Here, for example — some tough calls: The Artist, an Oscar nominee for best picture, slips in some of composer Bernard Herrmann’s highly recognizable music from Vertigo (1958), the Alfred Hitchcock thriller that starred Kim Novak. Happy birthday. The...

De Palma intended when he wrote the script, and in this form it's the way that works best. While many have pointed to "Raising Cain" as an unheralded De Palma masterpiece that ranks alongside works like "The Untouchables" and "Blow Out," others have...

Another choreographed a sold-out tour for Madonna and music videos for Michael Jackson. Then there are the analytical chemist, the former rodeo cowboy who took falls for Frank Sinatra, the longtime assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock, and the...

Otherwise the film would have been added to the list of Hitchcock's second tier work. The new adaptation will be penned by Veena Sud, who is currently executive producer and showrunner of the critically acclaimed AMC series, The Killing. Of course none...

IT COULD HAVE LOOKED: A mock up of Alfred Hitchcock with a KitKat bar Thousands of people are faced with a tax rise – after a police boss used a KitKat to win an increase in his force’s funding. Bedfordshire Police Chief Constable Alfred Hitchcock held...

"Women were asked to forget what a sensation Julie Christie had created last year in a miniskirt and dress in long gowns. Men were reminded that this was a white-tie affair and that turtleneck sweaters, beads, beards and unkempt hair were frowned upon."

Hawks in the 40s; recreated by Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg 30 years later; re-imagined for today's multiplexes by Johnny Depp and someone else. Close, but no mynah. This is film-noir territory: Bodega Bay, just an hour's drive north of San...

Who would have imagined how much worse this franchise could get? Despite all evidence to the contrary, someone still thinks that giving Roland Emmerich money is a good idea… This was a lot better when they called it Kick-Ass. Again, this isn’t strictly...

Theatre tweets to The 39 Steps. Newports Falcon is crowing that its the first area theater company to incorporate tweet seats at performances of the Alfred Hitchcock-inspired romp. From the New York Times calling Twitter at the theater the unsavory...

MGM Limited Edition Collection continues to roll out little known films and is a big hit. It's a good cast of character actors playing some awfully strange people, and it has a talented director in Robert Stevens (44 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock...

And the Master of Suspense himself would have been proud of the fact that even after collecting all the clues, many disagree

Academic Decathlon team "Puns are the highest form of literature." Go Texans." Official hype-man of the Flour Bluff Academic Decathlon team "Puns are the highest form of literature." I can check out each

Spellbound (****1/2) Not rated. 118 minutes. Notorious (****) Not rated. 102 minutes. Fox/MGM gives Blu-ray debuts to three Alfred Hitchcock classics, looking better than ever and even filled with extras. In the Oscar-winning best picture Rebecca,...

Fincher mindbender “Se7en.” “The titles can do more than just setting up people’s names.” Like many others in his field, Cooper subscribes to the philosophy popularized by Saul Bass, who almost single-handedly created the art of main title design in the...

"Chahine is my mentor. He introduced me to the big world of films and, through him, I found out about directors like Elia Kazan, Ingmar Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock". Born in 1970, Ahmed Youssef graduated from the faculty of commerce, Cairo University...

Although Gael Garcia Bernal is a talented actor whose films are generally well received critically, his joining this project still doesn't quite overcome the handicap of it being a Zorro story... in the future. It was just last week that DreamWorks...

Argento on the set of "Mother of Tears: The Third Mother." (Franco Bellomo) He’s been called Italy’s answer to Alfred Hitchcock, but horror master Dario Argento exists in a baroque and brutal world entirely his own. This weekend, the seventh Los Angeles...

Alfred who, you say? Among many supposed film experts, Hitchcock was regarded as a master of suspense. To us, he's a poor man's Wynorski, who, as everyone knows, directed such classics as "Busty Cops 2" and "Cheerleader Massacre." Hitchcock only wished...

Witherspoon, a gifted comedic actress who should know better, plays a lovesick firecracker who’s better at organizing consumer test groups than keeping a man; one day, while perusing through some Alfred Hitchcock DVDs at the video store (don’t ask),...