Since 2010, film fans have celebrated November as “Noirvember,” challenging each other to dig into the film noir genre. Noir, which had its Hollywood heyday in the 1940s and ’50s, featured morally ...

Let’s start with a few seminal noirs, the basics you’ll want to hit to understand the genre and its conventions. More than a decade after making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles further secured his status ...

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 ...

The film noir genre is a timeless genre that initially emerged on the silver screen during the 1930s and reached its peak of ...

The first look at the Face/Off actor as Spider-Man Noir in the Prime Video series was unveiled at the Amazon Upfront presentation. Announced in 2023, the Spider-Man Noir series focuses on the titular ...

While the peak of the film noir genre may be a thing of the past, there's at least one working director today who can't get enough of the sleezy characters and ulterior motives common among those ...

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 ...

Spider-Noir remains in production and, if the set photos we've seen are any indication, the web-slinger's first TV series will put a unique new spin on Spider-Man. Screen icon Nicolas Cage plays Ben ...

Some movies are transformed through repetition into ritual to acquire new meanings which their creators may not have intended. We never see the same film twice because we bring a different state of ...