Check out my video for "Flunky: Pawns and Kings."
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...
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Michael W Rickard II
Nov 16, 20181 min read
Interview for Flunky: Pawns and Kings
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:...
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Michael Rickard II
Feb 26, 20186 min read
"Cinema's Secrets to Suspense and Tantalizing Thrillers"
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...
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by Michael Rickard II
Dec 27, 20174 min read
"'Rear Window': How to Turn a Short Story into a 112 Minute Film. Part Four of Four.&qu
Another important cinematic element is dramatic performances. Francois Truffaut observed about Hitchcock that "The neutrality you expect...
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Michael Rickard II
Nov 6, 20176 min read
"'Rebecca': Hitchcock's First American Film, but Is It Really Hitchcock?"
Editor's Note: Here's a journal I wrote nearly three years ago about Alfred Hitchcock's film Rebecca. Like most articles here, this...
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Michael Rickard II
Aug 29, 20175 min read
"The Day the Running Stopped: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of 'The Fugitive's&#
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...
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Michael Rickard II
Aug 22, 20175 min read
"The Day the Running Stopped: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of 'The Fugitive's&#
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...
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Michael Rickard II
Jul 26, 20172 min read
"Piercing the Veil: The Narrator in 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'"
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...
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Michael Rickard II
Feb 6, 20178 min read
"Rear Window" : How Alfred Hitchcock's Intermediate Adaptation of "It Had to Be M
Hitchcock also uses photographic images to show symbols related to the film’s themes. Many of them are Jeff’s photographic tools such as...
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by Michael Rickard II
Jan 26, 20178 min read
Rear Window: How Alfred Hitchcock’s Intermediate Adaptation of “It Had to Be Murder” Took Film-Makin
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a masterfully worked cinematic adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to Be Murder”...
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