Casey's Elegant Musings (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
[ click for a larger view. ] If there is one thing that I love and never tire of, it’s the vintage updo. Truth be told, I wear my hair up in some configuration the majority of days; it’s just easier to have it out of the way (not to mention cooler not to have it [...]
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps The film that launched Hitchcock's career Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the...
Travel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By Alexander Burns Motion pictures entertainment at home is becoming easier and easier. For now you can download, first-rate motion pictures straight to your own computer and right in the luxury of your own home. It is the easiest and most economical way until now to obtain films and it also presents the advantage of every time being able to get the exact motion picture that you are looking for. Trading...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, John Buchan Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie Funny, thrilling, and sexy, Hitchcock’s prototypical wrong-man thriller - in which a Canadian, living and working in London, is wrongly implicated in the murder of a secret...
Feeling Listless (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Film There’s a wonderful moment in the lifelong interview between Truffaut and Hitchcock in which the young director points out to his hero that he always tells the same story. And it’s true – nearly every Hitchcock film is about mistaken identity of one form or another most often with someone being accused of a crime they did not commit, usually murder and often the hero is aided...
Ken's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Sometimes it comes as a surprise to realize that things we’d been thinking of as completely different are actually quite similar. In films we are used to this sort of revelation. After all, students of the films of Alfred Hitchcock have realized for years that most of his thrillers are actually somewhat disguised [...]
The Business Blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
By David Golden The following paragraphs contain some nice movie reviews. Here are some ways to find movie download sites. A good movie download search would use phrases such as "Download Movies Online For Free", "Full Movie Downloads", and "New Movie Rental". Slaughter's Big Ripoff: A murderer is still playing games with the Mob in this dull action film. McMahon gives...
Travel (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
By David Golden The list below has some good movie reviews. In this paragraph I will give you some search terms to reach movie down load sites. A good starting point might be "DVD Movie Downloads", after that try "Movies And Download" or "Top DVD Movie Rentals". Slaughter's Big Ripoff: A murderer is still playing games with the Mob in this dull action film. McMahon gives...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Legit Reviews: The belly laughs of Patrick Barlow's live adaptation are positively restorative.
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
I just caught the last few minutes of the 1952 A Prisoner of Zenda starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. It’s a shot-for-shot remake in Technicolor of the 1937 black and white classic with Ronald Coleman and Madeleine Carroll. I’m not sure what you can say about it other than Stewart Granger is [...]
All About My Movies (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Didn't see anywhere near as many films as I wanted to due to having work, and any spare time I did have was spent watch episodes of Sex and the City (am faintly addicted to New York right now), so, yup. Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936) Rather underwhelming Hitchcock outfit in which an unlikely motley crew of John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll are chosen as those to kill a foreign...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
If you're looking for long hours of TV enjoyment today, try TCM's marathon of Alfred Hitchcock films. As I write this, "Rebecca" is screening. The 1940 drama, with Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson at their best, is the only Hitchcock...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
That's funny," says the stranger at the bus stop in the desert of Bakersfield, California. "What?" asks Roger Thornhill, the ad man on the run from spies and the police. "That plane's dustin' crops," says the stranger, "where there ain't no crops."
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
Or, HONEY I BLEW UP THE KID. Hitchcock’s SABOTAGE, based on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (not to be confused with Hitchcock’s SECRET AGENT, or with Hitchcock’s SABOTEUR for that matter) features a terrorist bomb, intended for the London Underground, exploding on a double-decker bus. Ironically, this bizarre foreshadowing of the 7/7 bombings would have been [...]
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
I had strange, dual memories of Hitchcock’s SECRET AGENT, the third film in what we may call his classic thriller sextet. I remembered it as both good and not good. Watching it again with analysis in mind, I saw it as largely good, with a not-so-good ending. It’s probably the most neglected of the sextet, [...]
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