Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

Bref, L’Arme Fatale 3 est un excellent film d’action, porté par un duo toujours aussi attachant et des scènes spectaculaires. Cependant, il manque un antagoniste marquant et un scénario ...

cet excellent film d'aventure a failli lancer une grande franchise d'animation "J'aimerais tellement qu’il disparaisse du film !" : 33 ans après, le réalisateur de Maman, j'ai raté l'avion ...

Fans of the film noir genre know that there’s nothing like discovering a new classic, because there are only so many ...

The Killing (1956) Kubrick’s breakthrough, written by pulp novelist Jim Thompson, thrillingly reinvented the heist film, recounting the robbery of a racetrack by a motley gang of criminals in radical, ...

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An indie film noir whose grungy low-fi aesthetics complement its classic fatalism, Gazer (April 4, in theaters) tells a twisted tale stitched together from bits and pieces of Rear Window ...

Mulgrew described the play as a “1940s film noir parody” that features a script writer, a femme fatale, and a detective all involved in a movie. “The play is kind of being written as it happens, and a ...

Click here to view this embed. Fresh off its run in Europe, “Democracy Noir” is a timely film, which serves as a mirror of what’s going on today in the United States. The rise of autocratic ...

Pas spécialement mordu de comédie musicale, voilà que le funambule en signe une, en espagnol, doublée d’un film noir, triplée d’un mélo aux accents de telenovela… Il y a quelque chose ...

The film is frightening, clarifying, and empowering.” As put by Michael Fox, KQED, “At the same time, Democracy Noir provides, for our inspiration, three varyingly effective facets of resistance that ...