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Film noir has never been easy to define. Less a genre, more an inkblot test, its origins are as scattered and difficult to pinpoint as its cinematic offspring. And even its most established tropes vary in frequency from film to film.…

There’s a joke I made about writing this article: “how do I make a film about people isolated together and one of them going mad topical today?” I thought about that joke while I was watching The Shining’s opening, with its amazing…

“You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?” - The Joker In 2019, cinema audiences are geared up for the monumental 22nd entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Endgame.  Back 30 years ago however there was not so…

In nineteen-sixty-nine the world experienced the heights of the hippy-movement and Jimi Hendrix’s guitar soared over Woodstock signaling the highs. Then of course the world witnessed the lows as the Manson Family murders rocked the Los…