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Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh in the film by Orson Welles

‘Touch of Evil’ – Orson Welles on the border on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 03/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star in Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic.

Last chance: Alfred Hitchcock’s original ‘Psycho’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, Mother's Day, Mystery, National Film Registry, Peacock, suspense, SVOD, thriller 11/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

It may seem like cliché now but ‘Psycho’ was the granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho-thrillers and thrilled audiences with its shocking twists and tawdry details.

Kirk Douglas commands ‘The Vikings’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 10/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh costar in this grandly-mounted barbarian fantasy, shot in Technicolor on location in Norway, Germany, and France.

Peter Falk is Lt. Columbo in the iconic detective series

Peter Falk is ‘Columbo’ on Peacock

!Featured, DVD, Free, IMDB TV, Mystery, Peacock, Streaming TV 09/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

“Actually, there is one thing…” Peter Falk created TV’s most unusual–and most entertaining–TV detective in this unconventional, beloved series that flipped the formula.

Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh on the set of the 1960 film 'Psycho' from the documentary by Alexandre O. Philippe

’78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene’ – exploring ‘Psycho’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, horror, Hulu, movies about movies, SVOD, thriller 07/13/2021 Sean Axmaker

The title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017), a documentary on the legendary sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1961 classic Psycho, refers to the 78 camera set-ups and 52 cuts in the three-minute scene, an astounding attention to detail to a brief sequence that shocked American audiences with transgressions suggested but not actually shown on screen. […]

‘Halloween H20: 20 Years Later’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) – The legacy of the horror movie sequel was nicely summed up in Scream by Jaime Kennedy’s film geek character: more bodies, more elaborate deaths, more gore. Director Steve Miner (a veteran of two Friday the 13th sequels), star Jamie Lee Curtis, and company took the high road in […]