“Stage Fright” (1950) revisits the wrongly pursued person and theatrical setting of “Murder!” (1930) and executes the subsequent events better. Flirting with slow-burn romantic intrigue
Jack Nicholson was too young for the first wave of noir, but luck would have it that he was in his prime for Seventies neo-noir.
Six years after the lauded “Laura,” the trio of director Otto Preminger and stars Dana Andrews (the guy) and Gene Tierney (the dame) reteam for
One of my favorite hidden gems among Agatha Christie’s catalog is “Cards on the Table” (1936), because she establishes that only four people are in
As it peers into the dark corners of a massive conspiracy but maintains a personal scope, writer-director Brian De Palma’s solid thriller “Blow Out” (1981)
The cycle of life imitating art imitating life comes full circle for director Alan J. Pakula with the capper to his thematic “paranoia trilogy,” “All
Alan J. Pakula is arguably the most influential director in the second wave of noir in film history – Seventies neo-noir. The original wave dominated
Director Alan J. Pakula delivered the three podium holders of dark Seventies noir, starting with “Klute” (1971) before adding the slightly more famous “The Parallax
Any dive into the great film noirs has to include “The Third Man” (1949), often ranked among the best British productions of all time. Interestingly,
Just one year after “Rebecca,” director Alfred Hitchcock and actress Joan Fontaine made the very similarly themed “Suspicion” (1941). It’s a classic example of an