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Next week, you will all find out the results of the Noirvember ’55 draft being held this weekend with my friends, Sergio Angelini and Nick Cardillo. In a quick aside, if you can’t get enough of film noir, you really should be listening to Sergio’s podcast, Tipping My Fedora, where he talks to all sorts of experts and fans about anything noir – movie...
At last we reach the final trio of films on our 36-title list of 1955 films noirs. What a ride it has been! A revisit to a few old favorites, a discovery of new delights . . . and a whole lot of titles that, out of kindness, I will simply say fit into a decidedly mixed bag! The last three reviews are below, and – wouldn’t you know it? – there’s one final film that ma...
My annual Secret Santa book exchange is often a lesson in SUSPENSE!!!! That’s because most of the participants in our game live across the water, and you never know exactly when the package will arrive!! Imagine my SHOCK!!!! when I received a MYSTERIOUS!!!! package in early October and discovered a stack of objects ensconced in cheerful Christmas wr...
“’Someone, you know, someone had shoved her head down into the water with the apples. Shoved her down and held her there, so that she was dead, of course. Drowned. Drowned. Just in a galvanized iron bucket, nearly full of water. Kneeling there, sticking her head down to bob at an apple. I hate apples,’ said Mrs. Oliver. ‘I never want to see an apple again . . .’”
...We’re coming close to the end of our 36-film list of films noir for our upcoming Noirvember draft. (Here’s the entire list.) And, as often happens when you reach the end, we’re finding ourselves at the bottom of the glass, ...
