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You're jamming my frequencies.

I may not always be right, but I never will.

Hello and welcome to Maximum of the film, episode 444.

I'm your host, Kevin Avery, and joining me as always.

He's a brilliant film critic and author.

And if he were the star of his own Marvel movie, I think a superhero name would be

Captain Criterion.

It's Alonzo Dorolde. What's Good?

What's Good is the very talented Stephen Rbello, who his book, Hitchcock in the Making of Psycho, was

turned into the Hitchcock movie. He recently gave us Chris Cross, which is a great book about

the making and subtext of strangers on a train. And now he's sort of turned to the corner

on the master of suspense. His new book is called Hitchcockian thrillers,

and it's basically decades' worth of thrillers that borrow a little something from Alfred

Hitchcock, whether it's the wrong man accused or the will he kiss me or kill me romantic thriller.

A lot of directors have taken up the mantle in different ways and different

genres to tell movies in the style of a la Alfred Hitchcock. And Revella does a really great job

of digging into them. You're going to discover movies you never heard of before. You're

going to maybe take a look at ones you know and love in a new light. He's a terrific film writer that way, and that's what he does.

And so, yeah, very excited. He's got a new book out. That is very cool. I have one cool Hitchcock story, and that is, I think the first time I went to Snesbia, we saw North by Northwest. Oh, fun. and I went to use the bathroom, and so I got up from our little area.

And... Oh, fun. And I went to use the bathroom, and so I got up from our little area.

And as I walked to the little porta-potties or whatever, I saw we were, I don't know, how I managed to figure this out, we were sitting right behind Hitchcock's Grave.

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