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Tag: GENRE: NEO-NOIR

Film Review Retrospective

BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)

A Texas bar owner's plan to kill his cheating wife and her lover backfires, leading to a chaotic series of misunderstandings.

by Conall McManus 12th October 202412th October 2024
Film Review Retrospective

SEA OF LOVE (1989)

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.

by Dan Perrin 15th September 202414th September 2024
Film Review Retrospective

COLLATERAL (2004)

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

by Conall McManus 4th August 20244th August 2024
Film Review Retrospective

CHINATOWN (1974)

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

by Conall McManus 20th June 202420th June 2024
Streaming TV Review

RIPLEY (2024)

A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to bring his vagabond son home from Italy.

by Jack Heslop 16th April 202416th April 2024
Film Review Retrospective

THE CONVERSATION (1974)

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

by Conall McManus 4th April 20244th April 2024
TV Review

MONSIEUR SPADE – Season One

The famous detective Sam Spade is now 60 and living as an expat in the south of France in 1963.

by Thomas Burchfield 26th February 202426th February 2024
Film Review

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (2023)

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table, but before he can earn his freedom he must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe...

by Alexander Boucher 21st March 202321st March 2023
Film Review Physical Media

CUTTER’S WAY (1981)

A young Californian man and his friends suspect a local business magnate of murder.

by Barnaby Page 14th February 202314th February 2023
Film Review Physical Media

CROUPIER (1998)

An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.

by Remy Dean 8th December 20228th December 2022
Film Review Physical Media

WILD THINGS (1998)

A detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high school guidance counsellor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.

by Dan Owen 20th May 202220th May 2022
lost highway (1997)
Film Review Retrospective

LOST HIGHWAY (1997)

Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.

by Alexander Boucher 23rd February 202224th February 2022
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