The great British film director Alfred Hitchcock, who, if he didn’t invent the modern thriller certainly set the mold, once ...

Why it is one of the best film noir movies: Johnson’s mesmerizing debut, Brick, takes all the same themes, archetypes, and language of an old-school detective tale, but reimagines them into one ...

In 1972, then film critic Paul Schrader wrote a seminal essay on the dark and mesmerizing post-war American cinema of deceit, murder and betrayal known as film noir. He broke it down into three ...

Regarding "Festival Romances the Dark Side" by Susan King (March 28) about the festival of film noir, I read the article with interest and was thinking how great it will be to see all these ...

Based on Lawrence Block's bestselling series of mystery novels, "A Walk among the Tombstones" stars LIAM NEESON as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator ...

But director Fernando Meirelles, justified by the hero’s passion for old movies, interpolated the narrative with snippets of noir classics like “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), “The Big Heat ...

An A picture and a B picture every night at the 19th annual Film Noir Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, which starts today. If you are a loyal Off-Ramp listener you might remember ...

Movies like Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, and Sweet Smell of Success contain some of the best acting in the history ...