The film noir genre is a staple of classic cinema that reached its pinnacle point of popularity during the 1940s with iconic classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Rooted in ...

The film noir genre reached its peak of popularity during the 1940s with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Even though the 1940s are considered to be the height of the ...

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, ...

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in film noir classic 'Double Indemnity.' Eddie Muller likes his coffee the same way he likes his movies: unsweetened and dark. Muller, 64, the host of Noir Alley on ...

Noirvember isn’t on any list of official holidays, but the informal, social-media-driven movement where cinephiles watch and discuss noir movies in November is picking up steam with streaming services ...

"British cinema made in the studio system managed to blend popular entertainment with some of the most stylistically innovative forms, elevating it to the status of art," says curator Ehsan Khoshbakht ...

Classic Hollywood has a somewhat unearned reputation for being easy, cheerful viewing, full of giddy musicals and sweet love stories. Film noir of the 1940s and ‘50s cut right through these ...

The greatest British film of all time, Carol Reed's The Third Man is an unrivalled piece of early Cold War cinema - a ...

As always, the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs - taking place this Thursday through Sunday - will focus on movies from the primary noir era of the '40s and '50s, including a handful of ...