Category: Mother’s Day

Alfred Hitchcock’s original ‘Psycho’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, Mother's Day, Mystery, National Film Registry, Peacock, suspense, SVOD, thriller 07/13/202107/13/2021 Sean Axmaker

Psycho (1960) shocked America in 1960. Suburban theatergoers headed to the theaters to see the latest offering from the director of the glamorous and sexy Rear Window and the Technicolor confection North by Northwest. Who expected the droll host of TV’s showcase for suspense, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, to get so down and dirty and tawdry. […]

Joan Crawford stars with Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, and Jack Carson

Last chance: Joan Crawford is ‘Mildred Pierce’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, Mother's Day, SVOD 04/17/202104/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

Is Mildred Pierce (1945) film noir or melodrama? I say why choose? Film noir is almost entirely associated with crime stories and life in the shadows and at night in the city and sure enough Mildred Pierce, based on the novel by James M. Cain, opens with death and darkness and the twilight of the […]