Year of the Month: James Williams on THE HITCH-HIKER
If it’s difficult for female directors in Hollywood now, it was almost impossible in the…
Film on the Internet: DARK PASSAGE
Delmer Daves’s 1947 noir Dark Passage is like a complex lucid dream. It’s both stylish…
Film on the Internet: THE SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE
Michael Gordon’s The Secret of Convict Lake cannot live up to its title, which sounds…
Tales from the Dark Age: The End of an Error
I know I’ve spent this whole series trying to prove that the Dark Age of…
Film on the Internet: THE BLUE GARDENIA
Fritz Lang’s The Blue Gardenia feels like film noir poured into a Hays Code corset…
Film on the Internet: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Devil in a Blue Dress is now on Tubi, allowing me to finish off my…
Film on the Internet: ACE IN THE HOLE
Kirk Douglas’s Chuck Tatum tells us who he is as soon as he barges into…
Film on the Internet: THE HITCH-HIKER
Ida Lupino’s minimalist noir film The Hitch-Hiker may come to us through some fault in…
Year of the Month: Doug Wykstra on THE BIG SLEEP and LADY IN THE LAKE
“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
Year of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton Goes Undercover with THE MOB
Film noir! The genre of femme fatales, moral ambiguity, doomed antiheroes. Stories where one bad…