Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP/Jon Elswick/AP When you watch ...

Film Noir is a universe based around mystery, the femme fatale, and the detective. Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in the ...

Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s worth of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Originally made in 1931, the ...

During the Great Depression, the popularity of pulp fiction and detective novels took the United States by storm, leading to the cultivation and rise of the classic film noir genre that audiences ...

'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 ...