Take Shelter from The Birds
A couple of months ago I hit the point of quarantine where I watched a whole bunch of blockbuster disaster movies. Disaster movies are...
Psycho and Silence of the Lambs
I have been looking forward to a double feature of Psycho (1960) with another great movie forever. I have to admit that I had kind of...
Rebecca, 1940 and 2020
This month Netflix released a new adaptation of the book Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley. This was the second “big screen” adaptation...
Greyhound and Lifeboat
This month I watched the new Tom Hanks movie about a WWII allied naval convoy in the Atlantic that is being terrorized by a German...
Spy Game and Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock had a pretty good sense of the landscape of the just before and just after World War II. His 1940 film not only foresaw...
Watchmen and Comic Book Vigilantes
Superheroes are vigilantes working outside of the law for good, or their interpretation of "good." There are times in film that the...
Hail, Caesar! and Torn Curtain.
Eight or Nine years ago I got a Box Set of Hitchcock movies Universal put together as a Christmas gift and one of the movie I never got...
Catching Up With 2019
Last year was a year for superheroes, the end of the main MCU story, the (disappointing) end to the X-Men universe while Fox Studios...
Rear Window and The Shining
Two of the classic movies about people stuck inside are The Shining and Rear Window. The Shining is about a family hired to work as...
For Your Eyes Only and White Vertigo
This Christmas my two big gifts were the Criterion Olympic Box Set and the James Bond Collection Box Set. As the world is sheltered in...
