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The Port of 40 Thieves (1944) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:52 am
Once more I dig into that seemingly endless supply of low rent programmers put out Republic Pictures. These things are always a hit or miss deal with the miss column usually victorious. This one thoug...
Rough Magic (1995) 18 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Film noir is not a genre that lends itself to comedy. This is not to say that humor is excluded from the genre, of course-- the scripts to pictures like Out of the Past (1947) and Riffraff (1947) are ...
Running Time (1997) 13 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
The “single take” gimmick, in which an entire film or television episode appears as if the director shot it in one long, continuous take, dates definitively to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948). In Hitch...
The Strangler (1964) 4 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
This low budget film is based on the Boston Strangler files. There have been eight murders in an unnamed major city. All eight have been nurses. The Police are at a loss to identify the killer. All t...
Bigger Than Life (1956) 31 Jul 2013 | 04:01 pm
Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life is a significant mid-1950s American movie that stretches the boundaries of what we accept as film noir. This CinemaScope, Color-by-Deluxe major studio production appear...
Impulse (1954) 23 Jul 2013 | 04:05 am
Noir fans will be excused if they find Impulse awfully familiar: A married professional man bored with his predictable suburban life jumps at the opportunity to involve himself in the illegal dealings...
Brick (2005) 17 Jul 2013 | 03:23 am
When crafting a neo-noir, filmmakers have two options: produce a postmodern, meta-fictional take on the genre (see: Quentin Tarantino), or play it straight by adapting the themes, structures and styli...
I Was A Communist for the FBI (1951) 12 Jul 2013 | 04:44 am
In 1945 John E. Rankin, the long serving, bombastic, and racist congressman from Mississippi stated “one of the most dangerous plots ever instigated for the overthrow of this government has its headqu...
Side Effects (2013) 3 Jul 2013 | 04:48 am
Over the past twenty-five years, Steven Soderbergh has consistently shown that he is one of the best American directors of his era. Many characteristics of his filmmaking could be cited in defense of ...
The Naked Kiss (1964) 26 Jun 2013 | 05:22 am
Pure pulp is a good way to describe director Sam Fuller's 1964 film The Naked Kiss. It's a Pocket Books paperback shot on film. After rewatching, I still have the same criticisms of the film I did wh...
