Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner
@mrneilalcock.bsky.social
Filmy words man. Buster Keaton, Hitchcock, postwar British film, Ealing, Basil Dearden, Hawks, Wyler, Bogart, Kubrick, Bond, Scorsese.
HITCHOLOGY: A FILM-BY-FILM GUIDE TO THE STYLE AND THEMES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK out now: neilalcock.com/hitchology
HITCHOLOGY: A FILM-BY-FILM GUIDE TO THE STYLE AND THEMES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK out now: neilalcock.com/hitchology
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the movie buff in your life? Mr. Hitchcock would like to suggest my book HITCHOLOGY. And who am I to argue?
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More: neilalcock.com/hitchology/
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the movie buff in your life? Mr. Hitchcock would like to suggest my book HITCHOLOGY. And who am I to argue?
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HeyUGuys
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Empire
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Total Film
Hive bit.ly/3x1afNO
Waterstones bit.ly/48Tz5fB
Amazon amzn.to/48RgAbL
More: neilalcock.com/hitchology/
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HeyUGuys
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Empire
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Total Film
Hive bit.ly/3x1afNO
Waterstones bit.ly/48Tz5fB
Amazon amzn.to/48RgAbL
More: neilalcock.com/hitchology/
OK, enough of you wanged on about this to convince me to bag it in the @indicator.bsky.social sale. So for my first viewing, 67-min UK theatrical cut, or 81-min US cut?
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
OK, enough of you wanged on about this to convince me to bag it in the @indicator.bsky.social sale. So for my first viewing, 67-min UK theatrical cut, or 81-min US cut?
Watched Basil Dearden's 1954 boxing drama The Square Ring today. Robert Beatty wasn't in quite the same shape as De Niro in Raging Bull, but a late scene where, already battered half to death, he faces an oncoming pummelling, struck me as a possible visual inspiration for Dearden fan Marty.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Watched Basil Dearden's 1954 boxing drama The Square Ring today. Robert Beatty wasn't in quite the same shape as De Niro in Raging Bull, but a late scene where, already battered half to death, he faces an oncoming pummelling, struck me as a possible visual inspiration for Dearden fan Marty.
Heads up! David Lean's first film In Which We Serve (co-directed by and starring Noël Coward) is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully iPlayer thereafter), and it is a *belter*. Been watching a lot of WW2 films this year and this is one of the very best.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Heads up! David Lean's first film In Which We Serve (co-directed by and starring Noël Coward) is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully iPlayer thereafter), and it is a *belter*. Been watching a lot of WW2 films this year and this is one of the very best.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
That crackersness in a nutshell:
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That crackersness in a nutshell:
Two years since the release of Killers Of The Flower Moon, an actual Martin Scorsese film which, if you're the kind of person who wants a legit physical media copy rather than a pirated or suspiciously imported version, you still can't own because Apple refuse to release it or let anyone else do so.
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Two years since the release of Killers Of The Flower Moon, an actual Martin Scorsese film which, if you're the kind of person who wants a legit physical media copy rather than a pirated or suspiciously imported version, you still can't own because Apple refuse to release it or let anyone else do so.
Watched a lot of postwar British cinema this year, so excited to dig into this Eureka box set offering up an alternative point of view. What's the German equivalent of The Lavender Hill Mob?
October 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Watched a lot of postwar British cinema this year, so excited to dig into this Eureka box set offering up an alternative point of view. What's the German equivalent of The Lavender Hill Mob?
An eternal favourite
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
An eternal favourite
😂
October 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
😂
Was excited for Radiohead x Nosferatu but it didn't really work for me. Often too on-the-nose with the syncing, so loud as to be a distraction from the story, and inexplicable posterisation effects that make Nozzo look like he's less into the blood of the innocent than big bowls of Ready Brek
October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Was excited for Radiohead x Nosferatu but it didn't really work for me. Often too on-the-nose with the syncing, so loud as to be a distraction from the story, and inexplicable posterisation effects that make Nozzo look like he's less into the blood of the innocent than big bowls of Ready Brek
Why does an unstoppable killing machine flinch like a baby when it bashes down its victims' doors? Scared of a bit of flying woodwork are you diddums, ah bless
October 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Why does an unstoppable killing machine flinch like a baby when it bashes down its victims' doors? Scared of a bit of flying woodwork are you diddums, ah bless
Seeing Hitchcock's Sabotage at a picture house (literally a Picturehouse) next week like it's 1936, absolute madness. You too could be watching great old Hitchcock films at a cinema RIGHT NOW!* www.picturehouses.com/blog/hitchcock
*probably not RIGHT NOW, depends what time you're reading this
*probably not RIGHT NOW, depends what time you're reading this
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Seeing Hitchcock's Sabotage at a picture house (literally a Picturehouse) next week like it's 1936, absolute madness. You too could be watching great old Hitchcock films at a cinema RIGHT NOW!* www.picturehouses.com/blog/hitchcock
*probably not RIGHT NOW, depends what time you're reading this
*probably not RIGHT NOW, depends what time you're reading this
We be Hillin'
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We be Hillin'
Had a great chat with @hopeylivliv.bsky.social and Rose Butler from Picturehouses about their current season of Hitchcock belters and bangers. Available on pods of all shapes and sizes, but here's one: picturehouse.podbean.com/e/hitchcock-...
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Had a great chat with @hopeylivliv.bsky.social and Rose Butler from Picturehouses about their current season of Hitchcock belters and bangers. Available on pods of all shapes and sizes, but here's one: picturehouse.podbean.com/e/hitchcock-...
Talking 'cock again in the new issue of Picturehouse Recommends magazine. A season of Hitchy delights is coming to a Picturehouse near you soon!
September 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Talking 'cock again in the new issue of Picturehouse Recommends magazine. A season of Hitchy delights is coming to a Picturehouse near you soon!
I genuinely read this BFI film listing three times in slack-jawed disbelief before I realised it says "fraudulence" and not "flatulence"
August 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I genuinely read this BFI film listing three times in slack-jawed disbelief before I realised it says "fraudulence" and not "flatulence"
Happy Bank Holiday Monday to all who celebrate correctly
August 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy Bank Holiday Monday to all who celebrate correctly
What's your favourite Terence Stamp film? Mine will always be D-Day at White House
August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
What's your favourite Terence Stamp film? Mine will always be D-Day at White House
Happy Alma Reville Day to all who celebrate
August 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Happy Alma Reville Day to all who celebrate
Stumbled across this comedy-drama in my current binge of wartime / postwar British films and I swear to God I cannot recommend it highly enough. Funny, suspenseful and saucy, with a scene where a Scottish woman punches a Nazi woman out cold, which beats anything I ever saw Captain America do.
August 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Stumbled across this comedy-drama in my current binge of wartime / postwar British films and I swear to God I cannot recommend it highly enough. Funny, suspenseful and saucy, with a scene where a Scottish woman punches a Nazi woman out cold, which beats anything I ever saw Captain America do.
Also bagged a sweet pile of British beauties from ye olde days. God bless @cexofficial.bsky.social and all who sell this kind of stuff to them.
August 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Also bagged a sweet pile of British beauties from ye olde days. God bless @cexofficial.bsky.social and all who sell this kind of stuff to them.
Cheeky mini haul from the excellent David's Bookshop in Letchworth, including @helenlohara.bsky.social's newie 🙌
August 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Cheeky mini haul from the excellent David's Bookshop in Letchworth, including @helenlohara.bsky.social's newie 🙌
A treat for hot and sweaty Bond fans in London this Sunday: stay cool while watching Sean Connery getting hot and sweaty in Dr. No, on 4K in Picturehouse Central's biggest, loudest screen. I'm trusting them to open the curtains while the film's on www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
July 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A treat for hot and sweaty Bond fans in London this Sunday: stay cool while watching Sean Connery getting hot and sweaty in Dr. No, on 4K in Picturehouse Central's biggest, loudest screen. I'm trusting them to open the curtains while the film's on www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
New Hunger Games villain name just dropped
July 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
New Hunger Games villain name just dropped