When it comes to film noir, there's a natural expectation for bleakness. But despite that, The Big Heat still manages to surprise with how far it's willing to go. It begins with a suicide and the ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.