Film-Noir

The Silver Moonlight

By Alex Saveliev | August 2021

Writer-director Evgueni Mlodik’s ultra-low-budget The Silver Moonlight combines so many genres and so earnestly reaches for the stars that one can’t help but…

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Writer-director Evgueni Mlodik's ultra-low-budget The Silver Moonlight combines so many genres and so earnestly reaches for the stars that one can't help...

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After seeing the trailer for Reminiscence, I honestly did not want to see it. It looked sappy and full of all that romantic schmaltz we expect from a guy...

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The first thing one notices about the short film The Dark Between Us is that it is photographed like an ad for a luxury skincare brand. Ruhi (Piyali...

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Props to filmmaker Jon Cvack for going for broke. In Road to the Well, an ostensibly by-the-book murder mystery, the writer/producer/director blends...

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When Anna's (Natalie Krill) sister Katja (Sofie Holland) commits suicide after she is pressed into prostitution by a pimp in Montreal, Anna engages the...

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More than anything, I was impressed by the sheer ambition of Elodie. Here is a story that begs to be told on a larger scale, and I hope someday that it...

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Lust, crime, and greed are woven together in a complicated web of deceit in Josh Pierson’s Where Sleeping Dogs Lie. Crime rarely pays, and simple...

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Christian Sparkes's drama Hammer opens with a pair of situations that, as different as they appear on the surface, are weighted with the same sense of...

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In a world that is now on lockdown, a substantial amount of people are relying on art to quell the monotony or loneliness of social distancing. From film...

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