Helen Mirren
Trailer Trashin’: The Master of Suspense Lives Again in Hitchcock
With the release of Argo this past week, we’re officially in the season of prestige films and Oscar contenders. With that in mind, this week breaks new ground for Trailer Trashin’, because it’s my first time writing about a biopic, with the first trailer for Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock. Premise: The film centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony H...[Read More]
Movie Review: Brighton Rock
It’s the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe’s glossy update of Graham Greene’s canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock. Transposing the setting from pre-war England to the era of “teddy boys” on scooters, director Joffe graduates from BBC television movies to his first feature—an assured effort masking a lack of suspenseful drive and only scratching the surface of Greene’s ponderings on...[Read More]
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