Funny thing about noir. It even works in the daytime. Saturday afternoon’s films were a double-double shot, honoring both the lovely Joan Leslie and Ida Lupino, who in many respects is the first lady of the genre. (Check out that career.) I’d seen both movies before, but watching them in tandem brought new aspects to light.… Continue

Night one of Noir City was a tribute to a man not credited on either movie on the bill, the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.



The Prowler is a film rich with secret history, not only because of Trumbo’s involvement and that of John Huston as a shadow producer, but because it essentially disappeared for decades. Only a single… Continue

Tune in to Turner Classic Movies on Tuesday, November 13, when novelist James Ellroy takes to the air as part of guest programmer month.



His choices include a trio of California-set crime dramas from 1958, all of which are new to me:



Stakeout on Dope Street,… Continue

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was well before my time. I know the series is much-loved among espionage fans, and thought the upcoming DVD release would be a chance to check it out.



As it happens, Tuesday, November 6 is U.N.C.L.E. day on Turner Classic Movies. Eight two-part episodes of the show were… Continue

Turner Classic Movies will be showing



1946's Deadline at Dawn tonight (Tuesday, October 30) at



11:45 PM Eastern. I caught it at Eddie Muller's Noir



City festival earlier this year, and Megan Abbott



wrote an appreciation of it in the Film Noir



Foundation's latest newsletter. Trust me when I say



it's one of the damnedest movies you'll ever see.



Clifford Odets adapting Cornell Woolrich for… Continue