Jackie Brown and Family Plot
The Family Plot and Jackie Brown are reflections of noir films with their own touches of humor from the great directors Alfred Hitchcock...
Hot Fuzz and To Catch a Thief
This month I watched an old favorite from Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz (2007) and an old movie I had never seen before from Alfred Hitchcock,...
Fantasy Movie Making in the MCU Part 1
Around the time that Stan Lee died Filmstruck posted a short documentary about his relationship with french director Alain Resnais whose...
The Darjeeling Limited and Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (1951) is one of the first movies in this batch that I had not seen before it came up as a movie of the month so I...
Ghost Dog and Rashomon
Recently, I was checking off my list of reviewed Jim Jarmusch movies on Letterboxd and had a little trouble finding a streaming option...
Inception and Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by the subconscious. In the 1940’s books about Freud were on the coffee tables everywhere in Los Angeles....
Twelve Angry Men and Rope
This month we look at two movies that keep the viewer captive in a room to discuss murder and justice mostly in real time. Rope was...
A Serious Man and Vertigo
There's going to be a little change to the Movie of the Month this year. Now instead of being about one movie or a long watch list of...
December: Ocean's Eleven
This month I got into the universe that Steven Soderbergh created as a remake of the 1960 movie Ocean's 11. The 1960 movie centered...
November: Big Hero 6
I figured it would be nice to get light with this month’s movie of the month and there aren’t all that many movies as light, colorful and...
