Alfred Hitchcock’s 53rd and final film Family Plot, made in 1976, is a deliciously playful, witty farewell. Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern star as a phoney psychic and her cab driver boyfriend who encounter serial kidnappers […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 spy thriller Topaz is one of his least interesting films, despite being based Leon Uris’s top bestselling novel. But it remains entirely watchable thanks some fine performances and a few typical Hitchcock […]
In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]
Director Stephen Frears’s 1985 heart-warmer raises the spirits. It stars future double-Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who first captured the attention on screen here as Johnny, a gay, reformed racist punk. The Beautiful Laundrette of the title is […]
This 1931 Alfred Hitchcock early sound film is surprisingly obvious, thin and conservative-minded, so it is a bit of a bad surprise from this director. It plays like a Victorian melodrama with a moral and […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s second film from 1926 enjoys unenviable status as one of silent cinema’s most famous missing movies and one of the most searched-for films in history. Indeed, it’s infamous now as the only Hitchcock […]
Matthew Miele’s extravagantly luxurious documentary is the last word on the Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman, looking behind the scenes and gathering a huge number of interviews from an incredible array of fashion designers, style icons and celebrities. Everybody […]
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