Hitchcock: monster or moralist?

Hitchcock: monster or moralist?
Biographers are divided on how to judge the personality of Alfred Hitchcock

Montgomery Clift stars as Father Michael Logan in I, Confess (1953)

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Bess Twiston Davies

Was Alfred Hitchcock a sexual monster? Or was he, as the French film makers Rohmer and Chabrol once claimed, a moralist whose films are steeped in [...]

The report of my death was an exaggeration

Mark Twain said “”The report of my death was an exaggeration”. written May 1897”.
The other day I picked up the telephone to be greeted by a voice that I had not heard for ages. It was a pleasant surprise to hear him after not having contact for a few years. The voice was familiar but [...]

No country for old men

This movie marks a return by the Coen Brother to the highest level of their craft. This in my opinion is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. This is a colourful, well crafted thriller has been described as “a quirky and bloody meditation on the rising tide of violence [...]