Movies is Good: Hitchcock in 4K

by JB

Given my penchant for snotty-nosed humor, I was going to title this column “Shootout at the 4K Corral,” but that would only work if the celebrated director was named Alfred Hitching Post.

“Wild Al” Hickock? Okay, I’m done.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat...of Doom!

by Melissa Uhrin

Creepy children songs and horror movies go together like beans and farts.

Glutton for Punishment: The Deadly Bees

by JB

The Deadly Bees exists only to prove that Alfred Hitchcock is a master filmmaker, and his film The Birds is a masterpiece.

Director Essentials: Alfred Hitchcock (JB's Take)

Alfred Hitchcock was the greatest film director of the twentieth century. These thirteen essential Hitchcock films prove why.

Sh!#ting on the Classics: The Birds

Last Tuesday I attended the Turner Classic Movies screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, the happiest place on earth. But what I witnessed there did not make me happy at all.

I will resist the temptation to make jokes about birds shitting all over everything because in this case, a misguided audience shit all over The Birds.