“The 39 Steps” (1935) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s foundational works, a crisp, mildly diverting story about an innocent man on the run. It’s limited
Watching Alfred Hitchcock films – especially his classics – for this blog series is generally a pleasure, but with “The Birds” (1963) it becomes homework.
As with the “Harry Potter” series, the Cormoran Strike novels keep getting bigger as they go along. The fourth book from Robert Galbraith (the alias
“To Catch a Thief” (1955) is so gorgeous to look at, and Cary Grant is so suave and Grace Kelly so elegant, that it actually
In her acknowledgements, J.K. Rowling says “Career of Evil” (2015) was one of her most fun books to write. But ironically, it is her grimmest
In the “Harry Potter” series, J.K. Rowling was known for her imagination. In the “Cormoran Strike” mystery series, she writes what she knows, under the
Adam Robitel, who went on to direct the best “Insidious” film – 2018’s “The Last Key” – made his mark with a decidedly above-average found-footage
Corpses and autopsies are unsettling to the layperson, but “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” (2016) puts us at ease in the beginning. If there’s such
After the Christopher Reeve “Rear Window” (1998) dug into the daily life of a quadriplegic, the 1954 Hitchcock classic further showed its flexibility as a
When doing Frightening Friday reviews, there’s always a danger that I’ll come across something too disturbing even for me, who generally finds cinematic horror to