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Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' was unleashed on this day in 1960. @mousterpiece.bsky.social explains why its ad campaign was so innovative: crookedmarquee.com/psycho-at-60...

In its first hour, “‘Smooth Talk’ is intimate and lived-in,” @ceilidhann.bsky.social writes. “If that were all the film was, it would still be an astute portrait of feminine adolescence. But then the third act turns up.” crookedmarquee.com/smooth-talk-...

‘Hackers,’ released 30 years ago today, is in many ways a mid-‘90s relic. But it also predicted much about the way we choose to see and present ourselves in the not-so-real world, @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/hackers-was-...

Gamera the giant, fire-breathing turtle “headlined seven films between 1965 and 1971,” @hoodedjustice.bsky.social writes. “Many of them were aimed squarely at children, but that wasn’t the case at the outset.”

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater's chronicle of the making of Godard's “Breathless," is a charming valentine to the creative process, though some of its notes are a touch obvious.

'Shock Treatment,' released on this day in 1981, was one of the period's meditations on mass media that have proven eerily prescient of our contemporary concerns – and Extremely Online culture. crookedmarquee.com/our-video-re...

Peter Jackson was born on this day in 1961. @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social looks back at one of his lesser-known works, a playful slice of fictional film history: crookedmarquee.com/forgotten-si...

Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.” crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

“Graveyard Shift” is “a shameless geek show of Stephen King’s cheapest and ugliest tricks,” @ddayfilms.bsky.social writes, “from a period when he had to make his audience squirm by any means necessary.” crookedmarquee.com/35-years-on-...

“Linklater, no doubt through a combination of research and personal experience, summons up the genuine electricity of the first-time filmmaker, and the excitement is infectious,” @jasondashbailey.com writes of ‘Nouvelle Vague’:

35 years of classier, costlier Stephen King adaptations later, “Graveyard Shift” has aged into a testament to his begrudging talent for horror at its most shamelessly grotesque. crookedmarquee.com/35-years-on-...

On this Halloween Eve, enjoy our spooky-season summary of three key films in the history of Japanese horror: "Onibaba," "Kwaidan," and "House.": crookedmarquee.com/broken-spiri...

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater's chronicle of the making of Godard's “Breathless," is a charming valentine to the creative process, though some of its notes are a touch obvious.