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‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “That night was the beginning. We would see more of each other, then all of each other. But this is television, so we won't get into that.” Moonlighting is the sort [...]

An eight-novel collection reveals the influence of women on midcentury noir.

"Macao" is a delicious combo of brilliant silliness, satire and film-noir nostalgia, thanks to the grand lyrics and hilarious script by the high priest of the outrageously silly and absurd--Christopher Durang.

For hundreds of classic movies in danger of being forgotten, the Film Noir Foundation is here to save the day.

From Snowden to Salgado, a look at the modern state of the ever-prescient genre.

The elements of classic noir seem perfectly at home in a city like Portland.

The GOODS from The Cinematheque Vancouver, BC | The feverish, fatalistic world of Film Noir returns to The Cinematheque with 12 hard-boiled classics from noir’s 1940s/1950s heyday, including The Blue Dhalia, In a Lonely Place, and The Big Heat on 35mm, plus two Noir sidebar programs: The Psycho Western and The Paranoid Conspiracy Thriller of …

The term “film noir” is thrown around a lot to describe a great many films. Neo-noirs, film soleil, and other such spin-offs and mutations are also used to describe recent endeavors in everything from a Coen Brothers film to the latest season of True Detective. But just what is film noir?

Imagine stepping into an old film noir picture, one of those gritty, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s where life is cheap, the detectives are hard-boiled, the men all wear fedoras, the women are usually referred to as “dames,” everybody smokes, and redemption is just a word listed in the dictionary under "R."