Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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Psycho
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Read more: PsychoAn early—perhaps, only—highlight in Resident Evil: Code Veronica features a palace sitting below a private residence atop a hill on a southern ocean island facility overrun by the bioengineered monstrosities it helped create. That gothic castle looms in the background, and as you, the player, forge an eventual path toward the perched building, the eerie…
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King Rat (1965)
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Read more: King Rat (1965)In wartime, it is not always the highest ranked individuals that run the show. Oftentimes, like with Ex-PFC Wintergreen and Corporal Milo Minderbinder in Heller’s masterpiece Catch-22, it is the most cunning and resourceful who are in charge. George Segal stars in his best performance ever in writer/director Bryan Forbes’s 1965 adaptation of James Clavell’s…
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The Quiet Man
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Read more: The Quiet ManWayne huffs and puffs about the Irish countryside, piss-drunk and full of rage over not being able to throw Maureen O’Hara down on the bed and have his swaggering way with her.
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Decoy: Featuring Jean Gillie as classic noir’s hardest, greediest and most daring femme fatale
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Read more: Decoy: Featuring Jean Gillie as classic noir’s hardest, greediest and most daring femme fataleAs the take-no-prisoners Margot, Jean Gillie is amazing to watch… tougher than Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, Joan Bennett or even snarling Ann Savage in Detour.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Read more: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)The Manchurian Candidate is one of the most endlessly fascinating paranoid thrillers ever created. Beginning its life as a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, it was adapted into a classic 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, which was subsequently taken out of circulation for 24 years after the assassination of JFK. Despite this quarter of…
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Ruthless (1948)
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Read more: Ruthless (1948)Bam Margera wept.
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Breaker Morant
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Read more: Breaker Morant‘Military justice’ about says it all.
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A Face In The Crowd (1957)
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Read more: A Face In The Crowd (1957)A Face In The Crowd made me sick. I hated everything about it. I wanted to reach through the flatscreen and punch Andy Griffith’s grinning mug. Why? Because every minute of this movie reminded me of our sitting Idiot In Chief, Donald Trump. This movie was made in 1957 and was as white as Wonder…
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Duel In The Sun (1946)
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Read more: Duel In The Sun (1946)David O. Selznick wanted another big blockbuster like Gone With the Wind. He had room for plenty more Oscars on the ego shelf where his awards were available for all to ”ooh and aah” and offer praise like, ”You did a hell of a job on that one, Mister Selznick”. There for all to see,…
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Nosferatu (1922)
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Read more: Nosferatu (1922)It has now been a century since the release of the first real vampire movie, F.W. Murnau’s somewhat loose adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. In Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the names of characters were changed, along with many plot details, and still there was a lawsuit brought by Stoker’s heirs, and a…