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Culture Warrior: What is Hitchcockian Suspense?

Culture Warrior: What is Hitchcockian Suspense?

To movie critics (including myself): yer doin’ it wrong.

By Landon Palmer on November 16, 2009 | Comments

Spielberg To Tackle 6-Foot Invisible Rabbit with ‘Harvey’

Spielberg To Tackle 6-Foot Invisible Rabbit with ‘Harvey’

Literally. The entire film will be Steven Spielberg wrestling an invisible rabbit in his living room.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on August 3, 2009 | Comments

Make Time for Jimmy Stewart in ‘No Time For Comedy’

Make Time for Jimmy Stewart in ‘No Time For Comedy’

Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: No Time for Comedy (1940).

By Dr. Cole Abaius on July 6, 2008 | Comments

Two Men Who Knew Too Much

Two Men Who Knew Too Much

Modern film geeks seem to complain a lot about remakes. Whether they are needless, obvious commercialism for commercialism’s sake, or flat out assaulting childhoods, it’s a safe bet to rail on any film that’s been done before. Would we have felt the same way in 1956 when Alfred Hitchcock redid his own film, The Man Who Knew Too Much?

By Dr. Cole Abaius on June 30, 2008 | Comments

12 Days of Christmas Movies: It’s A Wonderful Life

12 Days of Christmas Movies: It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s Christmas Eve. A desperate man is suicidal, certain that his entire life has been worthless, and he’s facing a ruinous scandal. But heaven has better things in store for George Bailey.

By Maggie Van Ostrand on December 21, 2007 | Comments