You Can’t Take it With You
You Can’t Take It with You is a movie, like many Oscar winning films, is a movie I feel like I should like more than I actually do. I like […]
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The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth, quite simply put, is far from the greatest movie on Earth. While the film definitely deserves some credit for the spectacle it provides, that’s really […]
AFI Top 100 Discussion: Rear Window
Welcome back, as promised, to our recently resurrected series of discussions of the films on AFI’s Top 100 list (10th anniversary edition). Today we’re focusing on Hitchcock’s Rear Window, a […]
The Man Who Knew Too Much
In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Hitchcock remakes his own film. I haven’t seen the original, but this remake is pretty darn good. While it doesn’t have the deep […]
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Apparently today is Alfred Hitchcock Day! I have no idea why (his birthday’s in August) but I don’t care! Any excuse to geek out over Sir Alfred is fine by […]
The Hitchcock Marathon: Phase One Wrap-Up
The suspense is going to subside around here somewhat in the coming weeks, or at least the Alfred Hitchcock created type. We have come to the end of the first […]
Rear Window
Rear Window is a really simple story when you think about it, a man spying on the neighbors decides to become a detective when he thinks he’s observed a crime. […]
Rope
Rope is one of Hitchcock’s films that focuses on the perfect murder, but in this case it’s the perpetrators that are perfect and not necessarily the method. These characters are […]
Vertigo
I think I literally just watched this whole film without breathing once. Obviously false, but the point is that Hitchcock’s Vertigo is very suspenseful. It would be, being a Hitchcock film, but […]
The Soul of the Plot 