Besides a troubled protagonist, noir Westerns are more cynical and dark, presenting a convoluted plot and a bloody solution that carries a moral message. Some of the greatest noir films are Westerns, ...

If you know anything about Robert Mitchum's vast filmography, then you probably know that the Old Hollywood star had a penchant for headlining film noir crime capers as well as Westerns. While Mitchum ...

The Western genre has given cinema some of the most influential films ever made, from Shane and The Gunfighter to The ...

“What you got ain’t nothin’ new,” drawls Ellis (Barry Corbin) to Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning neo-Western film “No Country for Old Men.” This notion of perpetual ...

Ready to dive into the dark, twisted world of film noir? Check out the 20 best films, plus where to grab the sharpest Blu-ray, 4K, and box sets. Let’s talk about film noir—the genre that slinks out of ...

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 ...

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 ...