In Hitchcock’s eyes, period epics like Cleopatra and Ben-Hur required “just quantities of people and scenery,” and took ...

There are some film directors who are truly iconic. In fact, they are such a staple in entertainment history and culture that their last names alone are instantly recognizable. Scorsese. Nolan.

From his early 1936 British espionage thriller, Sabotage, based on Joseph Conrad 's novel, The Secret Agent, to his ...

Only it's not the first odd thing that Charlie notices about her uncle. He takes a page out of her father's newspaper before ...

There’s plenty of stuff to watch on Netflix, but movie-watchers interested in films made before 1990 or so might be better-advised to check out just about any other streaming service out there, ...

During the 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock released a slew of defining thrillers, including Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

Slashers aren’t my personal favorite sub-genre—they’re high up there—but I do consider them to be perhaps the most significant of the horror family for one particular reason…at one point or another, ...

Westport Country Playhouse’s season-opening “The 39 Steps” is a mad dash through a once-famous film thriller. Patrick Barlow’s high energy and comical stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 movie ...

In the 44 years since his death in 1980, Alfred Hitchcock has become a cinematic cottage industry, with almost as many movies ABOUT the director as movies made BY him. (More if you count the entire ...