It may seem like cliché now but ‘Psycho’ was the granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho-thrillers and shocked audiences with its shocking twists and tawdry details.
Tag: Martin Balsam
‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’ – The great subway heist on Amazon Prime Video
The original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) hasn’t the credentials of Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection but this ingenious crime caper / hostage drama is one of the great New York crime films of the 1970s. Walter Matthau is the everyman head of the transit police who takes charge of […]
Paul Newman in ‘Hombre’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime
Hombre (1967), adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard, plays as a ruthless, revisionist take on Stagecoach. Paul Newman is the blue eyed “savage,” a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, who has chosen to go native rather than live in the lies and corruption of […]