REVIEW: Jessica Jones Season 1
Jessica Jones, the second of Marvel’s Netflix series to explore the darker street-level corridors of the MCU, is a surprisingly adult-themed endeavor, using the gritty world established in Daredevil as a springboard to tell a story of victimization and how different people survive it in different ways. The first half is a very strong psychological […]
Holiday 2014: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
This is the first installment in our Holiday 2014 Review Series, where we’ll take a look at some of our favorite Christmas movies, either traditional or off-kilter. Grab a glass of your favorite eggnog and enjoy! Upon its initial theatrical release – which lasted about a week – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang bombed financially, but […]
Amazon Passes on Silk: Spider Society and Greenlights Noir
The Spider-Verse giveth and the Spider-Verse taketh away. The streaming upfront presentations are happening this week, and today, Amazon had theirs, where they gave an update on a Spider-Man-connected TV show they’ve been developing while not mentioning another. (Neither of them has Spider-Man in it, of course, because we live in the worst era). They […]
REVIEW: Marlowe (2023)
To call Marlowe a wannabe noir film would be to ascribe to it aspirations it doesn’t have. Marlowe isn’t trying to capture a time and place, evoke a particular tone or feel, replicate a form of dialogue, or even basic things like engage you in a mystery or surround you with compelling characters. Marlowe simply […]
Marlowe Trailer Promises a Hard-Boiled Throwback
Raymond Chandler’s legendary detective, Philip Marlowe, is returning to the big screen as Open Road Films has released a trailer for Marlowe. Based on The Black-Eyed Blonde, a continuation of Chandler’s classic mystery series written by John Banville (under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, which he uses to write crime fiction), Marlowe finds the prototypical gumshoe […]
The Naughty List: Five Christmas Crime Movies
Not everyone is nice on Christmas. There are plenty of Christmas movies with love, kindness, family, and charity, but sometimes you’re more in the mood to party with Scrooge before his big reform. For those instances, here are five lumps of coal for the cinematic stocking: Five Christmas Crime Movies. You’ll notice I didn’t say […]