Film noir thrived throughout the 20th century, delivering riveting, bleak crime stories that became outright classics like ...
Who doesn't love a good mystery? Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing ...
A woman in sunglasses and a man in a hat hide behind a bar in Double Indemnity, 1944. Image via Paramount Pictures During the 1940s and 1950s, the classic film noir genre reached its peak of ...
Film festivals are back, and the 2026 crop starts with a cool one: the 23rd Noir City celebration, which opens Friday and continues through Jan. 25 at the Grand Lake Theatre, in Oakland. Also this ...