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Coordinating Lipstick and Murder

You know how it goes: meet a girl with great cheekbones, fall in love among the stunning scenery of New Mexico, get married, and watch as people around you start to die. Encounter the title Leave Her to Heaven without seeing the movie, and it has such an angelic ring - it sounds like a movie about a lady with a heart of gold destined for a better place. Looking at Gene Tierney's porcelain doll visage could confirm that idea, but therein lies the trap. Because quite in contrast to something heavenly, this is a movie about a chick -...

Sociopath vs. Sociopath

Black, white and creepy all over: you need only watch the first four minutes of Compulsion to get a serious dose of disturbing behavior. Watch the whole thing and you'll be treated to a story that's so wildly whacked out and psychologically troubling that it's still intriguing and unsettling today, even though it was made in 1959. And - as if this intense psycho thriller could get any creepier - it's inspired by a true story. Directed by Richard Fleischer and Richard D. Zanuck's first foray into producing, Compulsion is based on the rather infamous 1924 Leopold Loeb murder case...

More Than Meets The Eye

The first thing I remember seeing of Peyton Place turned out to be the last shot, where two children on bicycles crisscross their way up a bucolic town street. It was evocative in a sentimental way, and my interest was piqued, but by then the movie was already over. Here at work I sometimes watch movies on our channel out of the corner of my eye, catching scenes out of order and out of context. On another day, I caught a vision of a pretty blond teenage girl in a full blue skirt running through the woods, terrified by a...