Chinatown, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet are all among the absolute greatest neo-noir movies that are arguably entirely ...

The absolute greatest performances in neo-noir movies include turns from Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dan Hedaya.

AFTER WORLD WAR II French critics became aware of a new mood gloomy, doomy and dangerous--in Hollywood movies, They coined a term, film noir, to describe these crime-infested, shadow-draped, black-and ...

Noir had its heyday in the ’40s and ’50s, but it’s far from gone. As noir died out in its classic sense, it was reborn as neo-noir, a genre that permeates pop culture with all the same coolness, style ...

Film noir experienced a high in the '90s, thanks to stylish comic book adaptations like Dick Tracy and Oscar-winning triumphs ...

Sometimes the best cinematic experiences are when a mystery grips you right away, and by the end, you don't see any of the twists coming. Taking pointers from the classic film noir genre, which had ...

From "Body Heat" to "Mona Lisa," the malleable genre continues to enthrall. In his 1972 essay “Notes on Film Noir”, film critic-turned-screenwriter/director Paul Schrader wrote on how the genre was ...

Noirvember isn’t on any list of official holidays, but the informal, social-media-driven movement where cinephiles watch and discuss noir movies in November is picking up steam with streaming services ...

After the sun-drenched disappointment of Colin Farrell’s Sugar, it’s nice to see a Los Angeles-set neo-noir that manages not to squander its simple premise. When a genre offering can buck convention, ...

Over more than 40 years in Hollywood, Denzel Washington has only ever reprised one of his characters: Robert McCall of The Equalizer trilogy. Nearly 30 years ago however, there was another potential ...

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