This review is from Alan K. Rode. ------------ Hollywood was taking a standing eight count in 1954. The Paramount anti-trust consent agreement...
But available on DVD, November 9. From a review courtesy of Amazon.com: "'Stuck!': A Tribute to the Way It Was" by Amos Lassen 'Stuck!' is a...
"This story is told against the background of political unrest in a city in Northern Ireland. It is not concerned with the struggle between the law...
Blonde Ice (1948) by Guy Savage “I once said I couldn’t figure you out. I can now. You’re not a normal woman. You’re not warm. You’re cold like...
By Andrew Nette American crime films in the seventies and early eighties were littered with the damaged veterans of the Vietnam War. They...
Romantic Obsession with a Woman Who Never Existed: Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece is loaded with psychological twists and turns...
The Square (2008) By Andrew Nette Tales of money, betrayal, lust and murder set in the underbelly of rural small town life are a major thematic...
After 25 years I revisited To Live and Die In L.A. (1985), William Friedkin's cynical, fatalistic, hardboiled and high-energy crime noir about...
“After all the assorted prizefight pictures that have been paraded across the screen—after all the pugs and muggs and chorus girls and double-crosses...
“Let me tell you about you, Al. That badge and a few law books have turned you into a nut. You don’t like anybody. You don’t believe anybody. You...
Expectations of Female Behaviour in Bedelia (1946) by Guy Savage “I was naughty, wasn’t I?” The British B noir film Bedelia (1946) is an...
Divided Loyalties in The Brothers Rico (1957) by Guy Savage “It was a set-up. They put a leash around my neck. They used me like a bloodhound to...
BAD NEWS IN THE FLESH: TOUCH OF EVIL By David N. Meyer Maybe Charlton Heston got suckered. Maybe when he insisted that Welles be hired to direct...
In 1945’s Cornered Dick Powell plays a man exhausted, angry, and with little hope for the future. Though almost fatally marred by its serpentine...
Once you're dead, every inch of you will be searched. Not just your body, but all your belongings. The things you have hidden in your house or...
The vicious hierarchy of the animal kingdom is sometimes difficult to fully grasp as we humans are thoughtful creatures with characteristics...
By Wheeler Winston Dixon Republic Pictures was most famous for its Saturday morning serials, but also churned out a long series of 60-minute...
By Wallace Stroby Framed is an easy film to respect, but a hard one to like. It’s an iconic ‘70s revenge drama, with a hard-boiled script that...
“I’m 60% legitimate,” brags William Conrad (as the slimy nightclub owner Castro) in Robert Parrish’s stunning debut film, Cry Danger (1951). That...
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Tom Neal (Al), Ann Savage (Vera) In a phenomenon akin to the one wherein refrigerated leftovers seem to taste better...
Cat People from 1942 is a film noir disguised as a horror film. Filled with the same visual style and sense of fatalism that dominated film noir...
Illegal Entry is a straight forward crime programmer with a couple strong doses of irony, but more on those later. Put out by Universal in the summer...
For those of you who haven't encountered the reviews of Bill McVicar on IMDb, you're in for a treat. McVicar was the master of the smart,...
Money Movers (1979) A classic noir from down under. By Andrew Nette There’s a lot of justified hype about the period of Australian film from...
The Hot Spot: The Drifter Caught Between Two Women by Guy Savage “Yes, indeed. I’ve found my level, and I’m living it.” Based on the novel,...
1944 was a big year for film noir. Early film noirs Double Indemnity, Laura and Murder, My Sweet were all released near the end of '44 and all were...
Landscapes and physical environments were undeniably integral aspects of many classic film noirs. They seem indespensible in conveying the crucial...
Too Late for Tears: A study of the pathological housewife by Guy Savage Too Late for Tears (1949) has all the elements of my favorite type of film...
Monday, October 06, 2008 Road House (1948) Written by Raven Road House, the fifth and last of the noirs directed by Jean Negulesco is...
another one from the archive: This week’s Film Noir of the Week is Val Lewton’s The Seventh Victim (1943). Last week, Don Malcom wrote about...
Double Indemnity is the perfect mix of talents that combined to create one of the best films of all time. The movie is based on a brilliant novella...
Hi All, I go to The Birkbeck College film shows on Tuesdays. The film shows are free. The Birkbeck is In Bloomsbury, London. The movies are...
The Postman Always Rings Twice has one of the most famous character introductions in the history of film. John Garfield, playing the drifter...
Although my book, Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror, was published before my book, Mitchum, it was actually written later. The book on Robert...
“Don’t you use any pain killers?” Yakuza gangster Matsunaga (Toshirō Mifune). “Not for hoodlums like you.” Dr. Sanada (Takashi Shimura), as he...
Dead Reckoning (1947) Errors in Judgement in Dead Reckoning by Guy Savage “Didn’t I tell you all dames are the same with their faces washed.” ...
As I was going down the list in my head to confirm that Hangover Square indeed met some proper criteria to be considered a film noir, on paper it...
Never Let Go (1960) by Guy Savage “Every time something goes wrong, that bloody salesman crops up.” Never Let Go, a superb British noir film,...
Murder--A Matter of Luck and Timing: Elevator to the Gallows (1958) by Guy Savage “We’ll only be together in the headlines.” Director Louis...
Henry Levin never met an American film genre that he didn’t like or – maybe more accurately – that didn’t like him. Levin was a genial extrovert...
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