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Book Review: The Young Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Masterclass, by Tony Lee Moral

The Young Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Masterclass  explores Alfred Hitchcock's approach to filmmaking from almost every angle, breaking the process down into its essential elements. These include scripting, casting, working with actors, camera work, editing and set design. The author also looks at the director's use of sound, music - including both music scores and diegetic music - and even film promotion and marketing, appropriately calling Hitchcock not only the master of suspense, but also "the master of marketing". The book also looks at Hitchcock's working methods and preferences, including his working with screenwriters to develop stories into scripts, his storyboarding of particular sequences and even his visualising of a film before it was made, with Hitchcock often claiming that actually making the film was the dull part.
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The 12 Best Peter Sellers Films

Peter Sellers was one of the great comedy stars, and one of the great comic character actors, of the 20th century. Originally coming to prominence in the 1950s in the BBC radio series The Goon Show , his remarkable repertoire of voices soon found him coming to the attention of film makers. 
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Movie Quiz: On the Beat

Yes, it's the return of Movie Quiz, back after a break of an amazing 3 years.  This time we have 12 films all featuring famous actors playing policemen or women. How many can you name?  I'm rating this quiz as moderately difficult. The answers are at the bottom of the page.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Three years after its unexpected revival for the big screen in  Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979,  Star Trek  delivered its first film sequel,  Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , a film usually considered to be the best in the series and one of the highlights of the Star Trek canon.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013)

Tom Clancy's fictional CIA analyst Jack Ryan gets a fifth film outing in  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit , this time played by a new actor in Chris Pine. The film begins in 2001 with the young Jack Ryan studying at the London School of Economics, presented in this film as a sort of leafy parkland campus in central London. Galvanised by the 9/11 terror attacks, Ryan decides to serve his country and enlists in the US Marines. He is later injured when the helicopter he is travelling in is hit by a missile strike in Afghanistan in 2003. He subsequently undergoes rehabilitation at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland, where he meets attractive medical student Cathy Muller (Keira Knightley).  Around the same time, Ryan is also approached by the CIA in the form of Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner), who has been impressed by Ryan's exciting works on "Liquidity Events in Post-Soviet Markets" and his reports on Russian traffic patterns. Apparently. Ryan is then recruited by the CI
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