Cool Horror Gear: Mondo takes on Hitchcock

Posted 13 years ago

Tomorrow on August 13th, Mondo will be celebrating the birthday of one of cinemas most important directors, Alfred Hitchcock, with the release of three new posters for a couple of his most iconic films. First up, you'll see Tomer Hanuka's...

The UnPopular Opinion: Psycho (1998)

Posted 13 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

David Mamet will direct Cate Blanchett in the JFK conspiracy thriller Blackbird

Posted 13 years ago

When you think of Kennedy conspiracy theories and movie directors, you usually think of Oliver Stone. But, another talented filmmaker is helming a JFK project that will attempt to put a new spin on the decades old assassination. David Mamet...

Soundtracks, Soundtracks, Soundtracks: Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, etc..)

Posted 13 years ago

There are many things that make a movie what it is. It all starts with a story (according to what every How-To book on screenwriting tells us), there is the director and his crew, there are the actors, who bust...

The Test of Time: Psycho (1960)

Posted 13 years ago

We all have movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? So…the point of this here column...

Hitchcock’s earliest films set to tour the US

Posted 13 years ago

It’s always great to see the classics make their way back into theaters because as the years go by these films find new fans who never got the chance to see these classic films on the big-screen. Deadline reports that...

These two teasers for A&E’s Bates Motel make it seem like another American Horror Story

Posted 13 years ago

BATES MOTEL, the PYSCHO prequel series airing on A&E next year, is going to focus on the formative years of Norman Bates and how he became the killer we saw in the classic Alfred Hitchcock film. But, what I anticipated...

See Tippi Hedren’s screen test for The Birds and more in these clips from Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (out now)

Posted 14 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock hit Blu-ray in a big way yesterday, with a fifteen film set titled Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection.  Featuring thirteen films never before seen on Blu-ray along with fifteen hours of bonus material and a brand new documentary...