Review: The Burnt Orange Heresy
There’s a moment in The Burnt Orange Heresy when everything goes wrong and the film starts to truly unravel our anti-hero. It is quite ...
Tag: Noir
Featured
C What’s On: The Criterion Channel’s July 2020 Lineup
Another month and another wave of new content hits the Criterion Channel! Keeping indoors during the heat and global pandemic, the Channel is cooking ...
NYC: Third annual Kit Film Noir Festival announces movie lineup (March 25-29)
Now in its third year, the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival returns to Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts. ...
Movies
Review: The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake is the kind of movie you’re probably going to know you’ll enjoy before we even see the first shot. ...
Trailers
Blood on Her Name trailer offers some tense backcountry noir
Here we have a sweaty, low-income slice of noir with a trailer for Blood on Her Name. There’s something about Southern Gothic imagery ...
Review: The Good Liar
For the most part, I was completely engrossed by The Good Liar. A watertight plot, compelling performances from Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren ...
David Fincher and Robert Towne are developing a Chinatown series
Well if it has to happen, I suppose a Chinatown series from David Fincher and original screenwriter Robert Towne is the way it ...
Enough CGI blockbusters, cinema is returning to its roots
I don’t need to direct you to Avengers: Endgame’s historic $1.3 billion opening weekend this summer to show that we’ve been populating a computer-generated era. Even the ...
Reviews
NYFF Review: The Whistlers
For as copious and dime-a-dozen film noir crime stories were at a time, and how prolific their influence has remained over the decades, ...
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley might add Cate Blanchett
It had been rumored that Leonardo DiCaprio was circling Guillermo del Toro’s Shape of Water follow-up film, though those rumors seemed to wither ...
Motion Pixels: The movies to watch before playing Judgement
Motion Pixels is a series of haphazard articles hoping to link the passions of gaming and films. Through recommendations, general chicanery, and, sometimes, ...
Trailers
Marshmallows rejoice, first full trailer for Veronica Mars reboot is here
We are so close to Veronica Mars relaunching that there is no way this is a dream. I’ve been a big fan of the ...