However, that doesn’t mean one can’t make a satisfying picture that continues to tell the tale. While they’re sacrilege to some, the Psycho sequels get a bad rap, yet they’re actually pretty good, considering the awfully intimidating shadow in which they exist. The first two, 1983’s Psycho II and 1986’s Psycho III, have made their […]
Hitchcock
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Pushing [Un]boundaries
Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson’s M&M For Curtis Jones, a professor of printmaking at the University of Oklahoma, the [Un]bound exhibition opening Friday at [Artspace] at Untitled represents his big chance to share his passion for 3-D printmaking with Oklahoma City. Because the art form rarely is seen outside “bigger cities,” he said locals may […]
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Marathon, man!
Comedy! Missed the first-season set of Episodes? Skip it. Instead, grab the new two-disc set collecting the first two years. Although very much a Hollywood in-joke, the Showtime series tells that in-joke with excellence, anchored by Friends vet Matt LeBlanc starring as an A-holier version of himself, reduced to starring on a hockey sitcom overseen […]
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Hitchcock
Hitchcock, which opens Friday, isn’t a bad movie; it’s just a baffling one. Purportedly about the making of 1960’s Psycho, it winds up a hodgepodge of old-fashioned biopic, bogus psychological thriller and simplistic domestic melodrama. The film, however, is hardly the work of incompetents. Director Sacha Gervasi has an absorbing rockumentary (Anvil: The Story of […]
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A Separation
Some of the most exciting and challenging films in the world these days are coming from Iran, so it’s no surprise that A Separation, a tense and absorbing domestic drama packed with the suspense of a Hitchcock flick, recently earned the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Opening Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall […]
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Unknown
Still, he has room to grow, and a need for a script that’s up to snuff. Yet another entry in the bad-ass column for Liam Neeson — not a complaint, mind you — “Unknown” explores what happens when his Dr. Harris lands in Berlin for a biotech conference with his wife (January Jones), gets in […]
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Deep Red
Really, it was like I didn’t see it at all, because watching an Argento work in anything but a crisp-as-chips format is like eating pizza with no cheese or tomato sauce. Now, thanks to Blue Underground, “Deep Red” not only makes its Blu-ray debut, but is presented in both an uncensored English version and Argento’s […]
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The Tourist
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Alfred Hitchcock is dead. That doesn’t mean that he is no longer the master of suspense. “North by Northwest” will always be the exemplar of the lighthearted thriller in which an innocent man is mistakenly identified as someone else — someone with dangerous secrets — […]
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5 Films by Dario Argento
2008 As it should, the blood flows bright red in the Italian giallo movies that comprise Anchor Bay’s box set “5 Films by Dario Argento.” Known for his stylish eye behind the camera —? not to mention the oft-traumatized eyes in front of the camera —? Argento is one of the few directors worthy of […]