Classic movie articles featuring movie articles from the 1930s 1940s and 1950s
Everyone by now is familiar with stories of how child actors were mistreated, used up, and then discarded and forgotten by Hollywood over the years. It seems as though the number of young men and women who managed to survive…
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You can’t keep a good vampire down…at least not at the box office, as writer/director Robert Eggers’ sanguinary shocker Nosferatu finished its Christmas week debut with a solid $40 million-plus performance, good for third place overall. That’s not too shabby…
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As the world calls “Cut!” to 2024 and “Action!” to 2025, all of us here at MovieFanFare would like to extend a hearty “Happy New Year!” to our readers. We have lots of plans for the upcoming year, and we…
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Santa’s not the only one compiling a “Nice” list in December. Each year since 1989, the Library of Congress’s National Film Preservation Board has curated a list of up to 25 motion pictures deemed to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically…
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“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” These are the opening lines to Charles Dickens’ timeless holiday tale “A Christmas Carol.” And while quintessential pinchpenny Ebenezer Scrooge is indeed the main character of the…
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Well, it looks as though we avoided the “Y2K” shutdown fears that swept the globe in 1999 (we must have, or else you wouldn’t be reading this now). Yes, the world a quarter-century ago was a simple, more innocent…
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Author’s Note: This is an updating of an article which originally ran on MovieFanFare in September of 2009. In last week’s first half of this two-part retrospective, I told you about the various silent and early animated film versions of…
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Ah, 1974. Remember back a half-century ago? President Richard M. Nixon abruptly resigned in the wake of Watergate; Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented his eponymous cube; and the IMAX movie format made its debut at Expo ’74 in Spokane, the…
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Author’s Note: This is an updating of an article which originally ran on MovieFanFare in September of 2009. They were the most popular children’s books around, with kids eagerly awaiting the release of each new title in the series. Dismissed…
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Last week we took a quick trip in the Wayback Machine to the year 1924 for a peek at what the top 10 films were a century ago, when America was learning to Keep Cool with Coolidge and the cinema…
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