Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo is my favorite movie of all time. It’s a mesmerizing psychological thriller that beguiles on multiple levels and has come to be known as the film that most reveals the man behind the camera,...
Category: Mystery
The Concrete Cowboys (1979)
Imagine if Smokey and the Bandit featured amateur private investigators instead of beer running speedsters and you’ll have some concept of what this made-for-TV movie is all about. The Concrete Cowboys stars Jerry Reed and Tom Selleck...
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
A nicely structured depiction of true-life events, based on the book by Alan Dershowitz, Reversal of Fortune takes a fascinating look into the events of Claus von Bulow’s appeal to the case involving his comatose...
Gaudi Afternoon (2001)
Based on the novel by Barbara Wilson, Gaudi Afternoon is a gender-bender mystery that plays as a mix of Woody Allen and Pedro Almodovar, where most of its laughs come from the interaction of the...
Road Games (1981) | aka Roadgames
Self-declared pupil of Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Franklin, worked closely with screenwriter Everett De Roche (their second collaboration together, after the cult thriller, Patrick) to create another film project. At the time, De Roche had...
Mute Witness (1995)
Although credited by many critics as a suspenser in the Hitchcock tradition, Mute Witness owes more to the works of Brian De Palma’s slash-and-gash homages to the Master than to Hitch himself. The film starts off...
I Love Trouble (1994)
Nick Nolte stars as Peter Brackett, Chicago’s most popular reporter, and eligible bachelor. Brackett has been coasting for years off of his own image and reputation, regurgitating his older material and trying to pass...
Silver Streak (1976)
Silver Streak is the first of two Colin Higgins scripts to emulate the lighter side of Hitchcock (Foul Play is the other), and even though no one would ever confuse the quality of this film with...
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Although the film deals with murder at the core of the plot, Manhattan Murder Mystery proves to be one of the lightest of Woody Allen’s films, playing everything as a straight comedy, and the result is...
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Trouble with Harry shows a lighter side to Hitchcock, continuing a trend from the fluffy soufflé, To Catch a Thief, and the light-hearted spirit of the “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” television show he launched in the same...