Years ago, Vanity Fair magazine began running a series of articles on film. Perhaps the most popular was “The Film Snob’s Dictionary,” a mini-series that eventually became a small bookIet contained cheerful, mirthfully malicious entries that were both real and humorous. It lampooned the fact that many film (or cinema, but never movie) fans all […]
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20 Great Live-Action Disney Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Walt Disney Pictures. Just read those words and you will have visions of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi, Dumbo, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto and the many other animation classics that will live as long as people see and love motion pictures. But those unforgettable pen and ink creations weren’t all that […]
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20 Great Movies That Make Masterful Use of Color
Back in the 1990’s there was a considerable cultural stir within the film community. Several companies, notably one owned by mogul Ted Turner, were indulging in a process called colorization. Simply put, this process took films created in black and white and added color to them (much as old post cards had once been colored). […]
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20 Famous Actors Who ‘Disappeared’ After Their Prime
Making it to the top is hard but staying there may be even harder. The ridiculous cliché ridden 1967 show biz camp classic Valley of The Dolls is a stupid, foolish film in very many ways but it does get at least one thing right: while making it to the top in “the business” is […]
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The 25 Best Scene-Stealing Movie Performances of All Time
There are no small parts, only small actors, or so the old saying goes. However, it contains a grain of truth. Many actors want to be the star but some are born to have a few moments in the spotlight. Some talents and some roles are just too concentrated to be sustained or tolerated over […]
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20 Great Movies That Had Major Influences On Film Noir
In recent decades both film scholars and fans of vintage cinema have championed two unique film movements. One of these is the so-called “pre-code” school of films, pictures created before the censorship guidelines caused movies to become much more circumspect. The other movement, which has been of great public interest much longer than “pre-code”, would […]