du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ (1938) a slower burn than the film
On a Hitchcock kick (Book review): Hitchcock’s faithfulness limits surprises for those tackling the novel afterward, but it has one key difference.
Author: John Hansen
du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ (1938) a slower burn than the film
‘Last Bookshop in London’ (2021) blends love of books with WWII
Book club book report: In a young-adult style, Madeline Martin communicates the horrors of the Blitz to folks who’d rather curl up with a good novel.
2024: A horror ‘Oddity’ – Irish film is year’s best so far
Movie review: Writer-director Damian McCarthy masterfully crafts a character-driven supernatural whodunit at a refurbished Irish manor.
Horror-thriller ‘Longlegs’ has loads of style, not enough story
Movie review: The latest nutso performance by Nicolas Cage is in service of a moody horror-thriller where the story pieces don’t fit.
Hammett’s ‘The Glass Key’ (1931) digs into city political games
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Though unavoidably a complex subject, Hammett and his most unethical detective make government corruption accessible.
‘Shining Girls’ (2022): Make it make sense
Throwback Thursday (TV review): A shaky portrayal of a newspaper and even shakier time-travel logistics undercut nice design and good acting.
‘All the President’s Men’ (1976) grandly caps Pakula’s ‘paranoia trilogy’
The ‘paranoia trilogy’ (Movie review): But it’s not paranoia if it really happened, and that’s the case in one of the all-time best non-fictional accounts of newspaper reporting.
‘Immaculate’ conceives shocking gore horror
Movie review: Amid the trappings of just another religious scare flick comes an unflinching anti-religion commentary on abortion.
‘The Parallax View’ (1974) a timelessly chilling conspiracy noir
The ‘paranoia trilogy’ (Movie review): Though very Seventies in its style, Alan J. Pakula’s gem resonates as a peek into shadowy string-pulling.
‘Klute’ (1971) a grimy classic of Seventies noir
The ‘paranoia trilogy’ (Movie review): Rightly known for launching a new decade of noir style, Alan J. Pakula’s masterpiece is even more impressive as a romance.