Jeff Bridges and John Huston star in William Richert’s cult movie, the maddest and most entertaining of Kennedy conspiracy thrillers.
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‘Something Wild’ – a 1962 rediscovery on Criterion Channel
Not to be confused with the Jonathan Demme screwball comedy/thriller by the same name, the 1962 Something Wild is an unusually frank and sensitive drama about a teenage girl recovering from rape. The film opens on the assault, a non-explicit scene that communicates both the violence of the rape and the terrible sense of violation […]
‘The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre’ on Amazon Prime
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) gave Roger Corman, the director-producer who earned the nickname “King of the Bs,” the biggest budget of his career to date. After more than 40 films, most of them for the budget-challenged AIP, he was hired by 20th Century Fox and given the resources of their studio, casting department, […]
‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’: The master of small screen suspense on Netflix and Hulu
“Good eeeeevening.” The master of suspense turned himself into an unlikely media icon when he spoofed his image to play host of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, an otherwise dark half-hour anthology series of mystery, suspense, and grim retribution with an often wicked streak. But more than just host, Hitchcock directed a number of episodes of the […]