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Tag Archives: The Birds
Couch Potato Pickings | Hitchcock’s 110th birthday celebration
Since today marks 110 years since the day filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was born, Sky Movies Classics are holding a Hitchock birthday marathon which kicks off this morning at 7.30am with Lifeboat and concludes with Topaz at 5.20am. Click here for … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings: Hitchcock Week – what’s your favourite Hitch movie?
What’s your favourite Hitchcock film? It’s a question people ask me from time to time and my answer is always the same – Rebecca. Nevertheless, just lately, I’ve shied away from answering this query because my response always produces an … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, favourite Hitchcock film, Frenzy, Lifeboat, Marnie, North By Northwest, Notorious, Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, The Birds, The Man Who Knew Too Much, To Catch a Thief, Topaz, Torn Curtain, Vertigo, which Alfred Hitchcock film are you
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The Best view | The Happening is a non-event: Has M Night Shyamalan lost the plot?
What has happened to the career of M Night Shyamalan? Less than a decade ago, after the shock success of The Sixth Sense, the Indian-born, Philadelphia-raised director was being spoken of in the same breath as Spielberg and Hitchcock as … Continue reading
Posted in DVD Releases, The Best View
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ashlyn Sanchez, Bruce Willis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Die Hard, Haley Joel Osment, Lady in the Water, M Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Giamatti, Phantom Menace, Scream, Signs, Sixth Sense, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, The Birds, The Happening, The Village, Unbreakable, Zooey Deschanel
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Couch Pumpkin Pickings: Today’s Halloween Movies
I’m actually not going to watch any Halloween movies today as I’ll be heading out in my seasonal costume to celebrate this spooky date. And, to be honest, it’s just as well. There are plenty of scary films showing today, … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Bitten, Black Christmas, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Catherine Deneuve, Dead Silence, Disney's Cinemagic, Halloween II, Halloween III: The Season of the Witch, Halloween movies, Halloween Night, Harlequin, Henry James, Hitchcock, Monster Man, Poltergeist, Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie, Ravenous, SawI, Scary Movie 3, Severed, Signs, Susan Sarandon, The Birds, The Exorcist, The Hunger, The Innocents, The Others, The People Under the Stairs, The Ring, The Sixth Sense, The Turn of the Screw, Watch, Wes Craven, When Good Ghouls Go Bad
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Heidi’s Halloween Treats… Let’s Hear It For Hitchcock.
It just didn’t seem right to do a blog roll of Scary Movie Moments and not include that old Master of Suspense himself Alfred Hitchcock. Now, I know that Hitch’s movies in their heyday are really all about thrills not spills, … Continue reading
Posted in Seasonal
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Halloween, Janet Leigh, Psycho, Rod Taylor, The Birds, Tippi Hedren
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Couch Potato Pickings – North By Northwest
On TCM tonight at 9pm It seems that everyone has a favourite Alfred Hitchcock film and for some people this chase thriller is theirs. Cary Grant plays an ordinary business executive who inadvertently becomes embroiled in espionage and murder. You … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, GQ, James Bond, North By Northwest, Psycho, Rebecca, Strangers on a Train, The Birds
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