This Sunday, TCM's showing 24 hours of Paul Newman, and movie nerds, like football fans, probably have their tailgating all planned out. Slurp up spaghetti and Newman's Own Sockarooni sauce while Hud drinks and disappoints (6 p.m.). Microwave a bag of Newman's Own Light Butter Popcorn as Cool Hand Luke chokes down 50 hardboiled eggs (10 p.m.). Might we also suggest Newman's Own Organics Dried Fruit Berry Blend, a bowl of granola, and Torn Curtain (10 a.m.)? It's an Alfred Hitchcok thriller about a physicist who fake-defects and the fiancée who, not in on the trick, bumbles after him through the Iron Curtain.  read more »

We're feeling a little ‘duh' this afternoon after reading news that a lawsuit has been brought against Stephen Spielberg, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures claiming that their film Disturbia (the surprise 2007 hit starring Shia LaBoeuf as a teen voyeur) ripped off the Hitchcock masterpiece Rear Window. The L.A. Times (via the AP) reports that "The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, says "Disturbia" copied a short story Cornell Woolrich wrote in 1942 and the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie that starred James Stewart and Grace Kelly and was based on the story."

Was it only a matter of time until this happened?  read more »

Another good way of killing time: doing random YouTube searches for old movie scenes and trailers. And the good folks over at the Times Online have just given us a hit list. Earlier this week the London paper posted Alfred Hitchcock's 50 most memorable moments, complete with a little description of each and a YouTube link to the scene in question (or, in some cases, as much of the scene as was available.) And while the list is incredibly generic at times (the shower scene in Psycho is No. 1) there are still tons of great choices on here to get excited about.  read more »

Monday: Notorious
Some say Rear Window. Others, Vertigo. We say Notorious when asked to name our favorite Hitchcock film. Ingrid Bergman plays a boozy, sad beauty who must redeem herself—and her family name—by turning spy for government agent Cary Grant. The action takes place in 40s Rio de Janiero, where Bergman must marry a suspicious German in order to turn up secrets for Grant, who is both in love with her, and repulsed by her unladylike behaviors (which we found, for the record, totally awesome). [TCM, 8 p.m.]  read more »