Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. Modern crime movies have taken a lot of inspiration from ...

In the 1960s, the neo-noir genre arrived as an extension of the classic film noir but with its own additional qualities, such as excessive violence, sexuality, and psychological elements, which ...

Billy Wilder began and ended his Hollywood career creating comedies—writing for Ernst Lubitsch in the 1930s, and making films like “Some Like It Hot” (1959), “The Apartment” (1960) and “One, Two, ...

John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ranks as one of the greatest film noirs of time, noted for its exceptional story and array of stunning performances by an all-star cast. Originally made in 1931, the ...

Merging film noir and spaghetti western tropes together in an irresistible way I knew immediately I wanted to take on the challenge of making this my next feature. More a reimagining than a remake, ...

'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 ...