Right in the kisser: Tell us your favorite movie mouth-to-mouth
This comes to us from Movieline: Apparently today is International Kissing Day, a global extension of the quasi-holiday founded in the UK before spreading its germy brand to foreign shores. We’re all...
View ArticleShould they remake Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’?
It’s all academic, really, because they’re already going through with this (and the “they” is DreamWorks and Working Title Pictures). But what do you think of the plan to redo the legendary director’s...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson will be stabbed to death in a shower
In a movie, people. In a movie. I have no psychic powers, just access to Hollywood press releases. The actress is set to appear as Janet Leigh (Picture that: Scarlett Johansson as Jamie Lee Curtis’...
View ArticleR.I.P. Andrew Sarris, a ‘Psycho”s best friend
A day after Roger Ebert turned 70, another widely influential film critic has died at the age of 83. Andrew Sarris, whose New York City-based work included stays at New York Bulletin, the Village Voice...
View Article‘Citizen Kane’ no longer greatest movie of all time
So sayeth Sight & Sound. The venerable movie magazine put out by the British Film Institute just released its once-a-decade ranking of the top 50 best films ever and the Orson Welles masterpiece...
View ArticleEverything’s coming up Hitchcock – vote for his best film
Today would have been the never Oscar-honored (save an honorary one) British film director’s 113th birthday and he’s having a good/bad year. Just a couple weeks ago, Sight & Sound magazine ranked...
View ArticleGiveaway: Tell us your favorite Danny Elfman score, favorite Hitchcock movie,...
It’s like the holidays up in this movies blog, what with the amount of movie-related items we’re giving away to our loyal readers. A 50 years of James Bond retrospective book. A gift box of flash cards...
View ArticleForget Kanye vs. whoever it is this week, they’ve got nothing on Joan and Olivia
In this day of manufactured dust-ups between reality “stars” and East/West schisms in the rap world, there is a pop culture feud that has dwarfed them all for more than 70 years. It’s the seething...
View ArticleApril 2015 Movie Milestones
April is not known for being a prime release month for award-winning or blockbuster movies, but there are several notable ones that are celebrating milestone anniversaries in 2015. Very few of you have...
View ArticleGet ‘Vertigo’ again this week; Hitch’s classic celebrates 60 with screenings
It seems like Vertigo is the classic film most often re-released nationwide in one or two-night special events, save for probably Casablanca and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I caught it again for the...
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