The Hunger Games (dir. Gary Ross, 2012) – Should probably keep these thoughts to myself, but this movie disturbed me terribly. Say what you will about reality television being the new…
The Bourne Legacy (dir. Tony Gilroy, 2012) – It rewards fluency in the first three, although not in a deeply satisfying way. It shows itself as something different not just…
Rope (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1948) – It’s usually just chalked up as a “great experiment,” by virtue of the precious few cuts in the film, and the disguising of most…
Sex and the Single Girl (dir. Richard Quine, 1964) – A Tony Curtis marathon was obviously in order, following the old fella’s death recently at the ripe old age of…
Blackmail (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1929) – How can there be so much time for watching and so little for writing? Answer: there’s time for neither, but somehow watching squeezes its…
A Serious Man (dir. Coen Brothers, 2009) – It’s been said that this is a take on the book of Job, but pshaw, I don’t think so. Or, it’s a…
Rear Window is a marvel. It’s called “pure cinema” at times, and unsurprisingly. They say 8½ is the best film about film ever made, but we should lighten the requirements…
Suspicion seems to be passed over most of the time, perhaps considered Alfred Hitchock’s sophomore slump after coming to the States and doing Rebecca. One can perhaps see why, since…
It’s been suggested over here that Mystic River employs a sort of narrative “cheat” not unlike the oft-repeated one in The Sixth Sense. It’s often true that movie watchers don’t…
Unfortunately largely remembered as Hitchcock’s experimentation with 3-D technology, Dial M for Murder is a film that stands strong on its own. Peter Bogdanovich, who seems unable to talk about…
