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Basement Songs: 52 Saturday Nights
Last year I began to reevaluate my life (that happens when you turn 40) and the pursuit of the dream I had as a boy. What was it about those movies that captured my
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Psycho (50th Anniversary Edition)
Psycho (Universal, 1960) The legend at the bottom of the cover says it all: “An Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece.” Boasting one of the most legendary scenes ever filmed and decades of the kind of cineastic
Read More »Revival House: “We all go a little mad sometimes …”
I’m a little late jumping on the 50th anniversary of the release of Psycho (which opened June 16th 1960), but I had the opportunity recently to attend a special event with the San Francisco
Read More »Farkakte Film Flashback: Hazy Shade of Winter Edition
Deep in the scrotum-shriveling dead of winter, Pete Chianca resurfaces with a list of some chilly cinematic suggestions
Read More »Farkakte Film Flashback: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” Edition
Thanksgiving is upon us once again, and you know what that means: Dinner, and awkward interaction with little-seen family members. And then dessert. Because let’s face it — without food we might as well
Read More »Blu-ray Review: “North by Northwest” (50th Anniversary Edition)
During its brief lifespan, Blu-ray has been helped along by the usual early adopters, but now that the format has beaten out HD DVD for next-gen dominance, if it’s really going to assert itself
Read More »DVD Review: “Night Train”
Writer-director M. Brian King’s Night Train is a peculiar film. It’s a modern-day suspense thriller in which blood-splattered corpses pile up quickly, but it explicitly references 20th-century classics like John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon
Read More »The Bigger Picture: Gettin’ Hitched
I’ve been watching a lot of Alfred Hitchcock’s work lately. When searching for a new project, I tend to immerse myself in that which I wish to imitate. I have quite a task ahead
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