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…
Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
Film on the Internet: MR. WEEKEND
McKenzie Woodward’s Mr. Weekend is a great example of how to do stripped-down, stylish filmmaking…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on SCANDAL SHEET
Scandal Sheet is a tight little crime melodrama set in the world of tabloid journalism.…
Film on the Internet: IN THE LAND OF LOST ANGELS
In the Land of Lost Angels is Bishrel Mashbat’s feature-length directorial debut, and he makes…
Year of the Month: BOUND (1996)
Bound is an intensely playful movie. This was the directorial debut of the Wachowskis—who also…
Year of the Month: THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
One of the defining emotions of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon is contempt. It’s an…
Year Of The Month: Miller on FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE
Johnny Cash has been everywhere, man. Of travel he’s had his share, man. But the…