Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.