These classic movies of the 1940s that have held up beautifully through the decades: Whatever their flaws, they recognize and examine aspects of human nature that haven't changed, and maybe even offer ...

One of the few film noir movies that has received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 mystery thriller, Shadow ...

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and Joel McCrea ...

Noir is among cinema's best, most influential movements, and fans on Letterboxd have bestowed high scores on classics like ...

Tom Hutchinson is a passionate media producer, podcaster and writer. After spending two years hosting a show on community radio that reviewed film and television, he went on to complete a Bachelor's ...

Several Hollywood filmmakers have combined the key elements of the film noir genre with horror to create some truly ...

Seattle has long embraced the shadowy lure of film noir. Not exactly a genre, film noir has been described as a style, an attitude, a movement, even an era of Hollywood filmmaking. It’s a particular ...

It is never easy to say where anything begins. (You want to argue? Nominate a track as the first rock 'n' roll song ever.) These days Humphrey Bogart begins on television, dryly lisping through a ...

At first glance, film noir may appear as little more than simple crime thrillers best suited for numbing distraction on a rainy day, further challenged by those turned off by the heavy themes they ...