On a Hitchcock kick (Movie review): Being a costume drama, this slice of Australian history is rare among his catalog. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it good.
On a Hitchcock kick (Movie review): Though hurt by a lack of a vibrant print, this music-driven film has historical and even some romantic value.
Book club book report: The evils of Slavery become less abstract in Morrison’s psychologically rich Great American Novel.
Fall movie preview: Fans of horror, superheroes and biopics especially have a lot to look forward to this autumn.
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.
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.
On a Hitchcock kick (Movie review): Still, this Jack Palance-starrer takes enough of a different angle from Hitchcock’s “The Lodger” to be worth a peek.
Movie review: Takashi Yamazaki’s character-driven prequel to 1954’s “Godzilla” illustrates the changing Japanese culture after WWII.
On a Hitchcock kick (Movie review): One year before “Rebecca,” Hitchcock delivers a much lesser adaptation of a Du Maurier novel.
Movie review: Nolan’s film is so intent to avoid the obvious that it goes deep into the shadows of political maneuverings.