Film noir is defined by its dark themes, but the endings of these 10 classics of the genre were shockingly bleak even by the ...

Surfside Playhouse presents a comedic parody of film noir tropes, "The Chocolate Pigeon Caper." The play follows a detective and the ghost of his partner as they search for a chocolate pigeon with ...

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns for its 26th year, which co-producer and host Alan K. Rode is calling the "best yet" for new discoveries and venerated classics.

Let’s talk about film noir —the genre that slinks out of the shadows, drags you into a smoke-filled room, and makes you like it. Since Double Indemnity set the gold standard for bad decisions and ...

Classic noir is usually defined as films made between 1941 and the late 1950s, and the term literally means "black film." That darkness comes not not just from the visual style but also from 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.

For anyone interested in film noir this November, “Sunset Boulevard” is a must-see exploration of the dark side of Hollywood. “Bonnie and Clyde” Dir. Arthur Penn (1967) ...

The film traces the topical climate of today – cancel culture, digital alienation – back to when the issues were burgeoning, with Peters choosing to set the film in the recent past of 2013. ‘When we ...

In Unstoppable, Lopez plays Judy, the mother of a wrestler born with one-leg. She worked with her soon-to-be ex-husband Ben Affleck on the project, as he and Matt Damon served as the film's producers.

Although film noir often refers to films of the 1940s and ’50s, many film historians cite 1930s films as the birth of noir, when detective fiction blossomed and was adapted to the screen.

Film noir, which loosely translates to “dark film,” grew out of German expressionism to take over U.S. movie screens in the 1940s and ’50s.