Film Noir Classics: SCARLET STREET
Fritz Lang’s celebrated back to back look at the prescient fantasies of New Yorkers in the nineteen forties remains a touchstone for crime cinema:...
Author: Josiah Howard
Alfred Hitchcock’s I CONFESS
What do you do if you’re a priest, bound by the covenant of the church not to divulge confessions—even to authorities—and someone you know...
CRIMEWATCH: Report To The Commissioner
Lost amidst a wave of stellar 1970s crime films—The Godfather, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The French Connection—is a seldom revisited gem: Report to the...
CRIMEWATCH: Short Eyes
Preceding Jamaa Fanaka’s critically acclaimed Penitentiary as well as the intense and influential TV event “Scared Straight,” 1977’s Short Eyes (prison slang for pedophile)...
Beverly Michaels stars in the film noir WICKED WOMAN
What’s a young woman who doesn’t have a “penny in her jeans,” to do when she blows into town on a Trailways bus with...
CRIMEWATCH: Sapphire
A crime drama, a murder mystery, a treatise on ethnic tensions, class and “passing” in 1950s London, Sapphire is also a clever, well acted...
THE CELL
Fifteen years after it first dazzled, thrilled, disgusted and challenged audiences, The Cell (2000), the story of a woman’s descent into the warped, violent,...
CRIMEWATCH: Crazy Joe
Created to appeal to fans of The Godfather series, the little-known Crazy Joe (1974) tells the “true life” story of Italian mobster “Crazy” Joe...
CRIMEWATCH: FINGERS
A little bit The Godfather, a little bit Taxi Driver, 1978’s Fingers (perhaps it was the odd title?) came and went without much notice....
