Film Noir Classics: CHINATOWN
An old fashioned sepia toned Paramount Pictures logo at the start of Roman Polanski’s 1974 Neo Noir masterpiece Chinatown acts as a cinematic portal...
Tagged: Neo Noir
Film Noir Classics: THE LONG GOODBYE
Before Robert Altman’s Neo Noir The Long Goodbye (1973) which revolves around the character of private detective Philip Marlowe, another film was made called...
Film Noir Classics: BLOOD SIMPLE
To celebrate the month of Noirvember I wanted to delve into the first wave of film noir and its post-modern form that is every...
Frank Miller’s SIN CITY
Sin City is based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Artist Frank Miller. Miller is most famous for Sin City...
Blade Runner 1982 Convention Reel
With news of Ridley Scott planning to re-visit the world of Blade Runner, the web is abuzz with geeking out (both positive and negative)....
CRIMEWATCH: The Big Bang
A shovel full of Dashiell Hammett, with a touch of Orson Welles, David Lynch and Frank Miller or something. All that looking overly ambitious...
Dreaming in Neo-Noir: Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER
Ridley Scott’s visionary science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner (1982) was based on the Phillip K. Dick novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” When...
