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Movie Review: Cold in July (2014)
Today, we will look at “Cold in July,” a modest neo-noir independent movie directed by Jim Mickle, based on a book by the same name authored by Joe R. Lansdale. Michael C. Hall of “Dexter” fame, Sam Shepard, and Don Johnson play the film’s lead characters. The plot of “Cold in July” is set in Read more
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Frank Miller’s Sin City Graphic Novels Part -VII, Concluded
It is time to bring the curtains down on the Sin City Graphic novel series. In this post, we will look at the last volume of the series, Hell an Back. It is also the largest volume in the series and features only one yarn . The plot of this yarn, is a romantic, violent Read more
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Movie Review: The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
‘The Spanish Prisoner’ is a deliciously wicked film noir directed by David Mamet, who also wrote the film’s screenplay. Like the first movie he directed, ‘House of Games’, this movie also tells the story of con men playing games. Mamet received the Edgar Allan Poe award for this movie’s screenplay. Do you remember getting an Read more
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Movie Review: Cutter’s Way (1981)
‘Cutter’s Way’ is an overlooked neo-noir gem, directed by Ivan Passer, based on the book ‘Cutter and Bone’ by Newton Thornburg. When first released as ‘Cutter and Bone’, the movie did not fare well and hence was renamed ‘Cutter’s Way’. (It probably would have done well as ‘Bone Cutter’, but then again, this may have Read more
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Movie Review: The Two Jakes (1990)
Sixteen years after the neo-noir classic Chinatown came this sequel, with Jack Nicholson reprising his role as the gritty sleuth, Jake Gittes. This project was delayed in production for years, until Nicholson himself took over as its director. While it failed at the box office and some critics panned it as clunky, others like me Read more
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Movie Review: The Invisible Guest (2016)
From Spanish director Oriol Paulo, who gave us El Cuerpo in 2012, comes another intense thriller, The Invisible Guest, a tale of betrayal, adultery, murder, and cover-ups. Like El Cuerpo, the narrative unfolds through a series of flashbacks. Celebrity entrepreneur, husband, and father Adrián Doria (Mario Casas) stands accused of murdering his former mistress, Laura Read more
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