Sentences with phrase «noir detective»
How about noir detective games with pixel art visuals?
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A black and white shot of Mario and a dog both wearing trilby hats as though they're a film - noir detective duo.
It seems as though noir detective tales are a big theme for gaming recently.
The game oozes noir detective sensibilities with a supernatural edge that is quite inventive.
Do you like noir detective narratives, stealth mechanics, and anthropomorphic racoons?
Moonbot Studio's Wonderbook private eye story, Diggs Nightcrawler, which is a film noir detective story featuring «a bookworm gumshoe.»
This is because people used to «stuff» keywords into the title field e.g. «Paranormal romance with a noir detective twist.»
Joining Nassise and Merz are a host of fantastic authors bringing some truly original works - award - winner Christopher Golden brings the first in his Body of Evidence series; bestseller Jeremy Robinson treats us to a kaiju thriller to rival Pacific Rim; supernatural thriller writer David Niall Wilson shares a novel of love, loss, and Edgar Allen Poe, bestseller Russell Blake gets dark and deadly in a noir detective thriller.
Selznick's upcoming picture book is a fun and campy take on those classic noir detective stories that's expertly crafted around his classic black - and - white illustrations.
Whether or not you've read Hammett's classic noir detective novel or seen the 1941 movie, you will be entranced by this magnificent adaptation, which is a solid reminder of the power of audio.
We've already told you about Mr. Mercedes, the noir detective story scheduled for June 3 — yesterday, the author announced that 2014 would also bring Revival, the story of a charismatic preacher who takes a small New England town by storm in the mid-20th century.
The Man Who Wasn't There may be strictly for two types of people: those who enjoy film noir detective flicks and those who enjoy the Coen brothers style of filmmaking.
Just as Rian Johnson wrote his script to play out like classic Dashiell Hammett, so too does he direct his film to look like modern noir, featuring many of the same stylish staples that those noir detective films of the 1940s and 1950s were known for.
It's not the classic that The Big Sleep is, but it's a solid noir detective film that's more than worth watching, not least of all for Claire Trevor, who's pretty much always worth watching.
Most of the noir detective story archetypes are here — the tough shamus (Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant), the murder suspect (Charles Fleischer as long - eared fugitive Roger Rabbit), the femme fatale (Kathleen Turner as cartoon bombshell Jessica Rabbit), the suspicious boss (Stubby Kaye as studio head Marvin Acme) and the formidable lawman (Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom).
As most of you know, this is a send - up or spoof of film noir detective movies interlacing live action with film clips.
Tell someone outside academia that you're a Principal Investigator, and they'll assume you're some kind of university film noir detective.
Noir detectives smoked and drank too much, were always unattached, and usually damaged in some way by the ugliness they encountered on a daily basis.
Not exact matches
«Well sir, the shortest farewells are the best,» Casper Gutman — the fat man — tells detective Sam Spade near the end of Dashiell Hammett's classic noir novel, The Maltese Falcon.
Film noir fans won't be fans of this: the faux - Raymond Chandler narration is pathetic, and other than ethnicity Banderas brings nothing new to the hard - boiled detective character.
Rockstar Games and Team Bondi are crafting a film noir - style detective thriller for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Film noir for physics geeks, The Big Bang... is a clever, if relentlessly dramatic (despite stabs at levity), existential detective story.
Full of haunting images and provocative ideas, blending art world immersion with detective noir, offering the curious plenty to sift through as reality bends and obsessions graduate into horror.
Detective Pikachu is a weird entry in the Pokémon franchise, especially because it somehow works: this crazy noir version of Pikachu is brilliant, however we can't tell the same about the game itself.
If you have played and enjoyed the first case in this detective story by Suda51, then The 25th Ward can be a good choice for a few more hours of visual novel / noir gameplay.
Critic Consensus: The Expanse blends sci - fi elements and detective noir into a visually compelling whole, though it takes a few episodes for the story to capture viewers» intrigue.
When the season does intermittently sag beneath the weight of its extensive world - building and philosophical inquiries, Altered Carbon still manages to enthrall audiences with a winding detective mystery told in timeless noir fashion.
Affectionately spoofing 1940s film noir and detective dramas, this comedy follows a private investigator's attempts to solve the murder of a scientist.
Attempts to do for «The Big Sleep» - type detective movie and film - noir genre what «Blair Witch» did for horror films.
This film noir spoof takes footage from the old movies and mixes them with scenes of Steve Martin as a detective.
Carl Reiner's homage to film noir has Steve Martin as a detective on a case, acting and reacting to selected bits of classic noir.
The film recalls the classic noirs of the 1940s and 1950s, and is stocked with boozy detectives, backstabbing dames and gun - toting baddies.
Gemini A morally empty, downbeat Los Angeles noir about a personal assistant (Lola Kirke, «Mozart in the Jungle»), the No. 1 suspect in the murder of her bratty movie - star boss (Zoë Kravitz), trying to clear her name as a homicide detective (John Cho) closes in.
Okay, so director Rian Johnson's teenage gumshoe doesn't exactly have a professional license, but Brick is so indebted to the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett that excluding it would be a noir travesty.
Meanwhile, the film is based on the first Mickey Haller novel by ace crime novelist Michael Connelly, who literally reinvented the L.A. noir novel with his realistic procedural series starring iconoclastic police detective Harry Bosch and now his Lincoln Lawyer series featuring attorney - at - law Michael «Mick» Haller.
A detective noir wash makes 2049 unnecessarily murky at times, but between stunning vistas of dystopian Los Angeles, the contemplative extrapolation of everyday technology, and Gosling's blood - boiling performance, where hero tropes go out the window left and right, Villeneuve sets a bar for sci - fi sequels.
Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.
2005: JGL left a lasting impression on viewers as a young, hard - boiled detective in writer - director Rian Johnson's high school noir «Brick.»
This brave appraisal of fear and uncertainty elevates The Stranger above any run - of - the - mill detective story, qualifying it as a horror - tinged film noir, even if it doesn't always evenly line up with the genre.
He began his directorial career with The Maltese Falcon, not simply an iconic detective film and a defining film noir but an adaptation so precise that the previous screen versions have been long forgotten.
The film noir style makes this a classic detective story that'll certainly stand the test of time.
Its film - noir style makes the detective mystery very compelling as well.
Noir City: Chicago opens with a 20th - anniversary screening of Curtis Hanson's «L.A. Confidential,» a chronicle of political and police corruption as four detectives try to solve «The Nite Owl Massacre.»
It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.
That sets the scene for the directorial debut for both actor Edmond O'Brien, who also stars as Detective Lt. Barney Nolan, the violent, angry cop, and producer Howard W. Koch, who apprenticed as an assistant on (among others) the early B - movie film noirs of Anthony Mann.
Women and foreigners are not to be trusted in the noir universe; information is slippery and expensive; and the solution of the puzzle more often than not points back to a rot at the heart of the detective.
Ask the 44 - year - old director of Inherent Vice about adapting Thomas Pynchon's 2009 stoner - noir novel — in which a hippie - dippy private detective (played by The Master's Joaquin Phoenix) tangles with all sorts of Seventies Southern California types — or what he remembers about growing up in the Me Decade, and Anderson will thoughtfully stare out the window of his hotel's lounge.
The movie is the latest exercise in comic noir by the writer / director Shane Black, and it shares a great many attributes with his terrific 2006 comeback film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the two mismatched detectives and their more practical female associate, the convoluted plot that features intersecting crime cases — even the hand maimed in an unfortunate encounter with a closed door.
With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp — all Thomas Pynchon.
2:00 pm — TCM — The Big Sleep Only one of the greatest detective / mysteries / films noir ever made.