Film noir is associated with cinema from the 1940s and '50s, but the DNA of the iconic genre is prevalent in all crime, thriller, and mystery films in the present day. With the advent of color ...

Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From ...

This is a tremendous visceral experience, with radiant colors, slate-somber black-and-white, and geysers of crimson blood.

It’s easy to forget quite how mean-spirited Joe Dante’s wacky 80s monster movie actually is; but this strange, anarchic film ...

The last time I visited Tennessee, I was 15, traveling around Memphis with my parents, and spent most of the time listening ...

Andover Film Club is marking the 10th anniversary of the publication of Picture Mad with a request to the residents of Andover to send in their memories of the town's cinemas for inclusion on their ...

From Hollywood tearjerkers to Chinese tales of passion and loss, melodrama has shaped cinema across cultures. Our trip around the globe explores how filmmakers worldwide have embraced heightened ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s not often that a mere movie critic can somehow create a genuine holiday, but that’s exactly what happened when writer Marya E. Gates coined “Noirvember” over a ...

Classic film noir is a key part of the history of Hollywood, and it is one of the most notable postwar genres. However, the noir sensibility would prove to be even more enduring, and from the 1970s to ...

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 ...

Lights, camera, action: film festival season has arrived. Check out a new motion picture or an award-winning documentary at one of these multi-day film festivals coming to town this fall. The March on ...