Top Ten Hitchcock Films

Do yourself a favor and avoid embarrassing costume parties and rent some Hitchock movies. It's not gory, give you nightmares kind of scary mind you, but it's so much more sinister. Hitchcock is all about the evil that lurks beneath the surface of America.

My Completely Un-Scientific and Very Personal List of Hitch's Ten Best Films

1. Shadow of a Doubt
Great cast -- probably one of the most expertly cast movies ever made. Joseph Cotton plays the most likeable villian I've ever seen, which makes him so much more menacing. There's uncomfortable sexual tension with his niece, played by the always wonderful Teresa Wright. This pic is rumored to be Hitchcock's personal favorite.

2. Notorious
Chemistry between Grant and Bergman is off the charts. This may be Hitch's best film, despite my obvious love and preference for Shadow of Doubt.

3. Psycho
Still frigtening and disturbing after all of these years

4. Rope
The film looks like one whole shot. It's really 12 long shots, but the cuts are seemless. It's also about a pair of possibly homosexual, definately brillant students serve dinner on top of a corpse.

5. Strangers on a Train
Wonderful performances, terrific use of shadow and light

6. Marnie
Hitch goes to extremes (sometimes comically) to communicate Marnie's inner turmoil. Tippi Hendren gives a great performance in this.

7. Vertigo
If all you know of Jimmy Stewart is It's A Wonderful Life, you must see him as a violent and obessive cop in the film considered to be Hitch's masterpiece.

8. North by Northwest
So many scenes have been lifted from this movie, but it's more fun than thrilling.

9. Frenzy
Incredibly disturbing and violent, perhaps because it is less stylized than Hitch's other films. Or maybe it's because it's about a mudering rapist with a tie fetish.

10. The Birds
A classic that, like North by Northwest, has had so many scenes lifted from it.

Just Friends

Is it wrong that I want to see this movie? I'm sure it sucks -- it stars Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart. But it does have that cute guy from Joan of Arcadia (Joan's boyfriend, Adam) and Ryan Reynolds is totally hot. I'm sure I know how it ends (Ryan finds that even 100 lbs lighter Amy Smart still thinks of him as a brother), but who cares . . . I'm totally netflixing it.

In Living Color repeats

They are fast becoming my favorite way to end a day. BET is running the episodes at night at like 11:30. I'm not sure about the time since I TiVo everything now and have no concept of when things are actually on.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it as much now as I did when I first watched it. And it's a bonus that now so many cast members are super famous (Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Lopez). You get to see them with bad hair, big butts, or just generally making asses out of themselves. FUN!

The bad clothes, the dated jokes, the great music, the Fly girls . . . this show still rocks. And I think Keenan Ivory Wayans should be getting credit for making the Chappelle's Show possible. After all, he did Rick James long before Chappelle did.