noir

Over the last few years the Swedish Film Institute have blessed us with some amazing restorations of crime films from the 1950s. We previously looked at a collaboration between two giants of Swedish crime writing, as well as the first two…

“Nordic noir” has been a popular genre in the English-speaking world since the 2000s, with the 2007 Danish drama The Killing’s breakout success a large factor. (In fact The Killing was much more successful in the UK than it had been in…

The phrase “cult classic” gets thrown around a lot when people are talking about films. Mostly it’s used to describe a film that wasn’t very popular on release but has since become extremely well-regarded. The Big Lebowski is an example…

Tension simmers throughout Calm With Horses as nearly every interaction runs the risk of erupting into violence, every scene on the brink of exploding into blood and brutality. It’s through the looming threat of merciless beatings and even…

Incest, insurance scams, lesbian undertones, murder, scheming housewives, sexual jealousy - no I am not describing a sleazy 90s Paul Verhoeven film. However, one would be forgiven for thinking so as that is very much the sandbox Paul Feig…

Why Are There So Many Crime Thrillers With 'Girl' in the Title? Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, Final Girls... There's no shortage of crime novels with 'girl' in the title since the huge success of Gillian Flynn's…

"'And do you know what I'm going to do now?"' 'No,' she said. 'What?' 'Buy a copy of Hamlet,' I said, 'and solve that!'" The Macbeth Murder Mystery, by James Thurber At first, I was sure that Hamlet must have killed his father.…

This is a comic book adaptation of an Honoré de Balzac short story, La Grande Breteche. The story follows Dr. Horace Bianchon and his interest in the abandoned manor: La Grande Breteche, which has been forbidden for over 50 years. As Dr.…

This is a comic book adaptation of an Honoré de Balzac short story, La Grande Breteche. The story follows Dr. Horace Bianchon and his interest in the abandoned manor: La Grande Breteche, which has been forbidden for over 50 years. As Dr.…

This is a comic book adaptation of an Honoré de Balzac short story, La Grande Breteche. The story follows Dr. Horace Bianchon and his interest in the abandoned manor: La Grande Breteche, which has been forbidden for over 50 years. As Dr.…