The Birds (1963) Analysis: A rich San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) and a criminal lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) share a brief moment of playful and flirtatious disagreement at a…
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Ten Movies With A Surprising Second Half: After watching the trailer, the promos, and reading the synopsis, you tend to get a feel for what a movie is going to be like.…
Take A Walk Through Oscar History! As we gear up for the awards season, we thought it’d be a great chance to revisit all the “Best Picture” Academy Award winners ever, dating…
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) introduced one of the most iconic characters of Cinema in the form of Travis Bickle, played brilliantly by the great Robert De Niro. An alienated anti-hero for…
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) is now considered the greatest film of all time according to the critics that voted in the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound poll. The survey, which…
Hitchcock and his Emotional Minefield: In his autobiography Gama no Abura, Akira Kurosawa in an attempt to explain the meaning of his pièce de résistance, Rashomon, says “If you focus on the…
