“Based Upon A True Story”: Leopold & Loeb & Hitchcock’s ROPE (‘48)

PSYCHO (‘60), Ed Gein, and the Marketing of a Horror Classic

REAR WINDOW (‘54): A Tension-Filled Study in Voyeurism

The Villisca Axe Murders at 105 Years

We artists owe the victims historical accuracy without undue…

Aronofsky’s mother! : a psychological reading

Warning: I could not effect this interpretation without including a few…

Lust Murder, “Sequence Killers,” and Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ (2017)

The Heist Film: ‘The Killing’ (’56) & “Reservoir Dogs’ (‘92)

Marilyn Monroe & Film Noir Pt. II: “Don’t Bother to Knock” (1952)

A Mother’s Love
by Helen Steiner Rice

A Mother’s love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away . . .
It is patient and forgiving
when all others…

Marilyn Monroe & Film Noir Pt. I : Her Death was 55 Years Ago This Aug. 5