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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2024)

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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2024)

Safe to say that no filmmaker in the history of the medium had a better understanding of his audience than Sir Alfred Hitchcock.  Hitch had us by the throat.  He famously said that he played his audience like a piano, and mercifully, he played tunes worth listening to.  His films were approachable perhaps in the […]

| August 26, 2024
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Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)

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Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)

It’s a team-up that only one wants to be a team-up. Can they ever get along?!

| July 28, 2024
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Death on the Nile (1978)

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Death on the Nile (1978)

Perhaps one of the greatest faults of Agatha Christie is that while her legendary mysteries were crafted with clockwork precision, she was not as adept at writing characters.  The players were always types – the secretary, the dowager, the gum shoe – but they were merely chess pieces to be moved around.  And this, perhaps, […]

| September 29, 1978
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