For It Is Man's Number

While I watch many movies in December that I wouldn't watch at any other time of year, I still try to search high and low for the real g...

A Christmas vehicle for Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña (who will already be familiar to fans of the Jackass franchise),  Elf-Man  is a bit of...

If you think that it's easy to make a cheesy Christmas movie then you should try to watch a bad cheesy Christmas movie. There are many o...

2024 was a very good year for the stars of  Bad Tidings , which meant the timing seemed perfect for this Christmas movie. Chris McCausland w...

I have found myself saying this quite often lately, but here we have another movie that takes some very familiar elements and blends them in...

There may be some people out there who like the sound of  The Carrier  AKA  The Bag Man , a neo-noir crime flick that features a cast of fam...

Directed by Jenna Cato Bass, who also worked on the screenplay with, it appears, everyone in the cast,  Good Madam  is a drama with a nice s...

I love Gene Tierney. I love Gene Tierney so much that there's a chance I start every review of any Gene Tierney movie by stating my love...

A film noir that focuses on an insurance investigator who has his head turned by a beautiful woman. I must admit that I thought I knew how e...

I cannot recall the last time I watched a film that was SO reliant on the cast to keep viewers engaged and entertained. Of course, most movi...

This is the stuff. This is what you want when you start to swim through the murky waters of lesser-known noirs.  Framed  is enjoyably fast-p...

If you're like me then hearing the name Fritz Lang has your mind going immediately to two all-time classics of cinema. At the very least...

Sometimes you revisit movies and they hold up even better than you remembered. I find that happens to me often when I go back through the fi...

It's tough, it really is. Making a horror movie that isn't a standard horror movie means that you risk upsetting both horror fans an...

The fact that  Chicago  is as good as it is seems to be a testament to the songs, the staging, and some of the casting. I don't think Re...

The good thing about The Whistler movies is that they all tend to be pretty short, this one is 62 minutes, they lack any pretension, and you...

Another attempt to successfully adapt some of the "Parker" books, written by Donald E. Westlake, into something that could be view...

Based upon a novel of the same name, written by Sam Ross,  He Ran All The Way  is a very enjoyable and brisk noir that should appeal to thos...

Written and directed by Amalia Ulman, who also gives herself a starring role in her feature debut,  El Planeta  is a strange and brilliant l...

While I picked  Perfect Stranger  as a viewing choice because I believed it would fit alongside the many noir movies I have been watching th...

I have liked some of the previous directorial work of Natasha Kermani. I have also liked a lot of the writing of Joe Hill (including his col...

Based on the radio program by J. Donald Wilson,  The Whistler  is a very economical and fun little noir from director William Castle. He was...