Author Archives: Christa Faust

Remember how I was complaining in my previous post that NORTHSIDE 777 wasn’t really noir? Well, this double bill certainly is, and then some! First up, I WALK ALONE. Ride-or-die bootleggers Frankie (Burt Lancaster) and Dink (Kirk Douglas) have an… Read More

Yesterday’s matinee was THE HUNTED. Hot blond on ice Belita is a Noir City favorite and I’ve written this one up (more than once.) When you’ve been in this racket as long as I have, you get to the point… Read More

First up, our matinee HOLLOW TRIUMPH. I love this cheap and dirty mistaken identity noir, a lesser-known gem that I’ve seen multiple times and have written up before. I won’t bother to review it in detail again other than to… Read More

It’s that most wonderful time of year again, Faustketeers. Time for Noir City Hollywood! Only this time, it’s a different time of year, in a different part of the city and I’m not even in that city anymore. As most… Read More

Heading into the Noir City trenches this weekend, Faustketeers, so I figured I’d get you all warmed up with this very important and not at all silly list I made and posted a while back on the Bad Place formerly… Read More

I’ve been living this strange half and half life over the past year. Half in LA and half up in Gig Harbor WA with Lady V, my elderly mom who lost her partner right around this time last year. I… Read More

It’s been A Year. Here are some things that happened in 2022. I published a kinky new comic series with AWA called HIT ME. I got new author photos. I like them. I got a hard deadline on my current… Read More

It has come to my attention that my 2010 article about ceramic artist Dorothy Kindell has disappeared into the slipstream of the ever-ephemeral interwebs, not unlike the subject of the article itself. So I figured I’d stash it here, for… Read More

It’s Ladies’ Night in Noir City because today’s triple bill features flicks that focus on the female POV. I’ve seen and written up all three, but I’m always down for a rewatch. Especially my all time favorite prison film, CAGED!… Read More

A midnight phone call. A sudden death in the family. A big empty house on a cliff. A mysterious, solitary woman looking out over the turbulent water. Plot twist: this is real life, not some black and white flick. Smash… Read More