Enjoyable "Hitchcock"

Speaking of one of the great B&W movies of all time... (Psycho, of course...)

UPDATED:

We liked quite a lot about Hitchcock.

(Here's a fun piece about the film. Be sure to look at the slide shows, w/ fascinating details on the makeup/prosthetics.)

With Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Helen Mirren as the leads, how could it go too wrong?

Hopkins is amazing as Hitch. Same goes for Mirren. They are terrific together as well.

It is, to a great degree, a dutiful movie version of the source book, hitting the points like:  what a pro and genial good-sport Janet Leigh was, and how well she and Hitch got on; how he hyped the movie so effectively, and so forth.

It has dutiful documentary aspects, but Hopkins is brilliant; his scene conducting the audience's reaction to the shower killing is a gem.

Great looking film too.

And...

...The movies would've been SO boring without Hitchcock.

We also just saw Strangers on a Train on Blu ray; long one of our favorites, in HD it is even more amazing. (Daughter Patricia Hitchcock is terrific in this brilliant film.)