Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

Chinatown, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet are all among the absolute greatest neo-noir movies that are arguably entirely ...

Film noir has some of the most iconic directors in movie history and these 10 are the smartest in the dark and dangerous ...

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...

Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to outwit a ...

Screenwriter Scott Frank emerged as a master of snappy banter in the ’90s when he adapted crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s witty stories “Get Shorty” and “Out of Sight.” So it seemed only natural that ...

Ready to dive into the dark, twisted world of film noir? Check out the 20 best films, plus where to grab the sharpest Blu-ray, 4K, and box sets. Let’s talk about film noir—the genre that slinks out of ...

Austin is a list writer for Collider, focusing on television. Austin graduated from Florida International University with a degree in English Literature, where he assisted with teaching several film ...

For several decades, the film noir genre has withstood the hands of time and was initially popularized by classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and Double Indemnity. By the 1960s, the ...

'Body and Soul,' 'Shadow of a Doubt' and 'Dead Reckoning' are among a dozen classic or obscure films programmed over a four-day weekend at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Like the Hollywood-based ...