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Bates Motel (SoHo, 8.30 Wednesdays) “The new season picks up some time after the fourth-season episodes, which climaxed with Norman killing Norma … Norman is nuts, and, as in Hitchcock’s movie, imagines that she’s still alive. And so we are treated to [Vera] Farmiga’s wonderful performance as a pushy, sarcastic, sexy, needy, and ferally strong woman imposing […]

A Blu-ray box set of 15 Alfred Hitchcock movies, complete with 15 hours of bonus content, will be released on October 3. NZ pricing has still to be confirmed but expect to pay around $150-$170 given at least one Australian retailer has listed it for $A130. Only two of the movies, North by Northwest (1959) […]

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John McIntire. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano. Score: Bernard Hermann. Cinematography: John L Russell. The clarity of the 50-year-old, black-and-white footage in this Blu-ray edition of the slasher-trash prototype, starring ‘80s scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis’ mum, Janet Leigh, is more startling than the […]

Universal Pictures NZ is soon to release on Blu-ray 50th anniversary editions of two of the studio’s genre greats: Psycho and Spartacus. Alfred Hitchcock’s groundbreaking serial killer classic initially will be sold through only JB Hi-Fi stores, from September 1, but will widen to other retailers from December 1. The Gladiator of its era, Stanley […]