Cynical attitudes, sexual motivations, private eyes, aging boxers, hapless grifters, femme fatales and more. Edgar Chaput looks back at the history of film noir.
Friday Film Noir Believability is a funny thing in movies. When two film fans enter a debate…
15 Years Later: Brick It speaks to a director’s qualities as a storyteller that even before his…
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Friday Film Noir Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) calmly walks along the big city sidewalk towards an as…
Friday Film Noir Without question, Robert Siodmak was one of the great stylistic directors working in Hollywood…
Friday Film Noir Dorothy ‘Dot’ Burton (Faye Emerson) and her trio of male cohorts (including a young…
Friday Film Noir Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) and Captain Thomas McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) could not be more…
Friday (neo)Noir A History of Violence marked Cronenberg’s stunning venture into high-minded drama… Set in Millbrook, Indiana,…
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Friday Film Noir White Heat has James Cagney so hot not even the world can stop him……
Friday Film Noir Ports, much like airports and border crosses, are among the most important gates through…
Friday Film Noir Travelling by bus through the muggy Florida Keys, Maj. Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) finally…
Friday Film Noir A detective is obsessed with a case, tracking down either a killer or a…
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
It’s a crime saga that will shock you. It’s a mystery that will keep you guessing. It’s a thriller that will keep you riveted.
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Two Korean War veterans re-unite to pull off a heist at a San Francisco airport but find themselves running for their lives.
Friday Film Noir Strangers in the Night mixes style and substance in a very eerie tale Coping…
Lover without a heart…killer without a conscience!
Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble.