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When people talk about Alan Ritchson they usually talk about his muscles or his fight scenes, but they don't talk about his sheer comedic presence. He first made his name as Thad in "Blue Mountain State," a character whose high-pitched scream I can still hear any time I close my eyes. Thad was the standout character on that show, and it was a performance that led to Ritchson getting cast for one-off roles on sitcoms like "New Girl," "Workaholics," and the only funny episode of "Black Mirror" season 3. But Ritchson's greatest sitcom role was his brief appearance in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," playing a character nobody saw coming.

The episode was season 6's "Hitchcock & Scully," which opens up with an intense flashback to 1980s New York City. Two suave young detectives beat up a couple of bad guys, save a damsel in distress, and look damn good doing it. After finishing up...

Legendary Hollywood actress Kim Novak (Vertigo, Picnic, Bell, Book and Candle) will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (Aug. 27–Sept. 6).

Venice also unveiled that the documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe, “made in exclusive collaboration with the actress,” will be presented in its world premiere during the festival.

The decision about the honor was made by the board of directors of La Biennale, based on the recommendation of the artistic director of the festival, Alberto Barbera, organizers said Monday.

“I am deeply, deeply touched to receive the prestigious Golden Lion Award from such an enormously respected film festival,” said Novak. “To be recognized for my body of work at this time in my life is a dream come true. I will treasure every moment I spend in Venice. It will fill my heart with joy.

Kim Novak is to receive the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

The festival, which runs August 27-September 6, also will screen the world premiere of documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe, made in collaboration with the legendary American actress.

Known for movies including Vertigo, Picnic, and Bell Book and Candle, Novak said today: “I am deeply, deeply touched to receive the prestigious Golden Lion Award from such an enormously respected film festival. To be recognized for my body of work at this time in my life is a dream come true. I will treasure every moment I spend in Venice. It will fill my heart with joy.”

Venice’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera declared: “Inadvertently becoming a screen legend, Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her auspicious debut during the mid-1950s until her...

Alfred Hitchcock's astounding legacy as a filmmaker spans more than six decades, starting with "The Lodger," a 1927 silent film that is believed to be the director's first critical success. The overarching themes in "The Lodger" anticipate Hitchcock's directorial sensibilities, such as his keen interest in complex psychosexuality and a perceptive preoccupation with death, guilt, and the cyclical nature of trauma. If we were to go further back, there's the debut feature "The Pleasure Garden," which was deemed too erotically charged back when it was released, and contains the blueprints for the iconic imagery that would end up defining his oeuvre down the line.

However, a lesser-known film exists right between "The Pleasure Garden" and "The Lodger" — one that has been deemed lost media save for the existence of six surviving stills from it. This 1926 silent film, "The Mountain Eagle," is a romantic drama that leans heavily into German expressionism,...

Sean Connery may’ve been James Bond, but even 007 couldn’t dodge this Hollywood misfire. When Peter Jackson approached Connery to play Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the legendary actor turned it down, reportedly because he “didn’t understand the script.” That decision ended up costing him more than just a chance at cinematic immortality.

With the trilogy going on to become a global phenomenon, Connery walked away from a deal that could’ve earned him about $400+ million. Here’s a closer look at how one of cinema’s coolest icons passed on one of its biggest paydays.

Sean Connery turned down The Lord of the Rings and missed $447 million Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No | Credits: Eon Productions

Sean Connery once passed on a role that could’ve landed him nearly half a billion dollars. Yep, that’s how much he potentially lost by...

If movies have taught us anything it’s that if someone asks you to dispose of a dead body, you say “no.” In fact, movies have taught us this valuable lesson so many times and for so many decades that I’m genuinely shocked when anyone — even in movies — still thinks it’s a smart idea in a dead body situation. There are only two possibilities why this plot point would still be so prevalent: 1. People actually do it in real life all the time (which is a creepy thought) or 2. People generally want the plot of a movie to, you know, happen … so you can’t have everybody doing the smart thing and resolving all their problems halfway through.

“Echo Valley” is the latest in a long line of crime movies where someone gets involved in a dead body situation and makes the snap decision to dispose of the thing.

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Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research

In anticipation of The Jag, a new play produced by yours truly, Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo present Jean-François Stévenin’s Mountain Pass on Friday.

Film at Lincoln Center

Films by Antonioni, Buñuel, and more play in a retrospective of Monica Vitti.

Anthology Film Archives

Films by Stan Brakhage play in Essential Cinema.

Roxy Cinema

Tongues Untied screens on Friday; Dressed In Blue, Three Bewildered People In the Night, and The Wild Boys show Saturday; Ratcatcher plays on Sunday.

Museum of the Moving Image

The Raid, District 13, Stagecoach, and Jackass 3D screen in “See It Big: Stunts!“; Alien shows Saturday and Sunday.

IFC Center

Ran continues in a 40th-anniversary restoration; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Happiness play daily; Romeo + Juliet, To Live and Die in L.A., Audition, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang show late.

When it was announced that Mike Flanagan would be acting as showrunner on a new TV adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, there was one question on everyone’s lips. Why? Having been made into a movie back in 1976 starring Sissy Spacek and John Travolta, and having remakes, sequels, and previous TV miniseries, what could possibly make anyone see the need for yet another version of the same story? It seems that was a question bugging the show’s star, Matthew Lillard, too.

Lillard, who is known for his roles in the Scream franchise, Scooby-Doo, and Five Nights at Freddy’s, takes on the role of Principal Grayle, the head of the school attended by King’s troubled teenager. While speaking about the upcoming project with The Kingcast, the actor addressed the reason that Flanagan is making another version of Carrie’s story – and how he will not be copying an infamous Alfred Hitchcock remake.

Known for her compelling performances in shows like Euphoria and The White Lotus, Sydney Sweeney ventured into the realm of erotic thrillers with the 2021 movie The Voyeurs, a movie following a young couple’s unhealthy obsession with their eccentric neighbours across the street.

And though the actress did her best in the movie, the film itself failed to garner the anticipated reception, especially with critics noting its overt parallels to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, suggesting that despite its modern twists, The Voyeurs struggles to establish a distinct identity.

Sydney Sweeney’s Hitchcockian Knockoff fell flat on its face despite her best efforts

Directed by Michael Mohan and starring Sydney Sweeney alongside Justice Smith, The Voyeurs aimed to rekindle the allure of Hitchcockian suspense in erotic thrillers for a modern audience.

Despite its attempts to bring a fresh perspective, the film inevitably drew comparisons to classics like Rear Window, weaving a tale of voyeurism,...

The BBC and Working Title are developing an adaptation of Em Forster’s epic period piece A Passage to India.

Working Title exec Surian Fletcher-Jones has just revealed the news about the new five-part series on an SXSW London panel. We understand Nisha Parti is also producing and her Parti Productions is a co-production partner.

Fletcher-Jones said the team are collaborating on the adaptation with Canadian film director and writer Richie Mehta.

The Forster novel just turned 100. Set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s, it revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested.

A Passage to India was most recently adapted by David Lean in 1984 for a movie starring Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers and Victor Banerjee.

Fletcher-Jones said the adaptation will “reclaim colonial history” and...

Upcoming Sarah Snook-starring thriller series All Her Fault and Lena Dunham rom-com show Too Much, as well as a planned TV take on Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds got big shout-outs during SXSW London on Thursday.

They were in the spotlight as global hit series from various production labels under the Universal International Studios umbrella took center stage at the first-ever SXSW London.

“Global Stories: What makes compelling TV?” was the question discussed by Surian Fletcher-Jones, head of drama at Working Title Television; Sue Gibbs, head of development at Heyday Television, the joint venture of producer David Heyman and Universal International Studios; and Noemi Spanos, creative director at Carnival Films. Beatrice Springborn, president, Universal International Studios and Universal Content Productions (UCP), functioned as the moderator.

Confronted with a question about how TV industry cost reductions, other spending cutbacks and layoffs are affecting their work, the execs shared insight into the challenges but also opportunities.

Exclusive: Production is underway on a documentary about entertainer Doris Day, one of the greatest stars in Hollywood history.

With Love, Doris!, from director-producer C.J. Wallis, producer Jim Dunlap and producer Mallory Kennedy, is built around never-before-heard audio tapes of Day responding to letters from fans. Day dictated her responses over the phone to her longtime assistant, Judy Ruby; Ruby then transcribed the tapes and sent them back to the star for revision and signature before the letters were mailed to fans. Ruby shared the recordings with Dunlap after Doris Day’s passing in 2019 at the age of 97.

“What an honor to be the keeper of this precious piece of Hollywood history,” said Dunlap. “I’m thrilled to finally get to share a side of Doris that few people knew,...

Turnstile’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2021’s massive Glow On is like a mysterious gallery. It’s not so much a collection of tracks, but impressions, aural vignettes that are more about a feeling than a message — a vibe that listeners can pursue at their leisure, like wandering through an echoing portrait hall. It makes sense that frontman Brendan Yates has dubbed himself an “art director” this time around, as the band takes another step toward challenging the already-blurry edges of genre, and creating something new with Never Enough.

The Baltimore...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine features some brilliant characters who gel pretty well together. Be it Rosa and Amy, Jake and Boyle, or even Hitchcock and Scully, fans have loved every combination and permutation of the cast as duos. However, there is one that has not received a lot of screen time but is arguably one of the funniest pairs in the whole show.

If there was ever a spin-off based on one of these relationships, it should have been between Captain Holt and Charles Boyle, which would have resulted in some epic hilarity. Holt’s overtly stoic demeanor would have contrasted perfectly with Boyle’s over-emotional eccentricities.

Captain Holt and Boyle have some of the best interactions in Brooklyn Nine-Nine Raymond Holt and Charles Boyle || Credit: NBC

Captain Holt (played by the late Andre Braugher) and Charles Boyle (played by Joe Lo Truglio) have some of the most hilarious interactions in the show.

Director Quentin Tarantino is of the firm opinion that filmmakers lose their touch as they grow older. "Most directors have terrible last movies," he said on the Pure Cinema Podcast. But, in addition to disliking the later films of Alfred Hitchcock, Tarantino isn't a fan of the great director's masterpieces either. Several of them, including Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho, were made available to stream on Netflix this month. Among them is the 1972 film Frenzy, which Tarantino hates with passion. In his book, Cinema Speculation, Tarantino went so far as to call the film "crap."

In a chapter dedicated to the movies of Brian De Palma, Tarantino found himself getting distracted by his dislike of Hitchcock's films. "While De Palma liked making thrillers, I doubt he loved watching them,” Tarantino wrote, adding, “Hitchcockian thrillers were, for him, a means to an end. That’s why when he was forced...

Perhaps more than any other director in the history of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by identity. Many of his films revolve around a case of mistaken identity. This was played out in many of his classic films, from Saboteur to The Wrong Man and on to North by Northwest.

In each case, our erstwhile hero has been accused of some villainous act and must fight his way through 120-odd minutes to clear his name.

In others, it's the protagonist themself who isn't quite sure of who they truly are. Hitchcock never resorted to anything as cumbersome as an actual mask, although there may be a wig involved. A prime example of this is the seminal thriller Psycho.

3 new classics on Netflix that wear their Alfred Hitchcock on their sleeves

The titular character of Marnie has a deeply hidden self as well. In both films, the truth is revealed to...

Summer is almost fully upon us, and though that might mean more time away from your television most days, there will definitely still be times you’ll just want some quality couch rotting with Netflix. And there’s a lot you’ll be able to watch in June.

With a slew of new original movies and series, plus non-Netflix films and series, there’s a lot to choose from this month. Ahead of “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” releasing later this year, you’ll be able to rewatch the first two films and catch up.

If you fell behind on “Grey’s Anatomy,” you can watch the most recent season too. Or, if you want to check out an older Shondaland series, all seven seasons of “Scandal,” starring Kerry Washington, hit the streamer in June too.

You can check out the full list of new arrivals for the month below.

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From a genre perspective, Scott Frank's latest project for Netflix has little in common with his previous two shows for the streaming service, the Emmy-winning limited series The Queen’s Gambit and Godless. But like them, Dept. Q is must-see TV.

Adapted from the best-selling Department Q crime novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, the nine-episode series (now streaming) stars Matthew Goode as Dci Carl Morck, an acerbic detective returning to work months after a routine welfare check leaves a young cop dead, his best friend and partner paralyzed from the waist down, and him with a bullet wound to the neck and mandated therapy. When his embattled Edinburgh police station needs a PR win, Morck is assigned to...

The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, Had The Weirdest Phobia Ever(Photo Credit –Wikimedia)

Alfred Hitchcock hated eggs. That’s a weird way to start a story about one of the greatest directors in film history, but it’s true. The man behind Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, and about ten other movies your parents pretend to love more than they do was utterly terrified of eggs. Yes! Not the birds (the ones after which Hitchcock even made a movie) but eggs. The ones with yolks, the yellow kind.

Alfred Hitchcock: The Director Who Turned Fear Into Fame

It requires no special mention that Alfred Hitchcock built a legendary career out of playing puppet master to the nerves of audiences everywhere, by turning everyday moments into scenes of sweat-inducing suspense. You’d think someone like that wouldn’t flinch at anything smaller than a butcher knife. But apparently, breakfast could send him running.

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Roxy Cinema

We’re presenting an Ib Technicolor print of Howard Hawks’ Hatari! this Friday and Sunday; Friday also brings Mad Max: Fury Road on 35mm and Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies); prints of John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan play on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Bam

The Sealed Soil begins playing in a new restoration (watch our trailer debut).

Museum of the Moving Image

Cassavetes’ Gloria plays Saturday and Sunday; Raiders of the Lost Ark and prints of Hooper and Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior screen in “See It Big: Stunts!“; Troma’s Curse of the Weredeer shows on Saturday, while films by Nadia Shahib are presented on Sunday.

IFC Center

Ran continues screening in a 40th-anniversary restoration; Before Sunrise and Goodfellas play daily; Children of Men, To Live and Die in L.

Alfred Hitchcock began making movies in the early 1920s, half a decade before the advent of the talking feature film. Fifty years later, he was still at it. During his long career, he not only moved from silents to talkies – he also moved from his native England to Hollywood. It was a shift in working conditions that would have a major influence on his output.

Beginning on June 1, Netflix will be featuring six films from the latter part of Hitchcock’s career, along with several other interesting companion pieces. This is by no means a complete compendium of the director’s final years. The newly available titles represent about half of the movies he made over his final 20 years.

However, except for two, as of June 1, you will be able to watch most of Hitch’s best films from this final stage. Some of them ranked right up there with...

Here’s How Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Was Filmed(Photo Credit –Prime Video)

Alfred Hitchcock had already made a name for himself when The Birds swooped into production in 1963. It was a movie that came off the success of Psycho, and subsequently, expectations were high. Hitchcock knew the next film had to be terrifying in a whole new way, and being the perfectionist, he pushed everything to the edge, especially his actors and crew.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Bold Vision After Psycho

According to Collider, the movie was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, but what Alfred Hitchcock created was something far more intense and surreal. He brought in writer Evan Hunter to handle the screenplay, giving him total freedom. Hunter imagined striking scenes of violent bird attacks without worrying about how they’d be filmed. That responsibility would later fall on others, and the job turned...

The movie that Quentin Tarantino proclaimed as the greatest of all time is coming to streaming next month, so fans can decide for themselves whether they agree with the director or not. Quentin Tarantino's movies showcase his love of classic cinema, as he seems to draw from a wide variety of influences. Tarantino has spoken about his love for the Dollars trilogy before, but he also demonstrates an interest in anything from old war movies to blaxploitation action comedies. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a neat summary of his undying passion for all genres of cinema.

Tarantino often speaks about his favorite movies, and he does so with a refreshing candor that not many people in Hollywood can afford. He's one of the only people both popular and influential enough to make his true feelings known, like when he referred to a Hitchcock classic as "mediocre". This makes...

It sounds like Toronto is the place to be this July, as The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that genre filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is set to host a lecture series called From Rabid to Skinamarink: Canadian Movie Madness at TIFF Lightbox from July 9 to 13!

As explained by THR, the curated showcase will see the maestro of monsters take audiences through a series of iconic genre pics like David Cronenberg’s sophomore feature Rabid (1977), Vincenzo Natali’s Cube (1997) and John Fawcett’s supernatural fright pic Ginger Snaps starring Katharine Isabelle (2000) to reveal and explain their horror genre beats. The Mexican director will also explain the mechanics of Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool (2008), and Kyle Edward Ball’s feature directorial debut, Skinamarink (2022) for their own visual and emotional impacts on audiences. Del Toro often works in Toronto and has previously hosted lecture series on Mexican cinema, Alfred Hitchcock films, and film noir.

You love thrillers and suspense films, right? Maybe sometimes they even tease into horror, but do not go all-in. If those are the movies you love, you'll adore the Alfred Hitchcock collection arriving on Netflix June 1.

There will be six films total. You won't see Psycho, but you will see Rear Window. Hitchcock made a lot of movies, and he made a lot of great films. Almost all are worth watching.

To help with the ranking below, we used Rotten Tomatoes score system of critical reviews. All were well-liked. All are worth watching.

Ranking all of the Alfred Hitchcock films arriving on Netflix on June 16. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Bernard Miles and Ralph Truman

Plot: Dr. Ben McKenna (Stewart) and his wife (Day) and son are vacationing in Morocco when a stranger is killed in front of them. Before he dies, he reveals...

As with every month on Netflix, your favorite streamer is bringing a lot of new goodies on June 1. The total number of 29 might not seem as much as the last few months, but then fewer things are leaving at the end of May. There’s less to give because there is less to take away.

And while we will get into what will be streaming beginning next week, we can tease a bit deeper into June as well. On June 5, the third season of Ginny & Georgia drops. Fubar Season 2 will be released on June 12. The Waterfront appears on June 19. Squid Game Season 3 starts on June 27.

In other words, there is going to be good stuff delivered throughout the month, but we have to wait a little longer than normal to view them.

What is coming to Netflix on the first day of June 2025?

Perhaps the best thing about the...

Netflix Streaming Vertigo Rear Window The Birds Films ( Photo Credit – Netflix; Instagram )

Netflix is ready to dig into the vault of suspense this June, as they are bringing a lineup of Alfred Hitchcock films that still manage to rattle nerves decades after their release. Six of the legendary director’s works will be available to stream starting on the first of the month and there’s more expected down the line.

According to Collider, this batch includes some of his most iconic titles, especially the ones that shaped the horror genre and left a permanent mark on cinema.

Vertigo: The Groundbreaking Thriller That Changed Cinema

Among them is Vertigo, the film that made the world dizzy in more ways than one. Its use of camera technique to create a feeling of unease helped shift the way fear was portrayed on screen.

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Jake Weary as Cane Buckley, Danielle Campbell as Peyton, and Melissa Benoist as Bree Buckley in ‘The Waterfront’ (Photo Cr. Dana Hawley/Netflix © 2025)

The final season of Squid Game, season three of Ginny & Georgia, and Fubar season two are set to premiere on Netflix in June 2025. The streamer’s June lineup also includes the debut of the documentary Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy and The Waterfront series starring Holt McCallany, Maria Bello, Melissa Benoist, and Jake Weary.

Among the films leaving are GoodFellas, Magic Mike Xxl, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Trap, American Sniper, and The Dark Knight trilogy. Bee Movie, The Blues Brothers, The Equalizer, The Legend of Zorro, and Us are also vanishing from Netflix’s lineup in June.

Brianne Howey as Georgia, Scott Porter, Antonia Gentry, and Diesel La Torraca as Austin in ‘Ginny & Georgia’ (Photo Cr. Amanda Matlovich/Netflix © 2025) New to Netflix in June...

With a catalog that spans decades, these are your absolute favorites.

Following up on our community-based rankings of Pixar and James Bond films, we’re stepping into the shadows. This time, we asked for your help ranking the films of Alfred Hitchcock — the master of suspense, whose influence on cinema is as enduring as it is spine-tingling. From the chilling stillness of “Psycho” to the dizzying heights of “Vertigo,” Hitchcock’s work spans decades. Whether it’s a man on the run, a suspicious neighbor, or a deadly bird attack, each movie carries his signature style that has ingrained itself into cinematic history.

Ranking Hitchcock’s films is no simple feat. Some are undisputed classics that reshaped the thriller genre, while others are fascinating oddities or underrated gems; some are even missing altogether. We turned to you, our always insightful community, and your votes did not disappoint.

After collecting your input and tallying the results,...

There are some horror movies that, no matter how old they are, can still give you chills. This is especially true for the work of horror masters like Alfred Hitchcock, who still serves as an influence on movies of the genre to this very day. If you are a film buff or just an enthusiast of cult classic horror movies and a Netflix subscriber, you will be glad to know that the streamer is adding Hitchcock classics to its library next month. Starting on June 1, six Hitchcock titles will become available to stream – and it looks like the plan is to add more in the upcoming months.

The first slate of titles includes some of Hitchcock's absolute classics, like Vertigo, Rear Window, and The Birds. Vertigo was the movie that changed horror – and cinema – forever due to its pioneering use of the dolly zoom, a camera trick used to distort...

The 2022 thriller Watcher just landed on Netflix, and I’ve got to ask you guys to watch it. You know, it’s the kind of movie that creeps up on you… slowly, silently. Right from the get-go, there’s this uncomfortable tension, which I can’t really put in words, but that’s just there. If you’re a fan of that classic Hitchcock flavor, this film nails it.

It doesn’t rely on cheap scares or scary sounds, but digs into your nerves. Like for me, I went in expecting a moody, slow-burning movie, but what I got was a literal anxiety spiral. And truth be told, I loved every second.

Watcher: A slow-burn Netflix thriller that stares back at you Maika Monroe in Watcher | Credits: Universal Pictures

Watcher is now on Netflix, and trust me when I say this, if you’re into the suspense that messes with your head,...

Like Netflix and HBO Max, Amazon’s Prime Video has a film and TV library that is vast and deeper than most of its subscribers may realize. Hidden beneath its most easily accessible recommendations are underrated, oft-forgotten movies that you likely have never seen before. These films run the complete genre gamut, which means that, regardless of whether you are in the mood for a light-hearted Hollywood adventure or a darker thriller, you can always find exactly the kind of movie you’re looking for on the platform.

With all that in mind, here are seven great hidden gem movies that are streaming on Prime Video right now.

“The Third Man” (Selznick Releasing Organization) “The Third Man (1949)

Rightly regarded as one of cinema’s greatest films, director Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” is a jovially constructed noir about betrayal, justice and loss. Written by Graham Greene, it follows an...

Hollywood star Veronica Cartwright has one of those faces instantly associated with horror: Lambert in Alien, Nancy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Felicia in The Witches of Eastwick. All standout roles that showed Cartwright's horror range and consolidated her status as an underrated icon of the genre. But perhaps her most significant early horror film role is the one many don't immediately remember. When she was just a child, Cartwright starred in a groundbreaking scary film directed by visionary Alfred Hitchcock. That film is the "nature strikes back" horror movieThe Birds.

Cartwright is currently promoting her most recent movie, an interesting return to the genre titled The Ruse. Per the report by IndieWire, Cartwright plays a "dementia-afflicted musician whose home contains myriad mysteries for the young nurse who has taken a job as her caregiver." At 76, Cartwright proves she hasn't lost her touch. It couldn't be any other way,...

Long before Alfred Hitchcock became a household name associated with classics like “Psycho” and “Dial M for Murder,” he began his filmmaking career in the U.K.

But even before releasing 1930s British films like “The 39 Steps” that many people associate him with, he was working in silent film. For both Ben Roberts, the British Film Institute’s chief executive, and Arike Oke, the executive director of knowledge, learning and collections, there’s continued value in drawing a line back to his silent films made between 1925 and 1929.

“There are things in those films that you can see echoes of in his later work, where he becomes a known filmmaker,” Oke tells Variety. “You also see him start to experiment with shot styles and storytelling, with some of the mystery and murder kind of elements and the melodrama.”

Hitchcock’s 1925 directorial debut, the British-German “The Pleasure Gardener,” is just one of...

Weapons-grade zingers come thick and fast in this chamber piece about four plutocrats on a weekend in a lodge that goes awry when the planet descends into chaos

Jesse Armstrong has returned with what feels like a horribly addictive feature-length spin-off episode from the extended Succession Cinematic Universe – though without Succession cast members. It is set in a luxurious Utah megalodge which winds up resembling the Dr Strangelove war room, mixed with the apartment from Hitchcock’s Rope. Mountainhead is a super-satirical chamber piece about the deranged, cynical and facetious mindset of the uber-wealthy, the kind of people who think about ancient Rome every day, though not about Nero and his violin. It may not have the dramatic richness of Armstrong’s TV meisterwerk while the pure testosterone of this all-male main cast (minus any Shiv figure) is oppressive – though that is kind of the point. The pure density of...

One of the most audacious young auteurs working today, 35-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan makes movies that don’t pull you in as much as they slowly wash over you. Moody, melancholic and filled with daunting technical feats, especially the director’s signature logistics-defying long takes, his films are beautifully realized meditations on nostalgia and loss in which the cinema is often a character itself.

In his beguiling new feature Resurrection, movies are both subject and object of a story spanning a hundred years of film history, from the silent era to the end of the last century. Reflecting on the seventh art’s past, present and possible future at a moment when many believe it to be in its death throes, Bi Gan has crafted a time-tripping, genre-jumping paean to the big screen in which he revives the films he loves and then buries them a second time over — hoping,...

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IFC Center

Ran begins screening in a 40th-anniversary restoration; Goodfellas and Withnail and I play daily; Wanda screens Friday and Sunday, with Children of Men on the former day; To Live and Die in L.A., Brain Damage, In the Realm of the Senses, and Liquid Sky show late.

Roxy Cinema

Paranormal Activity plays on 35mm this Friday; Fail Safe and a 16mm print of Prime Cut show on Saturday; Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies) and Kore-eda’s After Life (with Kiarostami’s short Solution) screen on Sunday.

Museum of the Moving Image

Police Story and prints of The Great Waldo Pepper and Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior screen in “See It Big: Stunts!“; Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird plays on Saturday and Sunday with special guests.

Japan Society

The Mikio Naruse retrospective continues.

Film at Lincoln Center

A career-spanning Kira Muratova retrospective continues.

There’s a reason Alfred Hitchcock is still talked about with awe decades after his heyday. The man didn’t just make thrillers—he practically invented the rulebook for them. Whether it was turning everyday things into pure nightmares or diving deep into the minds of his characters, Hitchcock had a knack for making the audience squirm, lean in, and sometimes hold their breath. His movies weren’t just scary; they were clever, stylish, and often way ahead of their time.

His works redefined the way people thought about storytelling in film. Trying to pick only a handful of “must-watch” Alfred Hitchcock films is a bit like choosing the best slice of cake at a French patisserie. Why? Because it’s almost impossible. Still, twelve of his movies stand tall. While the range of his work is massive, here are twelve unforgettable gems that show why he remains the king of suspense.

“Everything we always start with the intent of, ‘Let's try and change the world with this one,'” says writer Jack Thorne, of his partnership with actor-writer Stephen Graham.

The frequent collaborators may well have accomplished that mission with Adolescence, their sixth project together. The four-episode limited series, which chronicles the investigation into a 13-year-old boy, Jamie Miller (played by newcomer Owen Cooper), accused of murdering a classmate, has sparked much-needed conversations about the dangers of social media, incel culture, and the toxic manosphere among parents as well as legislators.

Adolescence has broken viewership records for Netflix, and is a front-runner across multiple Emmy categories — for its writing and directing, its performances, as well as its technical skills, with each episode shot in one continuous take.

Here, Thorne tells Gold Derby what inspired him to write Adolescence, his favorite moment in the series, and what he hopes people learn from it.

In February 2025, YouTube turned 20. The video site has gone through a lot over the past two decades, including an acquisition, an earnings glow-up, and multiple generations of star creators. In our 20 Years of YouTube series, we’ll examine the uploads, trends, and influencers that have defined the world’s favorite video site — one year at a time. Click here for a full archive of the series.

In 2008, the internet chose between Barack Obama and John McCain. A year later, a different dichotomy divided the web: You were either on Team Edward or Team Jacob.

I’m talking, of course, about Twilight. Bella Swan’s two love interests represented two different sides of the male ethos. Edward was dapper, broody, and mysterious (and a vampire). Jacob was protective, righteous, and gallant (and a werewolf). When Twilight: New Moon — the sequel that greatly expanded Jacob’s character — was at its cultural zenith,...

Netflix has announced the titles that are coming to the streaming service in June 2025. The movies and series that are leaving the service next month were also revealed.

The Netflix June 2025 schedule includes America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Season 2, Criminal Code Season 2, Fubar Season 2, Ginny & Georgia Season 3, KPop Demon Hunters, Pokémon Horizons Season 2 – The Search for Laqua Part 3, and Power Moves with Shaquille O’Neal.

The June schedule also includes Somebody Feed Phil Season 8, Squid Game Season 3, Tires Season 2, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, Too Hot to Handle: Spain, three installments of Trainwreck, Tyler Perry’s Straw, The Ultimatum: Queer Love Season 2, The Waterfront, and more.

Squid Game Season 3 Netflix June 2025 Schedule

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The Great Indian Kapil Show Season 3 (In) — Netflix Series

Comedian Kapil Sharma brings desi fun to an all-new season featuring celebrity guests, side-splitting gags, and a dash of classic Indian charm.

Rana Naidu Season 2 (In) — Netflix Series...

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Foster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel Auteuil

Rebecca Zlotowski serves up a genial, preposterous psychological mystery caper: the tale of an American psychoanalyst in Paris, watchably played by Jodie Foster in elegant French, who suspects that a patient who reportedly committed suicide was actually murdered. Zlotowski is perhaps channelling Hitchcock or De Palma, or even late-period Woody Allen – or maybe Zlotowski has, like so many of us, fallen under the comedy spell of Only Murders in the Building on TV and fancied the idea of bringing its vibe to Paris and transforming the mood – slightly – into something more serious.

Foster is classy shrink Lilian Steiner, stunned at the news that her client Paula Cohen-Solal (Virginie Efira) has taken her own life. She is also furiously confronted by Paula’s grieving widower Simon...

Looking back at 2005’s Nazar, Subhash K Jha shines the spotlight on the film, directed by Soni Razdan that featured the debut of Meera.

The heroine tries to smoulder over the sea-splashed boulder. Yup, the beach is back..and the intentions are bolder! Or so the film’s voluptuous publicity suggests. Alas, for those who expect a whole lotta oomph to be crammed into the thriller, there’s bad news.

Meera’s Bollywood debut proves her to be a competent actress. But she doesn’t have that oomphy quality which would have elevated the film’s mass-acceptance level.

Given its limitations, Nazar is a bit of a damp squib. The director Soni Razdan’s loose grip over her plot is matched by an absence of technical wherewithal in the story.

All through the longish drama, we are treated to the protagonist’s purportedly eerie hallucinations.

Meera can ‘see’ the dead before they die.

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An unfortunate encounter with a dog sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events that expose the corruption and tyranny at the heart of Iran

Jafar Panahi is the veteran Iranian auteur and democracy campaigner who continues to get arrested and imprisoned, to endure film-making bans and defy the law, finding loopholes through which his movies can be made and shown abroad. And the Iranian authorities, tensely and hypocritically aware of world scrutiny and indeed the soft-power prestige still to be accrued from Panahi’s eminence, appear (almost) to tolerate it.

Now Panahi has come to Cannes with what might be his most emotionally explicit film yet: a film about state violence and revenge, about the pain of tyranny that co-exists with ostensible everyday normality. There are macabre stabs of satire, black comedy and horror-farce, and the movie almost looks like an Iranian dissident tribute to Weekend...

If the Cannes Film Festival were a building, it would be the Carlton.

The iconic hotel, with its Belle Époque balustrades and twin cupola domes, its combination of old world elegance and over-the-top extravagance, is a manifestation — in limestone, stucco and pink marble — of the Cannes festival brand. “I often hear people compare the Carlton to the Eiffel Tower,” says Carlton Hotel general manager Pierre-Louis Renou. “On one hand, it’s gigantic, but on the other so immaculate. It’s kind of a monument to the glamour of Cannes.”

The first-ever Cannes festival was held at the Carlton Casino in 1946 — well before they built the Palais — and the Carlton has played a supporting, occasionally starring, role in the history of the festival ever since. The first Cannes celebrity photo-op? The best promotional stunts? The biggest backroom deals? They all happened at the Carlton.

The Cannes Festival Launches in the Carlton...

Get ready for a fresh batch of movies and shows coming to Netflix in June 2025! As we move into the summer months, there’s plenty to look forward to. This list includes all the new releases, from Netflix Originals to licensed titles, just for the United States.

In June, Netflix will add a mix of classic films, including an Alfred Hitchcock collection, recent hits like Barbarian and Us, and new seasons of popular shows like Ginny & Georgia and Squid Game. Additionally, fresh Netflix Originals include the animated movie KPop Demon Hunters, the crime series Mercy for None, and Tyler Perry’s thriller Straw.

Let’s see the whole list.

Related: Netflix Renews 8 of Its Most Popular Shows for New Seasons June 1st Vertigo (1958) – A retired detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman who might be possessed. Rear Window (1954) – A photographer stuck in his apartment...

Carnaval provides a convenient cover story for nearly 100 deaths and disappearances in “The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s robust sense-memory immersion into the sights, sounds and suffocating climate — both political and meteorological — the Brazilian director associates with 1977 Recife. It was a period of great “mischief,” per the super cinematic thriller’s opening titles, although that’s too light a word to describe the everyday corruption that permeates practically every aspect of this meaty 160-minute period piece. Mendonça remembers it well, demonstrating how even the worst of times can inspire a perverse sort of nostalgia.

The 56-year-old director was just 8 years old at the time the the film takes place — roughly the same age as Fernando, the son of his main character, a man of multiple identities played by “Narcos” star Wagner Moura — and it seems safe to assume that the boy’s all-consuming desire to see “Tubarão” (the Portuguese...

In 1983, Jim McBride attempted an English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 cinema landmark, Breathless with Richard Gere. It broke one of Godard’s cardinal rules: It was in color. Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the year before, also broke all the rules of its genre — it is dismissed today with the original still finding new life with young audiences each generation, as France’s New Wave also continues to do.

With the truly wonderful Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), premiering today in Competition at Cannes (where else?), Richard Linklater smartly has not attempted a remake of Breathless but rather a certain regard and respect for the wildly creative cinematic period Godard and his contemporaries achieved with the French New Wave. A cinema revolutionary in spirit and deed himself — just watch his...

Here’s Why Alfred Hitchcock Never Worked With Blonde Actress Marilyn Monroe (Photo Credit – Wikipedia)

Some directors leave a signature in every frame they shoot. Others are remembered for how they cast and shape their characters. Alfred Hitchcock, the so-called Master of Suspense and one of cinema’s most iconic directors, belonged firmly to the latter group. Among the various patterns that ran through his long career, his repeated choice to cast blonde women in key roles stands out the most. It became a signature of sorts that carried through his films, but more than a stylistic habit, it became something much deeper and, to be honest, more disturbing.

When Hitchcock’s Pattern Became A Habit

According to Far Out Magazine, this was not part of Hitchcock’s playbook from the very beginning. It happened when Madeleine Carroll took on the role of Pamela in The 39 Steps in 1935. The film marked a turning point,...

Christian Petzold’s gossamer latest film, “Mirrors No. 3,” is as compact as a novella, as ephemeral in its emotion, as delicate in register as one of the Chopin or Ravel pieces that float through it. A mystery woman, standing on a bridge, lost in thought. An amnesiac looking for respite. A car flipped upside down, its driver’s brains spilled onto the road while its passenger stares on, unharmed. Later, she eats apples in a bed that belongs to another woman, in clothes that belong to that woman’s daughter, trying on another life almost as a lark.

German filmmaker Petzold comes to Cannes for the first time with a minor-key new drama, which burrows into the psyche despite its slim running time and almost perverse refusal to explain itself or the shapes its narrative takes. The title comes from a piece written by Ravel — yes, that one you...