Herman met Robocop during the 1988 ceremony. Yeah, we don’t know what this was…
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