Few films are as striking to look at or listen to as the British film noir “The Third Man.” Its shadow-soaked black-and-white palette, artfully askew camera angles and elaborately expressive editing ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

The 2000s saw lots of neo-noir movies released into theaters, and some of these are just as good as anything from the past of ...

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...

Film noir had a renaissance in the 1990s, and the decade produced a slew of gritty crime flicks and neon-drenched neo-noir classics. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, noir pushed the boundaries of ...

Celebrate film noir this month with a Friday night film series called Noirvember Nights at Cinema Under the Stars. The films will have exclusive video introductions from Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...