Film-Noir

American Meltdown

By Michael Talbot-Haynes | November 2024

Finally, a smart filmmaker has found the pulse of a generational heart attack in the super duper neo-noir American Meltdown, written and…

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Finally, a smart filmmaker has found the pulse of a generational heart attack in the super duper neo-noir American Meltdown, written and directed by Andrew...

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As humans, we tend to dig into our bad decisions in life. We think that if we just somehow continue down that dark path, certainly there's an escape, and...

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SLAMDANCE 2024 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Heaven is a moving target that drug addicts try to hit with a spike in the gritty noir-tinged drama Bliss, directed by...

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NOW IN THEATERS AND VOD! In her directorial debut, Nadine Crocker takes on adapting Michael Farris Smith's southern-noir novel, Desperation Road. Our tale...

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Directors Dan Gremley and Brad Podowski pay homage to film noir with their neo-noir feature, Silent as the Grave. I mean, the title alone suggests as...

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Cinema techniques from the last century have been raised from the dead in writer/director Chris Zuhdi's excellent neo-noir Neon Cactus. It begins in the...

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Nothing should stop you from making your movie, no matter the genre. Writer-director Kyle Schadt's Toxic Impulses shows that any genre, in this case,...

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Dabble in a life of crime, and bad news follows wherever you go. In Edward Drake's thriller, Gasoline Alley, Devon Sawa plays Jimmy, an ex-con turned...

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Guy Longstreet makes his cinematic debut as the writer-director-producer of Black Jade. The ambitious thriller, shot in sumptuous black and white, wears...

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How far will you go to find justice when justice cannot be found? In Pavel Shatu and Lea Pfandler's short film, Moment of Truth, a woman (Masha King)...

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