Film-Noir

The Dummy Detective

By Ethan Padgett | January 2026

Director Rob Margolies’s The Dummy Detective, written by Jonathan Geffner, is a whodunit mystery noir filled with twists and an assortment of…

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Director Rob Margolies's The Dummy Detective, written by Jonathan Geffner, is a whodunit mystery noir filled with twists and an assortment of quirky...

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Written and directed by Bron Theron, Half Dead Fred drops a paranormal twist into a classic gumshoe noir storyline and sets it in Flint, Michigan. It's a...

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Damaged Goods doubles as writer-director Daniel R. Ferrell's feature-length debut and an expansion of a short the filmmaker made in 2021. The hard-boiled...

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Director Darrett Sanders's debut film, Kill Me Deadly, is a black-and-white noir thriller with a comedic twist. With a 1940s classic look and feel, the...

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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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