Much like how Alfred Hitchcock’s films have not lost their effectiveness through the decades, John Russell Taylor’s “Hitch” (1978, with a 1980 postscript after the
Arthur Conan Doyle writes his last dozen Holmes stories from 1921-27, collected in “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” (1927), as if knowing they will be
As a graphic novel, “The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk” (2007) has proven immensely popular, and for good reason. It’s a great yarn. The story has
“My Bloody Valentine” (2009) – as endemic to 2009 as the original is to 1981 — is a generic, gory slasher movie, but it embraces
Uber-producer Irwin Winkler, when in director mode, might not have the career of Alfred Hitchcock, but he knows how to borrow from him. “The Net”
“Ball of Fire” (1941) combines the “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” fairy tale with noir with slapstick, and it’s worthy of a smile for
“Step Down to Terror” (1958) is Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943) put into a blender with Fifties sitcoms where father knows best …
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