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Buying life insurance on someone else and naming yourself as beneficiary might sound like a plot point in a film noir mystery.
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These artworks suggest various props, personas, sets, dialogues, and scenarios of an unpublished noir mystery narrative (written by Brannon)-- the plot of which involves a sexually frustrated private detective who is hired to investigate a murder whose prime suspect is a sexually deviant dentist.
A Case of Distrust is a narrative - driven, murder mystery game heavily inspired by the works of noir mystery writers Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett...
Buying life insurance on someone else and naming yourself as beneficiary might sound like a plot point in a film noir mystery.
In Proving Ground, Blauner's modern noir mystery, the colossus that is the New York City Police Department, one of the largest civil law enforcement entities in the world, is a supporting character in its own right.
The August Tip of the Ice Pick Award goes to veteran thrillermeister Robert Ferrigno for his edgy noir mystery, The Wake - Up.
Is your masterpiece a noir mystery about quantum mechanics?
In the meantime, those who are waiting for something a little more unusual from McCarthy should stay tuned for the films she has coming out later this year (like the Henson Company puppet noir mystery The Happytown Murders).
At the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Yari Film Group premiered Brett Simon «s Assassination of a High School President, a film noir mystery set inside the world of a John Hughes - style High School comedy.
Johnson's debut feature is part teen drama, part noir mystery and almost perfect.
Seamless noir mystery, moral fable and, yes, Disney animal cartoon, Zootopia is the best animated film of the year.
Very old school noir mystery like Raymond Chandler.»)
She's also the author of five Regency romances, the dark urban fantasy The Stone War (a New York Times Notable Book), Daredevil: The Cutting Edge, and three Regency - noir mysteries, Point of Honour, Petty Treason, and The Sleeping Partner, featuring the redoubtable Sarah Tolerance, Agent of Inquiry.
For example, there used to just be «mysteries,» but now there are science fiction mysteries, erotic mysteries, romantic mysteries, procedural mysteries, spy mysteries, urban mysteries, cozy mysteries, locked - room mysteries, historical mysteries, noir mysteries... you get the idea.
Cozy mysteries need totally different covers from noir mysteries or police procedurals or whatever.
A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS — A compelling profile of Michael Nava and his mystery series featuring Henry Rios, a gay Latino defense attorney from Los Angeles who both represents and subverts the hardboiled detective of classic Noir mysteries.
Not exact matches
I'm not saying that I didn't dig it — I did — but Dreamland takes a more serious tone than its predecessors, crafting a Noir infused mystery / kidnapping yarn that, for the most part, doesn't disappoint.
Crime book reviews and recommendations, covering the newest psychological thrillers, mysteries, Nordic Noir, and more.
A standard - order noir murder mystery with a confused, contrived last act, Anon is more notable for how it sees the future than what it sees going on there.
Film Noir selections in all their gangster glory as well as murder mysteries, thrillers and classic action features curated from the massive FilmOn content library.
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.
More than anything, Alias Investigations once again provide a nice noir framework for the show's central mystery this season, one that is interesting to unravel and certainly feels more grounded than anything we've seen in the past with villains like The Hand.
Intercut in the fantastical story of Martin's character are scenes from classic mystery and noir films.
Though well acted and beautifully crafted, «Devil in a Blue Dress» falls short of being something special because, although the concept of an African American film noir is commendably original and the background climate - of racial prejudice and the post-WWII hangover in L.A. - is fascinating, the actual mystery is pretty run - of - the - mill.
It introduces itself as a noir murder mystery, but seamlessly veers into a story of man in love with a dancer, looking for redemption in his twilight.
The Kiss Me Mangled Mystery: Refurbishing a Film Noir How the original ending of Kiss Me Deadly was found by Glenn Erickson (following conversations with Alain Silver) and restored in conjunction with MGM / UA archivist John Kirk.
If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.
As its title suggests, there's many a puzzle to solve in Ivan Sen «s Mystery Road; the success of its western noir, as immersed in its Australian setting and indigenous protagonist as it possibly could be, not one of them.
Other Kurosawa films with strong noir elements, both playing in the Mifune series, are the multiple - viewpoint period murder mystery masterpiece «Rashomon» (1950) and his great dark samurai classic «Yojimbo» (1961).
A city with a past as sordid as New Orleans is the perfect setting for a noir murder mystery, and the game still does an excellent job of capturing the Big Easy's gritty charm.
His recent pictures, including the 1950s psychodrama «The Master» and the»70s noir «Inherent Vice,» feel less like stylized period pieces than weird, indelible relics of their respective eras — impeccably crafted, rich in mystery and deeply attuned to their characters» turbulent inner states.
Its film - noir style makes the detective mystery very compelling as well.
Not to be confused with this year's dark Wolverine send - off (or its black and white home video edit Logan Noir), this Logan is an original heist comedy from a mystery writer credited as Rebecca Blunt, believed to be a pseudonym.
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Clouzot, one of the kings of French noir, grips and thrills and teases us with this dark - hued, very cynical and very smart murder mystery about a suave inspector (Pierre Fresnay of «Grand Illusion») pursuing a serial killer.
This is a mile marker along the slow evolution of noir from the mystery blacks of its nascence to the deep reds of its New American Cinema renaissance.
It is the Oedipus / identity trajectory, complete with a blasted plague land, a murder, its thinly veiled culprit (noir is typically invested in process, not mystery), the appearance of a femme fatale, and a solution involving mortal self - knowledge.
In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).
2:00 pm — TCM — The Big Sleep Only one of the greatest detective / mysteries / films noir ever made.
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However, if there's one director who may finally be up to the challenge, it's Paul Thomas Anderson: Vulture reports that the director of Magnolia and There Will Be Blood is interested in tackling Pynchon's Inherent Vice, his 2009 noir about a paranoid, pothead private detective dealing with a mystery involving his ex-lover and a shadowy organization known as the Golden Fang.
Dark Crimes: Film Noir Thrillers highlights the work of legendary mystery writers Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler.
Amongst the plethora of television thrillers, mysteries and detective stories, the Nordic Noir genre is undoubtedly the one of the moment.
Of course, Gotham City itself also serves as a major character, with brash, bold attitude and cheeky swagger, that has lent an air of mystery to many a noir.
The former is a supernatural thriller whereas Giallo, a genre established by Mario Bava in 1967 with the visually sumptuous KILL, BABY... KILL, may invoke the spirit but leans heavily toward the murder - mystery elements of noir.
Thanks to truly engaging performances and Christopher Blauvelt's darkly atmospheric cinematography, which drags the audience deep down the noir rabbit hole alongside Katherine, one is easily lulled into State Like Sleep despite the central mystery lacking interest.
8:00 pm — TCM — The Big Sleep One of the greatest detective / mysteries / films noir ever made.
Fleischer leads us into this perverse noir world, but it only dallies with its noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively filmed in a semi-documentary style that emphasizes police procedures over character studies or creating suspense over suspects.
Why it was left in the dust is something of a mystery, even with the critical backlash against its neon noir stylings and romanticized gangster movie tropes.
That film is a Los Angeles - based, neo-noir homage to pulp - y detective mystery - thrillers, while The Nice Guys feels more like an L.A. - based homage to other acclaimed neo-noir detective films that have come out since the heyday of the film noir era, 1974's Chinatown and 1997's L.A. Confidential (it's surely not a coincidence to see Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger (Grudge Match) reunite here).