Ten Years Later: 2010 Movies
It's another installment of the Hindsight Awards, Ten Years Later. The 2010 year in movies was one where I already had a few favorites...
Forget Pressburger, it's Powell and Hitchcock.
Peeping Tom (1960) is very much from the Hitchcock universe of suspense and the Michael Powell movie was very much an inspiration for the...
Noir: Black and Chrome. Alternate Black and White Versions of New Movies.
This month I dive into a trio of recent movies that all ended up releasing alternate takes of their movies in black and white. All three...
So Orwellian, Kind of Orson Wellesian
Recent news events have led some public figures to call the actions of social media companies “Orwellian” for banning Donald Trump and...
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...
