Why it is one of the best film noir movies: Based on Davis Grubb’s novel, The Night of the Hunter is a chilling classic that dared to put child protagonists in a hazardous situation in the time ...

Chinatown' is one of the most celebrated films from the New Hollywood movement, but its legacy is muddied by the harrowing ...

Akira Kurosawa is the William Shakespeare of cinema. Whether implicitly or explicitly, every film, to one degree or another, ...

Classic film noir is a key part of the history of Hollywood, and it is one of the most notable postwar genres. However, the noir sensibility would prove to be even more enduring, and from the ...

The Maltese Falcon (1941) is often hailed as the movie that launched the classic Hollywood noir genre. John Huston marks his directorial debut with this gripping crime drama based on Dashiell ...

Well, this is a film noir, after all, so the first thing she does is kill him. But that’s just the beginning of the fun in ...