United Artists Mark of the Phoenix was a British heist film Victor mature was in Escort West, the rare film … Continue reading United Artists/AIP Retrospective: 1959

United Artists The Betrayal was a low budget offering from England involving a man seeking to find who sold him … Continue reading UA/AIP Retrospective: 1958

United Artists Drango was a western starring Jeff Chandler The Halliday Brand was another Western this one with Joseph Cotten, … Continue reading United Artists/AIP Retrospective: 1957

United Artists Aan was imported by UA from Bollywood As was the Tiger and the Flame. The Extra Day was … Continue reading United Artists/AIP Retrospective: 1956

United Artists This was a year that shows the changes that were soon going to transform UA once again into … Continue reading United Artists/AIP Retrospective: 1955

William Lundigan, Herbert marshall, and Matha Hyer starred in the sci-fi film Riders to the Stars Personal Affair had Gene … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1954

Lots of B films for 1953, and unlike 1952, no Best Picture nominees in the pack here. But its a … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1953

David Niven was out to try to woo Joan Caufield, a woman who has just authored a book rejecting romance, … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1952

Robert Preston went to England to star in the revenge thriller Cloudburst Thery Were Not Divided was a British war … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1951

the decade began with George Montgomery as Davy Crockett, Indian Scout Gun Crazy is generally regarded as one of the … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1950

Just a Big Simple Girl was a French comedy that has seemingly disappeared without a trace, not even a picture … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1949

Fanny by Moonlight started the year, four years late after its British release and with 17 minutes shaved off. It … Continue reading United artists Retrospective: 1948

1947 opened with another return of Hopalong Cassidy. The Fabulous Dorseys was a loose biopic based on the Dorsey brothers, … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1947

This is a relatively sleepy year outside of the British imports, and there is a reason for that. It was … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1946

With the end of the war came some very delayed British films, ones that had appeared in England up to … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1945

Hopalong Cassidy started the year. Thornton Wilder’s classic book The Bridge of San Luis Ray made its second of three … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1944

Anne Shirley and Carole Landis were in the modelling business in the musical The Powers Girl Paulette Goddard was chasing … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1943

1942 started with another one of Hal Roach’s comedy streamliners Which in turn was followed by another. note that lead … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1942

Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, and George Sanders started 1941 going with a swashbuckler, The Son of Monte Cristo. Adolphe Menjou, … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1941

The Lion has Wings was a propaganda film meant to raise British morale in World War II Laurel and Hardy … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1940

Merle Oberon won the lottery then proceeded to lose it all in Over the Moon, a comedy costarring Rex Harrison. … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1939

Clive Brook was trying to clear his name from card cheating in Action for Slander. Ann Todd had top billing … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1938

Miriam Hopkins and Gertrude Lawrence vied for Sebastian Shaw in the fierce Men are Not Gods, which also gave a … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1937

Le Golem was a monster movie from France. Cary Grant returned to his native England for The Amazing Adventure. Robert … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1936

Ann Harding was the lead in Gallant Lady, playing a woman who hoped to obtain custody of the child she … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1934

Now, lets see here, UA in 1933, we have an Oscar winner this year, careers going into retirement or hiatus … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1933

This was the avation film with Chester Morris that started 1932 off…. Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, and Ina Claire played … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1932

1931 began with John Boles in love in One Heavenly Night. City Light followed, a cinematic masterpiece in every regard. … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1931

The Other was a German crime film. Lummox was a drama from a book by Fanny Hurst. Fannie Brice made … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1930

The Only Way was actually a silent version of A Tale of Two Cities…. the Sea Gull/A Woman of the … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929

Salvation Hunters was the first film directed by Josef von Sternberg. Waking Up the Town is perhaps notable for being … Continue reading United artists Retrospective: 1925

Carnival, although not listed when I first checked, was handled by UA in 1921, but it was so popular it … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1922, 1923, and 1924

United Artists is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, having been founded on February 5, 1919. The company is still … Continue reading United Artists Retrospective: 1919, 1920, and 1921

Well, this is it, the final installment. Thousands of films and it all leads here. Fox became part of Disney … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective; 2019 and Beyond

The number of films sagged in 2018, perhaps in part because of the Disney merger that was impending…. it started … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective; 2018

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike started the year with A United Kingdom, the saga of a marriage facing opposition in … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2017

2016 started with the final installment of DreamWorks’ animated Kung Fu Panda series. Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds served up a … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2016

2015 started with the end of one action series…. Which was then followed by the start of another. An R-rated … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective; 2015

2014 started with a horror film, Devil’s Due. Fox teamed up with Columbia for the all-star The monuments Men, involving … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective; 2014

Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, and Catherine Zeta-Jones started the year with a neo-noir. Bruce Willis returned to his signature role … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective; 2013

Red Tails, about the Tuskegee Airmen, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Terrence Howard, began 2012. Chronicle was a superhero … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2012

Cedar Rapids was the saga of an immature insurance salesman. Big Mommas: Like Father like Son was the last in … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective; 2011

2010 began with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson becoming a Tooth Fairy. Ashley Judd, Billy Crystal, and Julie Andrews co-starred. My … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2010

The year opened with friends Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway at each other’s throats in Bride Wars, after Candise Bergen … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2009

2008 began with the romantic comedy 27 Dresses. Meet the Spartans followed, another spoof of new releases. Jumper was a … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2008

2007 opened with the spoof Epic Movie. This was followed by another comedy Reno 911; Miami The Namesake from Mira … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2007

Grandma’s Boy starting 2006 was going to be shocking for fans of Shirley Jones, Doris Roberts, and Shirley Knight. They … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2006

2005 opened with Jennifer Garner in Elektra, a superhero film. Hide and Seek, a violent thriller, with Robert De Niro, … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2005

2004 opened boldly with the NC-17 rated Bernardo Bertolucci film The Dreamers. This was followed by Kristen Stewart as a … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2004

2003 opened with Just Married, a comedy of errors involving a young couple who ran into all sorts of misadventures. … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2003

2002 had the highest attendence at the movies of any post 1970 movie year, and some of the releases went … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2002

The new millennium started rather inauspiciously with Monkeybone, a dark comedy with Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, and Whoopi Goldberg. Say … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2001

2000 started with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton in the moody The Beach. Fox had big expectations for this that … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 2000

1999 started with Vince Vaughn starting over in A Cool,Dry Place This was followed by Simply Irresistible, a youth oriented … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1999

1998 began with an action thriller, Firestorm. A postmodern spin on Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, now moved from England to … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1998

1997 started with the dark, brooding neonoir, Blood and Wine, a good film with strong work from Jack Nicholson, Michael … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1997

1996 opened with a primate in a hotel in the kiddie film Dunston Checks In. Yes, Faye Dunaway was one … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1996

Well, this is where I came in. My birth year. And also a year that had one element that would … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1995

Sugar Hill dealt with gritty urban living and criminal drug cartels. Wesley Snipes starred in the film that decried what … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1994

Things were extremely bad this year, surprisingly so, given all the quality films at Columbia Tristar, WB, and Universal that … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1993

Shinging Through with Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas was one of those films that must have been made with big … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1992

This is one of Fox’s best later years, just saying…. Unusually for a ’90s year, the biggest hit came right … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1991

The new decade began with a year that saved much of the best things for late in the year….. The … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1990

These were the films that closed the 80s for Fox.  the skateboarding film Gleaming the Cube opened 1989. The Fly … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1989

Also known as the year of a short release slate. Only 12 films, and at least a few of them … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1988

1987 started on a pretty good note with the sinuous suspense film Black Widow, with Debra Winger as an FBI … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1987

Nicholas Cage wanted to be a champion rower in The Boy in Blue Stripper was a documentary involving a competition … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1986

First up in 1985 was Mischief, a look at teenagers in Small-town Ohio in the 1950s. Unlike 1950s teen films … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1985

1984 began with a burlesque, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud with Bud Cort, Carol Kane, Carroll Baker, Dick Shawn, … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1984

Donald Sutherland, John Marley, Jeff Goldblum, and Mare Winningham started 1983 with Threshold, a Canadian sci-fi film Barbara Hershey was … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1983

1982 opened with a look at prehistoric living in Quest for Fire…. Glynnis O’Connor played a woman dealing with illiteracy, … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1982

Things landed with a thud in 1981. There were some hits, and they financed the Best Picture winner overseas, but … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1981

The dawn of the 1980s brought changes to Fox in the form of a new regime and new styles of … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1980

1979 opened on a chilly note (literally) with Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, and Brigitte Fossey in a … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1979

There were only 7 films in 1978, so in this entry, I will be combining both 1977 and 1978. I … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1977 & 1978

Hugo the Hippo was the first fully animated film that Fox had financed. Actually they only distributed it. Vittorio Gassman … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1976

This year includes the only shortcut I ever made in this series. i left out Tarzoon, Shame of the Jungle, … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1975

Maybe the number of films seems a bit thin in 1974, and admittedly some of these films have all but … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1974

A very thin slate for 1973, only 14 films…. and a year later in the decade would have only 7.  … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1973

There were more Fox films in 1972 than there were in most of the rest, if not all of the … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1972

the ultimate year of budget woes. Fox was so much in the hole by now that most of these weren’t … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1971

This is a very strange year. There are several here that are so far in front of the rest of … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1970

Sign of the times. There were only 18 Fox films in 1969, but there were still some very noteworthy ones. … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1969

Well, Doolittle had its impact. For the next few years, Fox was on very shaky ground. The Legend of Custer … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1968

1967 was a critical year for Fox for several reasons, and would have a lasting impact that was felt for … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1967

1966 opened with a western, Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider, with Fess Parker in his famous role. Hammer horror was … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1966

The year began with Dear Brigitte, the best of Jimmy Stewart family comedies of the 60s, and a fine showcase … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1965

There were 25 films brought out by Fox in 1964, 6 more than there were in 1963 to brighten things … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1964

Well, Cleopatra finally made it in 1963, but its impact on budgets was sorely felt. Many Fox releases of 1963 … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1963

Cleopatra really made its talons felt in 1962……There were only 23 releases in 1962, down quite a bit from 1961, … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1962

1961 opened with a musical comedy Swingin’ Along. Susan Hayward worried that husband James Mason was taking too much of … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1961

The 60s dawned with a successful war film Sink the Bismark! Bobbikins dealt with a talking baby with stock tips. … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1960

1959  began with Roger Corman’s I Mobster…. Alaska Package was a little quickie. Clifton Webb was a suspected bigamist in … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1959

1958 started plenty of storm clouds around Fox. Things weren’t so rosy now. Gina Lollobrigida was an opera diva in … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1958

This was the final year in which Fox made a total near their old numbers in the late 30s/early 40s … Continue reading 20th Century fox Retrospective: 1957

1956 was a troubled year for Fox, as it was during this year that Darryl Zanuck, a fixture since the … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1956

1955 began with Richard Burton doing a fine job playing Edwin Booth in the intriguing Prince of Players. John Derek … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1955

The year began with Three Young Texans, a Western love triangle with Keefe Brasselle, Mitzi Gaynor, and Jeffrey Hunter. CinemaScope … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1954

A year of change at Fox began with Mitzi Gaynor in the musical bio The I Don’t Care Girl, in which … Continue reading 20th Century Fox Retrospective: 1953