Neo-Noir
Jim Thompson’s ‘The Killer Inside Me’ (1952): Book vs. Movie
Published in 1952, ‘The Killer Inside Me’ marked Thompson’s bold return to Noir fiction after a brief stint working as a journalist.
Film Noir Movie Reviews
Neo-Noir
‘Killing Them Softly’ (2012): Drowning In Your Hope And Change
When their underground poker operation gets robbed by bumbling amateurs, the Louisiana mob goes into crisis mode. Time to call in Jackie Cogan.
Film Noir
Graham Greene’s ‘The Third Man’ (1949): Book vs. Movie
Middling novelist Rollo Martins arrives in partitioned Vienna to accept a nebulous job offer from his boyhood friend, Harry Lime.
Streaming
‘Tehran’ Review: Spy Thriller Series Is The Gem Of Apple TV+
Rookie Mossad operative Tamar Rabinyan goes deep undercover in Tehran to sabotage a nuclear power plant.
Streaming
Severance Review: Stiller’s New Series Baffles and Delights
Does the Apple TV+ dystopian techno-drama ‘Severance’ interrogate the true nature of the corporate workplace, or the wider world itself?
Neon Noir
Michael Mann’s ‘Thief’ (1981): Burn The System To The Ground
Released to widespread critical acclaim, ‘Thief’ laid the course for Michael Mann’s brilliant directorial career.
Film Noir
‘Somewhere In The Night’ (1946): Remembering Forgotten Noir
4 years before the groundbreaking ‘No Way Out,’ writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz delivered his forgotten classic, ‘Somewhere In The Night’.
Film Noir
‘Night And The City’ (1950) Review: Get Rich Or Die Running
Scored by the echoing footsteps of its desperate protagonist, Jules Dassin’s ‘Night and The City’ is a Film Noir masterpiece.
