I just watched Anthony Hopkins as Hitch in a film which I believe was called simply Hitchcock but, rather than being the biopic that implies, it was entirely about the making of Psycho and the battles he had with the studio and the censors to get it passed and distributed and so on.
The film was fairly slight in all honesty and arguably there isn't that much dramatic tension in a film which turns on how successful Psycho would be SPOILER it was pretty successful. Yet I enjoyed the setting, the performances and so on. Best described as light relief really, nothing more than that, but compared to yer average film on telly here - which they seem to programme by scouring the lower reaches of Rotten Tomatoes - it was an absolutely towering work of genius.
One thing though, I would have thought that there might have been some mention of Peeping Tom while they were discussing the viability of Psycho, I believe that that came out shortly before and would have merited a mention. At one point Helen Mirren describes Hitch as a peeping Tom which made me wonder if it was a reference... but then why would they put in such a thing like that?
The other day there was The Lincoln Lawyer on telly; again, probably made to look good by the dreck it rubs shoulders with, it's a fairly workaday thriller with Matthew Mconaghey (sp?) as a slightly dodgy defence lawyer who has no office, but works from a chauffeur driven Lincoln (it's a type of car apparently) with plates reading NTGLTY - amongst the least interesting character quirks I've heard in some time, but the film itself in which he has to defend bland rich kid Ryan Philippe (really stretching himself with this part) from a charge of assault had a pretty decent plot I thought with a number of twists that I didn't see coming and which felt plausible and uncontrived enough to satisfy.
Good story well told in short. I'm not saying you should drop everything and watch it now, but if you're on a plane or similar circumstance and it's one of the options then you could do a lot worse.