I’m slowly making progress through this huge boxset so here's another few films ready for review.  This time it’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and Psycho.

Vertigo and Psycho are often seen as Hitchcock's creative peak, while The Man Who Knew Too Much is actually a remake of his own 1934 film.  Commercially this was also a very successful time for Hitchcock.  The Alfred Hitchcock Presents television program had begun in 1955 and had helped make Hitchcock a famous brand of his own.  Rear Window and To Catch a Thief had also helped cement his commercial appeal.

Memory's a funny thing.  Especially when it comes to your childhood, all of a sudden what was mundane at the time is extraordinary Technicolor today, much more than that though are the things that seemed wonderful and exciting you now never pay a second glance.  Son of Rambow takes you back to an 80's high school in the UK and I'm pretty sure it was exactly like this.

Generally it's only our own thoughts that make it to the frontpage, but traditions are there to be broken every now and then. And this sounds like a good opportunity to do so: Shameless Screen Entertainment are a UK company who release DVDs. This week (April 14) they'll release Femina Ridens a.k.a. The Frightened Woman. Which happens to be one of my favourite 60s Italian cult movies. Or maybe even movies in general. So now I'll hand over the mic (or keyboard) to Shameless...

Shameless Screen Entertainment is proud to announce that their 14th April DVD release of The Frightened Woman (aka Femina Ridens) has been approved by Piero Schivazappa, the director of the film.Witness the ultimate subjugation of a woman to serve the most twisted desires of man in the achingly hip ‘n’ horny Femina Ridens, where the kinkiest urges are played to a deadly conclusion…