Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Alfred Hitchcock ’

The scourge of the theatrical movie trailer, Michael Douglas and James Lipton make surprising admissions, and Jean Stapleton RIP this week on the Roundup.
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I finally caught Red Tails this week on HBO. I don’t wish to damn it with faint praise, but the George Lucas-financed Anthony Hemingway-directed story about the first all-black squadron of fighter pilots in WW2 was not as bad as you might expect it to be from the trailers or from Lucas’s involvement. Certainly,...
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Three days later and I’m still stuffed from Thanksgiving, but it only makes it easier and more logical to gorge on movies along with gorging on leftover pie and corn bread stuffing. The cold I came down with this week didn’t help much since I was konking out left and right, but I managed...
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-Firstly, the Barnes and Noble Criterion 50% off sale has been extended a week, to November 26th. We suggest picking up Chungking Express while you still can, as it’s gone out of print and will soon be rare as people hold on to them with a kung fu death grip. There is some confusion...
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I woke up this morning all excited that tonight was the night that Lindsay Lohan made her big comeback in Liz and Dick, but it turns out I’m a week early. It’s not the movie itself I’m excited about, of course. It’s that once the thing has aired all of the awful ads will...
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HBO premiered its Alfred Hitchcock/Tippi Hedron biopic, The Girl, last night in primetime. A co-production with BBC, the film tells the story of the living prison Hedron was kept in by an obsessed Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s. Aside from the diminutive English actor Toby Jones in the role of Hitch, there was very...
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It’s the kind of thing community theater was made for, so support your local black box with a trip back in time.
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It’s kind of hard to get away from the Olympics right now, even for movie writers. The Olympics are, in some ways, more cinematic than movies are. Nerves, last gasp thrills and lots (and lots) of tears. All the things we love about movies. I was shocked this week to read that women and...
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Happy Earth Day. We can still get a few more in before we successfully kill the Earth off I think. Unrelated, the Florida Film Festival comes to a close tonight. This edition has been deemed a success, with films like Renee, Eye of the Hurricane, Turn Me On Dammit, and Monsieur Lazhar are getting...
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Lots to talk about this week, but first, The Hunger Games, because no one else is really talking about it an it could use a bump. Here’s a few spoiler-filled thoughts. Skip to the underlined section if you’re that one dude who hasn’t seen it yet. A few weeks ago I called the book...
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