Film noir is a genre predecessor to modern crime stories, a basis for every kind of thriller we know and love today. No one ...

Image Credit: Warner Bros. Although many things happen in film noir, the pleasure of the movies does not always involve the specifics of the plot. Case in point: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard ...

Noir sprouted up in the 1930s-40s, when most films were black-and-white and pulp novels, from thrillers and to detective ...

It can also be observed in films like “A Thousand and One,” “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” and “Time,” incalculable surveys of Black life that feel inextricably linked to the pandemic ...

Before there was the iconic film Bonnie and Clyde, there was Gun Crazy. A passionate, violent noir thriller from 1950, it has stood the test of time and remains an extremely important film from ...

2. Double Indemnity Directed by Billy Wilder and co-written with famed novelist Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity (1944) is a quintessential film noir based on James M. Cain’s eponymous novella.