Sibling Cinema

Our Hitchcock countdown takes us one last time into his British era. This week we discuss the 1938 classic, The Lady Vanishes. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Gainsborough Picture. Released October 7, 1938. Produced by Edward Black. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Si...

The Breakfast Club is a movie.

We're taking another break from our Alfred Hitchcock series to bring in our final Chaplin checkpoint: Charlie Chaplin's 1952 drama Limelight. This is Chaplin's swan song, thematically at least--he would still go on to make three more feature films. It features an aging performer and his friendship with a struggling young ballerina. This film is a bit of a departure for the Tramp. It&#3...

This week we take a look into Hitchcock's popular chamber room mystery, Dial M for Murder . Set in a luxurious London flat, a marital drama unfolds that leads into blackmail and murder. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Warner Bros. Picture. Released May 29, 1954. Produced and...

This week we discuss Hitchcock's 1963 thriller about birds attacking humans. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Universal Picture. Released March 28, 1963. Produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Evan Hunter based on the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Starri...

This week, we did into one of the films that helped put Alfred Hitchcock's name on the map to international audiences, the spy thriller The 39 Steps. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Gaumont-British Picture. Released June 6, 1935. Produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Al...

This week we discuss Foreign Correspondent , Hitchcock's spy movie set at the outbreak of World War II and released only shortly after. This is Hitchcock's second American movie. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A United Artists Picture. Produced by Walter Wanger, directed...

This week's podcast is all about jewelry theft in the south of France. The lightly comic caper film, To Catch a Thief was released in 1955 and became one of Grace Kelly's last movies. It is her only pairing with Cary Grant. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A Paramount Pictu...

We're plugging along with our Alfred Hitchcock countdown. This week, we are up to number 16, Hitch's second-to-last movie, Frenzy. Perhaps his most R-Rated movie, this one has Hitchcock returning to his London roots with a grisly serial killer thriller. Enjoy! ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before list...

This week we return to our Hitchcock countdown with his remake of his own The Man Who Knew Too Much . The 1934 original, which we reviewed here about 2 1/2 months ago, was a pleasant, very British kidnapping espionage movie. Here we have a glossy Hollywood remake with big stars, big locations, and big hit song to boot. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan...

We are taking a short break from our Alfred Hitchcock count down in order to check in with Chaplin. This time, we're taking a look at his early classic, The Gold Rush. It's celebrating it's centennial anniversary. This 1925 silent gem follows our hapless hero into the wilderness as the tramp braves the harsh Alaskan winters in a desperate attempt to strike gold.

This week, we tackle Barry Levinson's 1988 drama Rain Man. The movie, which features Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman as estranged brothers--one a cocky yuppie and the other a sweet-natured austic savant, ranks at #54 on our countdown* of Best Picture winners. *What is this list? We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several differe...

This week, we talk about 2012 and its Best Picture winner, Argo , directed by and starring Ben Affleck . It's ranked number 60on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. For more information on the countdown we're using, check out our Description or give a listen to our Trailer. Segments by timestamp: 0:00 - Introduction 7:07 - The other nominees 18:18 - Discussion of Argo 54:...

Episode 51: AMADEUS This week we're making one final trip to the 1980s for Milos Foreman's Amadeus. F. Murray Abraham stars as Salieri, the Austria court composer who recounts his rivalry with the brash young genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played by Tom Hulce. Tune in for our debate over whether the movie is about Mozart or Salieri. It won Best Picture for 1984 and ranks #19 on our countdown.* C...

A spicy episode this week as we argue about the merits of the most recent Best Picture winner, Sian Heder's CODA. It's ranked number 59 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. For more information on the countdown we're using, check out our Description or give a listen to our Trailer. Segments by timestamp: 0:00 - Introduction 3:16 - The other nominees 35:36 - Discussion o...

We are going all the way back to 1935 for this week's podcast. Mutiny on the Bounty only won one Academy Award that year, but it was for Best Picture. This is #56 in our countdown of Best Picture list, based on our unscientific blind ranking. Check out our trailer or its description for further details on the list.  Directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Francois T...

This week's movie is the classic musical My Fair Lady , the Best Picture winner from 1964. Bonnie and Dennis dive into to this one as they continue their countdown of Best Picture winners. This is number 66th according to our non-authoritative list. Enjoy.

This week, we come in with some spicy takes, discussing the 53rd entry in our countdown* of Best Picture winners. The movie is American Beauty, the somewhat polarizing suburban satire starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning, and directed by Sam Mendes.  *What is this list? We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different...

This week, we tackle Hamlet, Laurence Olivier's 1948 adaptation of the William Shakespeare classic. It's ranked number 65 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. Segments by timestamp: 0:00 - Introduction 4:00 - 1948 and the Paramount cases 13:10 - The other nominees 29:05 - Discussion of Hamlet 1:09:51 - What's next and conclusion

This week we psychoanalyze Spellbound, Hitchcock's 1945 film noir mystery dominated by Freudian psychotherapy. Gregory Peck plays an amnesiac doctor and psychiatrist Ingrid Bergman races to unlock his past as z murder investigation threatens to derail his progress. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before lis...

For this week's podcast we set sail for Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 WWII parable, Lifeboat. Set entirely on a lifeboat occupied by several survivors of a U-boat attack in the Atlantic ocean, it's a morality tale set entirely at sea. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A 20th C...

We cover Marnie this week. Hitchcock's controversial 1964 psychodrama about a thief and the man who loves her...err perhaps that should be desires her. Or covets het. We get into it. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A Universal Picture, produced and directed by Alfred...

This week we take a look at the only Alfred Hitchcock movie that was based on fact. The Wrong Man stars Henry Fonda as a night club musician who gets mistakenly identified as an at-large armed thief. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A Warner Brothers Picture, produced and...

This week, we talk about Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 mystery Suspicion . Joan Fontaine plays a woman who suspects her husband, played by Cary Grant, may be more sinister than she may have at first realized. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: An RKO Radio Picture, produced by...

***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A General Film Distributors Picture released on December 2, 1936. Produced by Michael Balcon. Screenplay by Charles Bennett, based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder, and D...