Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

When you think of film noir movies, you may assume they’re predominantly American. While this isn’t true, it’s a fact that ...

Long before Rian Johnson's Benoit Blanc made headlines, a high-school guy with a bruised lip and an active detective's brain ...

Nicholas Cage's grizzled, spider themed private investigator will reportedly swing to MGM+ in 2026, but take this news with a ...

Kanopy is an app, funded by libraries, that allows anyone with a library card to access thousands of excellent movies — from ...

The Mandela Effect is gaining attention. It is due to a Black Mirror episode. This effect refers to shared false memories.

Then who knocks on my door? The usual suspects are midday movie critiques. They're here to take us down a dark alley to explore film noir. So who are these unsavory characters? My one is KPBS ...

Casey Chong presents a selection of underrated neo-noir movies from the 1990s… The 1990s era saw a string of notable neo-noirs from Warren Beatty’s bold comic strip-like style Dick Tracy (1990) to ...

This month’s picks include a Taiwanese horror-comedy, a South Indian tale of possession and patriarchy, a rain-soaked Chinese ...