Starring: Janet Leigh, Antony Perkins
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
But is it any good?
What can I say about Psycho that hasn’t already been said a million times? I even read a book once […]
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot: A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
But is it any good?
So THAT’s where the much-spoofed man-being-chased-by-a-plane scene comes from. There is […]
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Plot: Clarice Starling, a young FBI agent, is assigned to help find a missing woman, and save her from a psychopathic killer with the help of another killer.
But is it any good?
It’s been 15 years and still tha lambs haven’t stopped screaming. It’s certainly not a family movie, […]
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot: Complex story about a San Francisco detective and his psychological troubles with fear of heights and obsession over a woman.
But is it any good?
Some people insist that Vertigo improves with multiple viewings, but personally I find that each one lessens the impact. Once you’ve seen it you […]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Plot:
But is it any good?
It’s a bit weird that I’ve already reviewed the sequel (which was at #85) and I basically summarised my feelings then about the first three films in the Alien…heptology, is it now?
While I still prefer the sequel Aliens, Alien was a […]
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Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Darryl Hannah
Directed by: Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down…)
Plot: In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create Replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Rick Deckard is […]
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Starring: Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Patricia Hitchcock (Hitch’s daughter)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Plot An upwardly-mobile young man meets a guy on a train, who suggests they “swap” murders - one wife, one father. Yuppie thinks the man is joking. He isn’t. Things get interesting.
But is it any good?
I love Hitchcock’s other big films like […]
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Starring: a serious Bruce Willis, a wise-beyond-his-years Haley Joel Osment, and a harrassed-looking Toni Collette
Director: M Night Shyamalan (The Village, Signs)
Plot: Boy sees dead people. Psychiatrist tries to help and twist ensues.
But is it any good?
Sixth Sense is remembered mostly for the then-11-year-old Osment’s knockout performance, a massive (and clever) plot twist which was […]
