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‘Spider Noir’ Is the Strangest Spider-Man Yet

June 5, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1930s New York, alternate universe, Amazon Originals, Amazon Prime Video, art deco, black and white cinematography, Brendan Gleeson, comic book adaptations, comic book television, Crime Drama, Edward G Robinson, Electro, film noir, Genre Television, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Huston, James Cagney, Karen Rodriguez, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Marvel adaptation, Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Cage performances, noir fiction, Pop Culture, Prime Video, private detectives, Pulp Fiction, Sam Fuller, Sandman, Spider Noir, Spider Verse, Spider-Man, Streaming Television, superhero television, superhero TV, Television Review, The Black Cat, The Lizard, TV criticism

Nicolas Cage does his best Humphrey Bogart as a webslinger who’s also a hardboiled 1930s private eye

With Noir City, Black is Back

April 9, 2026April 8, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments black and white cinema, classic Hollywood cinema, crime and punishment themes, Doris Day, Double Indemnity, Eddie Muller, film noir, Film Noir Foundation, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood film festivals, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, jazz culture in film, Lauren Bacall, mid-century American film, Noir City, Sweet Smell of Success, The Asphalt Jungle, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Postman Always Rings Twice

New events across the continent celebrate the enduring appeal of the shadowy genre

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Jeffrey Epstein, Meet Pierce Morehouse Patchett

March 5, 2026March 10, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1990s Cinema, Abuse Of Power, academy awards 1998, blackmail, brian helgeland, bud white, crime films, cultural criticism, Curtis Hanson, Danny DeVito, david strathairn, ed exley, elite corruption, ellis loew, epstein files, epstein scandal, film analysis, film noir, Guy Pearce, hollywood corruption, hollywood history, hollywood mythology, hollywood noir revival, hollywood scandals, james ellroy, Jeffrey Epstein, justice and corruption, kompromat, kompromat politics, la confidential, los angeles history, neo noir, noir cinema, noir literature, organized vice, pierce morehouse patchett, political corruption, power and impunity, ron rifkin, Russell Crowe, sex trafficking, sid hudgens

‘L.A. Confidential’ forecast some of the network of abuse and how we feel about it

Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ Turns 75

September 21, 2025 Matt Hanson 1 Comment 75th anniversary, Alida Valli, Anton Karas, black market, Carol Reed, Citizen Kane, COVID profiteering, Dutch angle, Ferris Wheel scene, film noir, Graham Greene, Harry Lime, Holly Martens, J David McSwane, Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Pandemic Inc, post-WWII films, postwar Vienna, Robert Siodmak influence, Roger Ebert, Stalin quote, The Third Man

Orson Welles and an eerie soundtrack command a ‘near-perfect’ film

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A Spinoza professor undergoes an existential crisis in ‘The Basics of Philosophy’

September 8, 2026September 11, 2026 Austin Tannenbaum 0

At the Venice Film Festival, Paul Schrader Wrestles with Free Will and Determinism

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There’s No Need To Hide Your ‘Lion’ Eyes

September 7, 2026September 11, 2026 Robert Dean 0

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John Malkovich, Werner Herzog, and Danny Boyle Show Up Big in Italy

September 5, 2026September 10, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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BFG Podcast #314: Lanterns, Coyotes, Acme Discussions

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

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