GreenCine Daily reminds us that Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo premiered in San Francisco on this day in 1958. Perhaps Speed Racer can learn a thing or two from a film ahead of its time that opened to less than stellar reviews and box office, only to be reappraised more favorably (thanks to the French) in later years.

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The folks at Hulu would like you to know they have 13 episodes from the American version of the original Speed Racer cartoon available for viewing. Here’s Episode 9: The Most Dangerous Race - Part 1 featuring Snake Oiler and the Car Acrobatic Team. Originally broadcast in 1967.

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For those of you who grow weary of the Speed Racer conversation, here’s a little nugget of news from this morning about Natalie Portman bailing on the new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s oft filmed Wuthering Heights “due to a scheduling conflict with another as-yet unannounced project” according to Variety.
The Hollywood Reporter adds that the announcement [...]

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This is not a full review and it’s guaranteed 100% spoiler free.
So often, movies wither under the expectations you set for them. Either they simply don’t stack up or they take a different path than what you were hoping for. Every once in a while however, a movie comes along that turns out to be [...]

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