Category: Movies
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Noirvember: Fritz Lang’s “Human Desire” (1954)
Fritz Lang is one of those directors whose name is synonymous with film noir: a German expatriate who brought his expressionistic storytelling technique to Hollywood and quickly began to change how studio films looked and felt. His debut, Fury (which I talk about here) still shocks in spite of its studio-mandated happy ending, and movies like…
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Deeper Into The Shadows: A Dozen Films Noir For The Not-Quite-Neophyte (Part Three)
Part three! It’s over…or is it? (It is, at least for now.)
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Deeper Into The Shadows: A Dozen Films Noir For The Not-Quite-Neophyte (Part Two)
Part two features Cliford Odets adapted for the screen, John Garfield as a mob lawyer, plus much more.
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Deeper Into The Shadows: A Dozen Films Noir For The Not-Quite-Neophyte (Part One)
It’s November, and that means noir!
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They Got Their Money’s Worth: Joseph H. Lewis’s “Gun Crazy”
Gun Crazy is easily in my top five film noirs, probably even in my top three. It’s got everything you need to qualify as a genre classic.
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One Shot, One Kill: Charles Laughton’s “The Night of the Hunter.”
The much-loved actor only helmed one picture, but what a picture it was.
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“High and Low”: Economic Inequality Through The Lens of the Crime Film
I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of High and Low in July, 2023.
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“The Blue Dahlia”: More Than Just Another Post-War Noir
I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of “The Blue Dahlia” in June, 2023.
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I took a week off and did absolutely nothing on the computer during it.
Featuring Spider-Man, Kamen Rider, Bruce Lee and Johnnie To.
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Three Recent Things I Enjoyed: Superman, Kore-Eda, and A Creepy Horror Manga
Mark Russell writes a novel-length blockbuster with the Man of Steel, “Broker” does more than it has to, and “PTSD Radio” creeps me out.