Friday, May 27, 2022

Dressed to Kill: ‘The Outfit’

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Mark Rylance as Leonard Burling in 'The Outfit.' S et in 1956, “The Outfit” (2022) is a smart-looking Chicago-based drama starring M...
Friday, May 6, 2022

In 'Double Indemnity,' A Stalled Car is a Flash of Genius

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Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, in 'Double Indemnity.'   A s many times as we pore over "Double Indemnity," there are...
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Sunday, May 1, 2022

Danger Lurks in the Seedy World of Film Noir Carnivals

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Tyrone Power, 'Nightmare Alley' (1947) T raveling carnivals are supposed to roll into town and deliver family entertainment — tacky,...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Red Scare Noir: Communists on the Waterfront

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Janis Carter, John Agar and Thomas Gomez in ‘The Woman on Pier 13’ (1949). ‘The Woman on Pier 13’ (1949) W hen the Berlin Wall went up in 19...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Is My Toaster Talking to Me? No, it’s just ‘Kimi’

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I s Steven Soderbergh’s tech thriller “Kimi” neo noir? Call it what you like, a crime thriller, perhaps, but the film, streaming on HBO Max,...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

'Nightmare Alley' 2021: Guillermo Del Toro's Noir Carnival of Horror

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  I should have known better than to smuggle a chicken burrito into the theater from the taqueria next door to it. Why, you ask? Let’s jus...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Sopranos Ending Confirmed: Told Ya So!

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“Sopranos” creator David Chase finally  set the record straight about Tony Soprano’s fate  in the series finale, “Made in America.”  N...