The Master of Suspense’s Top Ten? Tell us if you agree…
1. North by Northwest (1959)
Simply his best outing – the master ratchets up the tension in this classic tale, which starts off with a New York skyscraper as the backdrop to very stylish credits and a roaring Bernard Hermann score.
Festive faves
Following our take on the turkeys last week, we present a selection of ten movies without which Yuletide simply couldn’t exist. A very happy Christmas to all our readers!
Not all of them have a festive setting, but there are no apologies – in terms of mood, memories and magic, these are the [...]
[photopress:numb.png,thumb,alignleft]Numb not dumb
Jeremy Slater returns with his views on an idiosyncratic rom-com…
Here at Picturenose, your favourite film-review website, we like to go what could be termed as off-piste quite often, (which is rather different from sports, though, truth be told, a couple of us here could do with being a little less off sports) and [...]
[photopress:vertigo.gif,thumb,alignleft]Don’t look down
How did it get so late so early? Picturenose is delighted to announce its 200th posting and offer heartfelt thanks to our readers, who make it all worthwhile. To celebrate our double century, we once again give the floor to Young Turk Cillian Donnelly, who here presents a trenchant and at times controversial [...]
[photopress:President.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Following the victory of Barack Obama in the 2008 US Presidential Elections, Cillian Donnelly (author of what was Picturenose’s most popular post, 100 Movies To Be Seen Before You Die, until James’s Quantum of Solace review blew it away, ha-ha) returns with a look at how America’s Chief Executive has been portrayed on [...]
[photopress:Rope_pic_2.jpg,thumb,alignleft]In cold blood
Young Cillian Donnelly, whose 100 Movies To Be Seen Before You Die was, irritatingly enough, our most popular post until James’s fabulous review of Quantum of Solace blew it out of the water, commemorates the 60th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, first released on 28th August, in 1948.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) remains to [...]
