Hitchcock is tongue-in-cheek, sentimental, revealing, and, overall, a production – which seems to be the way that Hitchcock himself would have wanted it, if the film is to be believed. Admittedly, here lies the rub. Is it accurate that the master of suspense routinely spoke with such a mesmerizing and dreary cadence, extended both his lips and […]

 

 

Characteristically, the road movie is a catharsis played out on the big screen. Mounting frustrations of quotidian, pedestrian existences crescendo into a need to break away from all that is familiar. At the same time, the road movie is a contradiction as characters escape the familiar by utilizing the uber-familiar and search for the unknown by means […]