Tales from the Dark Age: The End of an Error
I know I’ve spent this whole series trying to prove that the Dark Age of…
Film on the Internet: THE BLUE GARDENIA
Fritz Lang’s The Blue Gardenia feels like film noir poured into a Hays Code corset…
Film on the Internet: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Devil in a Blue Dress is now on Tubi, allowing me to finish off my…
Film on the Internet: ACE IN THE HOLE
Kirk Douglas’s Chuck Tatum tells us who he is as soon as he barges into…
Film on the Internet: THE HITCH-HIKER
Ida Lupino’s minimalist noir film The Hitch-Hiker may come to us through some fault in…
Year of the Month: Doug Wykstra on THE BIG SLEEP and LADY IN THE LAKE
“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
Year of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton Goes Undercover with THE MOB
Film noir! The genre of femme fatales, moral ambiguity, doomed antiheroes. Stories where one bad…
Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
Film on the Internet: MR. WEEKEND
McKenzie Woodward’s Mr. Weekend is a great example of how to do stripped-down, stylish filmmaking…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on SCANDAL SHEET
Scandal Sheet is a tight little crime melodrama set in the world of tabloid journalism.…