‘The Lone Ranger’ has a great big-bang ending — it’s staying awake to witness it that’s tough.
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Touch Of Noir: Fritz Lang’s Noir Nightmares ‘Scarlet Street’ and ‘The Woman In The Window’
Film noir was born from the evocative shadow play of German Expressionism. As one of the greats of Expressionist cinema, it is only fitting that after fleeing the Nazis Fritz Lang would reinvent himself by making highly stylized noir films in Hollywood. Fritz Lang is best remembered for his classics Metropolis and M, but […]
LAFF Film Review: ‘The Conjuring’ Is A Fright Fest Of Fun
You have to prepare yourself to live in fear of what is coming while watching The Conjuring. It’s going to get you no matter how impenetrable you may think you are to scary movies.
Touch Of Noir: Top 5 Film Noir Parodies
For all the seriousness of film noir, its easily identifiable visual and narrative conventions lend themselves to parody.
LAFF Film Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ (Dir. Ryan Coogler 2012 USA)
Reconstructing the last day in a man’s life was the difficult task put to director Ryan Coogler with Fruitvale Station. The events leading up to Oscar Grant’s untimely death on New Year’s Day 2009 is the basis for the story, the sensationalized media frenzy that came afterwards is left out of Fruitvale Station, giving the […]