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Alfred Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, but one thing he never mastered was a consistent sense of proper pacing and movie length. “Under Capricorn”
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Even the horrible things of the past must not be forgotten, lest we repeat them. It’s like Toni Morrison was chosen as a vessel to
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Book nerdery and the Nazis’ nightly bombing of London in World War II would seem to go together like orange juice and pickles. But Madeline
The cycle of life imitating art imitating life comes full circle for director Alan J. Pakula with the capper to his thematic “paranoia trilogy,” “All
Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog” (1927) to get the suspense of Marie Belloc Lowndes 1913 novel “The Lodger.” If