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    Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why Rear Window Remains the Director's Definitive Film

    Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In Rear Window, he found a new vision.

    April 13, 2021  By Edward White
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    The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked

    Once you eliminate the least compelling Sherlock Holmes performances, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the best.

    April 8, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Ian Pearce, Location Manager for Lewis, Talks Filming in Oxford with Frederick Weisel

    "Few mystery series owed as much as Lewis did to its locations, where crimes were committed and investigated among the staid, historic Oxford colleges"

    April 5, 2021  By Frederick Weisel
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    The Relationships Were What Made 'Justified' Truly Special—They're Why We're Still Watching Today

    Over six seasons, 'Justified' explored the complex, twisted roots of Elmore Leonard's distinct vision of Harlan County.

    April 2, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?

    Spanish avengers, cross-continent serial killers, and a giant ocean liner carrying a locked-door mystery.

    April 2, 2021  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s Victim

    This classic noir, starring icon Dirk Bogarde, uses the conventions of melodrama and detective cinema to explore a persisting crime: the extortion of queer men

    April 1, 2021  By Victoria Wiet
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    Revisiting The Anderson Tapes, Sidney Lumet's Wisely Paranoid Heist Film, 50 Years Later

    It was the first film that commented so boldly on the pervasiveness of electronic surveillance in our lives. Exactly one year after its release, a break-in at the Watergate Hotel would reveal just how prophetic it really was.

    March 26, 2021  By Jesse Pasternack
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    Comfort in the Uncomfortable: How Christopher Nolan Uses Noir to Get Weird

    For decades, Nolan has been playing with the tropes of noir and daring viewers to go somewhere unexpected.

    March 26, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Hitchcock Presents: A Brief History of the Weird, Wild Hitchcock Shows That Once Dominated TV

    In the 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock was everywhere, and his anthology series became a hotbed for young talent and strange stories.

    March 24, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    That Time Scientists Discovered a Creature in Loch Ness and Then Realized It Was a Sunken Prop from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

    An amazing example of life imitating art, concerning a movie about how the Loch Ness Monster isn't really the Loch Ness Monster.

    March 22, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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