Experts say the genre was all about suspense, and what better way to convey that to audiences than an obsession with time? By David Belcher The race against the clock — to solve a crime, to ...

Film Noir is 1940s cinema filled with femme fatales ... The cinematography, reflecting the somber mood of the films, utilized ...

The tension is fantastic and the ending is merciless but gripping. But apart from the film noir mood, it's the Freudian relationship between mother and son that gives the tale its twisted power.

Why would you want to watch the antisocial protagonists, victims, and antiheroes of film noir? “Despite an audience’s sense of right and wrong,” Spacey told me, “they find themselves ...

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.

From Wim Wenders' 'Paris, Texas' to Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr Fox', here are ten movies that are perfect for watching on a rainy afternoon.

But the way this is resolved, it’s all a trifle too neat: a film noir that ends with a feel-good whitewash.

When 19-year-old Lauren Bacall cast a smoldering glance toward Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film noir “To Have and Have ... “When she was in a good mood, Betty could seduce a stone,” wrote ...

I tried to channel those noir films with Bogart, and have those kinds of sounds that he might make with [James] Cagney, or Edward G. Robinson, that kind of way of talking,' Cage told Entertainment ...

Sebastian Stan plays a facially deformed actor who emerges from a miracle cure to realize he's lost something deeper, in a ...

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Look, here’s Dafoe as the ghost of a B-movie star who still thinks himself a noir hero ... The governing mood is chaos in a film that can’t decide what story to tell. Watching it is like ...