He might be most known for the hard-boiled detective persona he honed in the early 1970s, but it’s actually Hackman’s lighter roles that more casual moviegoers will remember him for.The actor ...

When the hard-boiled private-eye detective story was born about a hundred years ago, the United States was a few years removed from a pandemic, grappling with Prohibition and reeling from the ...

Gene Hackman will forever be remembered by movies, many of which in he plays a variation on the hard-boiled police detective persona he crafted in the early 1970s, such as The French Connection ...

Thomas Mullen's "The Rumor Game" a hard-boiled detective story about Nazi sympathizers in WWII-era Boston. ... Jews are being violently attacked by Irish gangs and the police turn a blind eye, ...

Hard-boiled crime meets alternative history in ‘Cahokia Jazz’ Francis Spufford’s new novel is set in an America that’s recognizable yet disquietingly not February 14, 2024 More than 1 year ago ...

The Oscar-winning actor is in talks to lead a new thriller written by Nic Pizzolatto, based on the hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective novels. HOLA! USA . JUNE 19, 2025 3:24 PM EDT JUN 19, ...

Too earnest to be a parody and lacking the point of view to be revisionism or even homage, “Marlowe” merely cosplays a 1930s detective movie, taking us from two-fisted private dick to icy rich ...

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, released on May 23 by Happy Broccoli Games, turns the down-on-his-luck, hard-boiled detective trope on its head — then makes it quack.