We wind up our coverage of the new season BATES MOTEL talking with Freddie Highmore. So is Norman Bates really a bad guy, or just misunderstood and how much of Freddie is really in that character? Plus he may be the real super villain of March Madness. Why does everyone hate Christian Lattener? http://serve.castfire.com/audio/2453732/comicmix_2015-03-20-143532.64.mp3 In…
It’s a sure sign that spring is on the way when the doors open for a new season of BATES MOTEL. Show runners Carlton Cuse and Kerry Eihern, along with the main momma herself, Vera Farmiga, lay out what is coming up this year. Plus remember Trapper Tice and the boys from AIMS? They’ve decided to…
The great innovators and popular entertainers of previous generations often fade from sight from they retire or die. A new generation discovers them afresh, either on their own, or someone has done some digging. In the case of the famed director Alfred Hitchcock, he has spawned a cottage industry with recent biographies and films. Hitchcock,…
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Rear Window (1954). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, from the story by Cornell Woolrich. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter. 112 minutes. *** 1/2 Rear Window (1998). Directed by Jeff Bleckner. Screenplay by Larry Gross and Eric Overmyer, from the story…
Alfred Hitchcock is today best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to Universal and Warner Bros. steady stream of restored re-releases on Blu-ray but recently, 20th Century Home Entertainment reminded us that the master director wasn’t exactly idle in the years before. A trio of his 1940s works – Notorious, Spellbound,…
USA Network’s PSYCH is ending the season with a bang – or actually a scream. Series star JAMES RODAY directed and co-wrote a special tribute to Hitchcock and he takes us behind the scenes right here – plus Wondercon gets a DOCTOR WHO premiere, we get a RED SKULL and you will get comics on…
First, we saw all the ads that said Stan was back. (We all knew that he’d never gone away.) Then Stan Lee stopped by ComicMix and gave us little hints as to his new projects. He even showed up on The Big Bang Theory this week. But now we know the real reason for his…
Thrillers today are filled with fast cuts, pounding music, poor excuses for plotting and characterization, and seem designed to do nothing more than collect your cash and deliver the same old. You usually see every twist and turn coming and are rarely surprised. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock, at the height of his moviemaking career, unleashed…
Paramount Pictures ends its tour of the 1950s, for now anyway, with the Centennial Collection edition of Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. Considered a minor work for the director, it actually holds up exceptionally well through the years and the restored print for the DVD, out now, is marvelous. Being the only Hitchcock film…
