Hitchcock's VERTIGO (1958)

Episode 158: For their 1958 movie pick, Evan, Rémy & Marcus go one f’n hour on Hitchcock’s Vertigo—one of cinema’s most unsettling portraits of obsession, desire, and control. They dive into its deeply personal, psychosexual undercurrents: identity as performance, love as projection, and the disturbing dynamics at its core. It’s Hitchcock at his most honest, surreal, and revealing. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: ⁠http://patreon.com/onefuckinghour⁠

Episode 157: Our 50s series continues as Evan, Rémy & Marcus go one f'n hour on Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY (1957), his first true masterwork — a ruthless dissection of the institutions of war and the machinery that reduces human life to expendable parts. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: http://patreon.com/onefuckinghour

Episode 156: Evan, Rémy & Marcus go One F'n Hour on BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) – the ultimate "dark side of the 1950s" movie. Directed by Nicholas Ray and anchored by a fearless performance from James Mason, Bigger Than Life stands as one of the most audacious American films of the 1950s, transforming suburban melodrama into a feverish widescreen critique of middle-class ambition. Ray’s bold CinemaScope compositions and Mason’s operatic intensity turn domestic life into psychological spectacle, making the film a towering, ahead-of-its-time indictment of conformity and the myth of the perfect American household. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon and want access to all of our bonus members-only content: http://patreon.com/onefuckinghour

Episode 155: Evan, Rémy and Marcus go one f'n hour on Charles Laughton's THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955), a nightmarish and macabre American fairy tale where Mother Goose collides with Southern Gothic horror. From Robert Mitchum’s preacher of hate to the film’s eerie storybook imagery, we break down how this singular masterpiece became one of the most haunting movies ever made. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon (⁠https://www.patreon.com/onefuckinghour⁠)

Episode 154: Continuing our One F'n Year series with arguably the most influential film of 1954, Elia Kazan's groundbreaking ON THE WATERFRONT which features game-changing performances from Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, and Rod Steiger. Also, we announce the winner of the "SUDDEN FEAR SNAPPER" contest!! If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: http://patreon.com/onefuckinghour.

Episode 153: Our pick for 1953 is Sam Fuller's PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, a hard-boiled noir thriller that doubles as a sharp critique of 1950s America, examining the paranoia, moral compromise, and social damage wrought by Red Scare hysteria through the collision of petty criminals in the gritty NYC underground. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/onefuckinghour

Episode 152: Our pick for the year 1952 is the underrated / under-seen noir gem SUDDEN FEAR starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance’s one-of-a-kind skull, in which a glamorous marriage descends into a nightmarish game of suspicion, paranoia and revenge. This movie definitely should have be remade in the '90s as an erotic thriller and released on "snapper".  If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: http://patreon.com/onefuckinghour

Episode 151: Our One F’n Year series continues with a 1951 classic, George Stevens’ A PLACE IN THE SUN starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor - a darkly romantic American tragedy about ambition and desire, in which a poor young man’s obsession with wealth and status drives him toward betrayal, murder, and the devastating consequences of trying to escape who he really is. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: ⁠http://patreon.com/onefuckinghour⁠.

Episode 150: Evan, Rémy and Marcus begin their One F'n Year series, which will cover one film per year per episode for the rest of the calendar year commencing with 1950! And what a better monster classic to kick it all off with than Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD, a timeless and masterful macabre indictment of Hollywood. If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/onefuckinghour)

Episode 149: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, MARTY SUPREME, BUGONIA, EDDINGTON. 2025 was a wild, genuinely fascinating year for movies. Evan, Rémy, and Marcus spend two hours breaking down the big releases, the overrated, the underrated and the big question looming over it all: are movies back? If you are able to support Tom Fitzgerald, please sign up for the OFH Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/onefuckinghour⁠