When it comes to classic cinema, the film noir genre ranks as one of the most fascinating and reached its peak during the 1940s with the rise in pulp fiction and detective novels. Titles such as Gilda ...

For several decades, the film noir genre has withstood the hands of time and was initially popularized by classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and Double Indemnity. By the 1960s, the ...

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...

Classic Hollywood has a somewhat unearned reputation for being easy, cheerful viewing, full of giddy musicals and sweet love stories. Film noir of the 1940s and ‘50s cut right through these ...

The Carpenter Center will turn into a sexy and romantic old-style Hollywood lounge as Tony Award-nominated singer Melissa Errico brings music inspired by noir films to the Long Beach stage during a ...