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‘Bates Motel’: Why you should watch it

2013-03-18 08:22:54

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'Bates Motel' opens for business on A&E

2013-03-14 07:00:00

The big screen's most formidable mama's boy is coming to TV. Norman Bates, the deranged character of "Psycho" fame, is proving movie stars aren't the only ones hunkering down to the small screen — some of cinema's fictional personas are also...

'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals

2012-12-24 13:36:00

This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Mis�rables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...

Around Town: Anime and the real Mae

2012-01-26 16:38:20

'The Dead Celebrity Cookbook' and the history of fatty cooking

2012-02-10 10:54:40

Scarlett Johansson lands role as ‘Psycho’s’ Janet Leigh

2012-03-03 16:39:40

Jessica Biel nabs coveted 'Hitchcock' role as Vera Miles

2012-03-21 21:40:43

Around Town: Celebrate Easter with Jimmy Stewart and Harvey

2012-04-05 16:39:14

Anthony Hopkins vanishes (mostly) into 'Hitchcock'

2012-04-25 21:37:55

Little-seen Stephen Sondheim TV musical headed to DVD

2010-10-20 16:32:54

Sports Legend Revealed: Did Pam Anderson get her big break when shown on camera at a Canadian League football game?

2010-11-23 16:33:00

Pernell Roberts dies at 81; played eldest son on TV's 'Bonanza'

2010-01-25 22:02:00

Pernell Roberts, a versatile actor best remembered for his portrayal of the handsome, eldest Cartwright son on the classic television western "Bonanza" and later as the lead character in the medical drama "Trapper John, M.D.," died at his Malibu home...

Why:A "contemporary prequel" to the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic "Psycho," "Bates Motel" boasts a first-rate cast and an intriguingly creepy expansion of the original story's universe.

2013-03-11 00:00:00

Alfred Hitchcock's movies rarely got their due from Oscar (and the director himself famously never won), but that still doesn't explain why Perkins' marvelously disturbing portrait of insanity in 1960's landmark "Psycho" (a film nominated for four Oscars overall) was overlooked at the time.

2013-02-22 13:00:37

The Good: "Psycho" is one of the best films ever made. The Bad: There were three follow-ups, each worse than the last. Can you believe Anthony Perkins kept reprising the role of Norman Bates? The Ugly: The shot-for-shot remake of the original was awful. Sorry, Gus Van Sant.

2013-02-14 00:00:00