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The Big Bluff (1955): The bitter flavour of festering reality
Posted on May 3, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe lurid original posters for The... -
The Story of Temple Drake (1933): The good bad-girl
Posted on April 14, 2013 | 2 CommentsPre-code Hollywood was frank about sex,... -
The Big Knife (1955): Bore me deadly
Posted on March 9, 2013 | 6 CommentsThe Big Knife is labelled a... -
Jigsaw (1949): “like the last act of Hamlet”
Posted on February 27, 2013 | 2 CommentsJigsaw is a rollicking thriller so camp... -
Highway 301 (1950): “a straight exercise in low sadism”
Posted on February 18, 2013 | 1 CommentIn 1950 New York Times... -
La Bionda (The Blonde – Italy 1992)
Posted on November 10, 2012 | 2 CommentsAn amnesiac femme-fatale the titular blonde... -
Naked Alibi (1954): “bizarre images, strange juxtapositions, and erotic plays”
Posted on October 14, 2012 | 4 CommentsJames Naremore in his introduction to... -
Johnny Eager (1941): “Just another hood I guess”
Posted on October 1, 2012 | 3 Comments“If this were serious drama one... -
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957): On The Waterfront Not
Posted on September 21, 2012 | 3 CommentsBased on William Keating’s autobiography, “The Man... -
The Thin Man (1934): James Wong Howe’s Noir Counterpoint
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 6 CommentsWhen director W.S. Van Dyke commissioned...
