#Neo-noir Crime Thriller

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PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on movie director/producer Ridley Scott, lining up a shot while on the set of 1989 neo-noir/crime thriller film "Black Rain," c. early to mid 1989 (the film was released in September of that same year).

PIC #2: Film director Ridley Scott directing American film actor Michael Douglas on location in Osaka, Japan for the shooting of neo-noir crime thriller film "BLACK RAIN" (1989).

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/371617406736329010 & Reddit.

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LGBTQ Movie of the Day:

Bound

Description:

Violet, the mistress of the gangster Caesar, is in a torrid love affair with Corky. For Violet to dumb Caesar, they formulate a plan to rob millions of dollars of stashed mob cash, blaming him for it.

Title: Bound

Genre: Neo-Noir, Crime, Thriller

Age Rating: 18

Release Date: 1996

Relationships: WLW (Main plot)

Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual (?)

Running Time: 1h 48m

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Box Office: $7 million

Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano

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On October 10, 2006, Point Break was riffed on Rifftrax.

Here's some new creepy Ronald Reagan mask art to celebrate!

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Le Samouraï will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on July 9 via The Criterion Collection. Polly Dedman designed the new cover art for 1967 French neo-noir crime thriller.

Known in English as The Samurai, the film is written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier star.

Le Samouraï has been newly restored in 4K with HDR and uncompressed mono sound. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interviews with writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier

Interviews with Melville on Melville editor Rui Nogueira and Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris author Ginette Vincendeau

Melville-Delon: D’honneur et de nuit - 2011 short documentary exploring the friendship between writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Alain Delon

Trailer

Booklet with an essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville

Alain Delon stars as Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

Pre-order Le Samouraï.

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"But what I know about is Texas."

Blood Simple., 1984.

Dir. & Writ. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | DOP Barry Sonnenfeld

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Se7en (1995) dir. David Fincher

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Giancarlo Esposito in Twilight (1998)

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"There's no rhyme or reason to this life."

JOHN WICK (2014) dir. Chad Stahelski

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Noirvember Movie Review: Se7en (1995)

Title: Se7en Release Date: September 22, 1995 Director: David Fincher Production Company: Arnold Kopelson Productions Main Cast: Brad Pitt as David Mills Morgan Freeman as William Somerset Gwyneth Paltrow as Tracy Mills Richard Roundtree as Martin Talbot R. Lee Ermey as the police captain John C. McGinley as California Kevin Spacey as John Doe Synopsis (via Letterboxd): Two homicide detectives…

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Sugar - season 1 (2024) review

“Sugar (do do do do do do), oh honey honey (do do do do do do)…..” mind you this song isn’t played in the show but I’m glad I was reminded of this banger.

Plot: Private detective John Sugar investigates the disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he unearths Siegel family secrets, old and new.

Nicolas Cage recently got confirmed to be cast in Prime’s live-action Spider-Man spin-off series Noir where he’ll be playing the web-swinging PI, and as much as I’m excited to see Cage brood in black-and-white, there’s currently a perfectly enjoyable noir detective series on Apple TV+ that I haven’t heard anyone talk about. Especially due to its flabbergasting mid-season plot twist that is so laughably out-of-left-field that I’m not sure it’s a good or bad thing. But let’s discuss…

Taking inspiration from the likes of LA Confidential and Chinatown, this neo noir show plays as a greatest hits album of all the tropes of the genre. The first two episodes especially are super enjoyable, through Farrell’s narration, to the slow piano music to the use of black-and-white and crisp cinematography, the entire thing just felt like a vibe. A super cool vibe. Naturally Colin Farrell is a perfect casting choice to play the charming private investigator. He’s got that likeable face you feel you can trust, but enough going on in his expression to give him that element of mystery. Also Farrell looks great in a suit. One has to respect a man that can wear a suit well. Ask Barney Stinson. So the first two episodes are truly awesome. The script wasn’t anything groundbreaking, with Farrell’s inner monologues featuring lines you’d easily find in other neo-noir movies/shows, but just as a collective package this thing felt ace in its first two episodes. There’s also this glossy pastiche of old-school movies that are referenced throughout, reflecting John Sugar’s passion for film and the Hollywood setting. However after that the show slows down, with the central mystery of the missing girl stretched out with pointless baggage around it to fulfill the series episode count. Honestly, this would have worked better as a film rather than a series.

Now in regards to the aforementioned plot twist. I haven’t been so snortingly contemptuous of a reveal since that 2019 fishing thriller Serenity starring Matthew McConaughey that pulls of a ‘bait and switch’ times two with its ending that is so ludicrously random and out of nowhere that I recall truly gasping at the cinema. It’s a terrible twist, but also for a movie that otherwise was utterly boring and bad, that narrative shock at least gave me somewhat of a thrill. So with Sugar at the end of episode 6 a certain reveal happens, that in a way completely changes the entire series. Though one could argue there were a couple of clues in earlier episodes that could have somewhat suggested this twist, in reality I do believe this reveal was a bit of a cheat. It’s an unearned way to grab attention and get a “WHAAAA???” reaction out of the audience, and I thought it came off as a cheap shot. Granted though it gave the meandering show a little boost of energy to the end of the season, but felt so out of place. If the reveal happened earlier, then the show would have had more time to play up to its weird premise.

Sugar is very much a series that is carried by its lead performance (and an adorable doggo), and though the beginning of the season was a strong start, it lost its narrative direction shortly after until that baffling twist that again, I can’t decide if it’s good or bad, but I’m leaning more towards the latter. A good twist needs to have the correct appropriate set-up. The twist in Sugar was more like the showrunners going “psyche - gotcha!”

Overall score: 5/10

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On July 8, 1997, Fargo debuted was released on DVD in the United States.

Here's some new Steve Buscemi art!

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A Simple Plan will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on November 19 via Arrow Video. Matt Griffin designed the new cover art for the 1998 Academy Award nominee; the original poster is on the reverse side.

Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) directs the neo-noir crime thriller from a script by Scott B. Smith (The Ruins), based on his own 1993 novel of the same name. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda star.

The film has been newly remastered in 4K from the original negative, approved by Raimi, with Dolby Vision and original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio and lossless stereo audio. Special features are listed below, where you can also see more of the packaging.

Special features:

Audio commentary by critics Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme (new)

Audio commentary by production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein with filmmaker Justin Beahm (new)

Interview with cinematographer Alar Kivilo (new)

Interview with actor Becky Ann Baker (new)

Interview with actor Chelcie Ross (new)

On-set interviews with Sam Raimi, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Jane Fonda, and producer Jim Jacks

Behind-the-scenes footage

Theatrical trailer

Booklet with new writing on the film by Bilge Ebiri and an excerpt from John Kenneth Muir's book The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi

Hank Mitchell (Bill Paxton) and his wife Sarah (Bridget Fonda) have big dreams and a baby on the way, but are stuck in the small Minnesota town where Hank grew up alongside his sweet but naive brother Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton). One day while walking in the woods, Hank, Jacob, and Jacob’s friend Lou (Brent Briscoe) discover a small plane buried in the snow, with a dead pilot inside… and a duffel bag containing over $4 million in cash. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to grasp the American dream in one fell swoop, if they can just keep it a secret – but Hank soon learns that keeping that secret will come at a terrible cost.

Pre-order A Simple Plan.

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Thief (1981)

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After so many movies reviewed, this one really leapt at me. I think because I can’t really tell what it is. A lot of it is subtext and open to interpretation. Is it cathartic? Is it allegorical to being stuck in society? Did the characters have arcs or did they remain true to who they were all along?

The violent scenes are really violent, but seldom shown outright on camera. Watch only if you can tolerate violence(against children, self-harm, non-cathartic violence).

Hopeless (Korean: 화란; Hanja: 禍亂; RR: Hwaran) is a 2023 South Korean neo-noir thriller film directed by Kim Chang-hoon and starring Hong Xa-bin, Song Joong-ki and Bibi.