Let your voice be heard in our movie polls. Every week a new poll lets readers vote for their favorite film, actor, genre or other topic.
Today is December 1st, 2025, which means it’s Bette Midler’s 80th birthday (That’s right, the Divine Miss M is now the Divine Miss LXXX). Born in 1945 to a Jewish family in Honolulu, Midler briefly studied drama at the…
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Decades before Dwayne Johnson, another “Rock” ruled the Hollywood box office. Today marks the 100th birthday of perennially popular leading man Rock Hudson. Born Roy Scherer, Jr. on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, he later took the surname…
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With apologies to Bon Jovi, this week’s MovieFanFare poll celebrates “November Rains.” Today is the anniversary of British-born actor Claude Rains’ birth. A four-time Academy Award nominee, William Claude Rains was born in London in 1889, one of 12 children…
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In a 1976 M*A*S*H episode, Hawkeye talked about the familiarity of American life during the Great Depression. “You knew where you stood in those days,” he says. “Franklin Roosevelt was always president, Joe Louis was always the champ, and Paul…
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Sure, Bela Lugosi is easily the most famous movie Dracula, but Christopher Lee put his own menacing mark on the role. Beginning with 1958’s Dracula (known in the U.S. as Horror of Dracula), the London-born actor portrayed Bram Stoker’s…
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“Sometimes they’re faithful childhood companions, sometimes they’re the stuff of youthful nightmares, and often they wind up being both.” This is how I began a 2014 MovieFanFare article spotlighting the most frightening dolls, dummies, and puppets in cinema. Since…
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Since her screen debut 55 years ago in Lovers and Other Strangers, Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton quickly became an audience favorite. She delighted moviegoers with her quirky style and performances ranging from the comedic (Baby Boom, Something’s Gotta Give)…
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Let’s face it. Certain movie directors were/are horror specialists. Some set the tone for fright cinema (Tod Browning) or supplied shocks on shoestring budgets (Roger Corman). Some redefined the tropes of zombie flicks (George Romero). And some are busy…
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To conclude MovieFanFare’s Golden Anniversary salute to the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this week’s poll offers you a chance to vote for which RHPS character is your favorite. Are you a devotee of “absolute pleasure” and…
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The entertainment world is still mourning the passing last week of award-winning actor, director, and producer Robert Redford at 89. With a career on the stage, TV, and film which strecthed from his 1959 Broadway debut to a cameo…
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