OFFICIAL SITE OF AUTHOR MICHAEL RICKARD

Copyright 2019 by Michael W. Rickard II I've just released a promotional video for my book, Flunky: Pawns and Kings. Let me know what you...

The good folks over at Canadian Bulldog's World (whose site I write for) were kind enough to interview me about my upcoming book, Flunky:...

Filmgoers looking for a good scare need not go to a horror film as there are all sorts of scares to be found in the genre known as the...

Another important cinematic element is dramatic performances. Francois Truffaut observed about Hitchcock that "The neutrality you expect...

Editor's Note: Here's a journal I wrote nearly three years ago about Alfred Hitchcock's film Rebecca. Like most articles here, this...

August 29, 1967 was a highly anticipated date for television viewers as it promised the end to Dr. Richard Kimble’s four-year flight from...

August 22, 1967 marked an epoch in television history when the TV series The Fugitive prepared to close out its four-year run with a...

Here's a blast from the past (2015), an essay I wrote on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” (hereafter...

Hitchcock also uses photographic images to show symbols related to the film’s themes. Many of them are Jeff’s photographic tools such as...

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a masterfully worked cinematic adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to Be Murder”...