We’ve reached the end of the line, Faustketeers. The final night of this year’s Noir City Hollywood is officially in the books, so let’s get right into it. First up, a rare B programmer, BODYGUARD. I wrote this one up… Read More

First up, THE SPIRITUALIST aka THE AMAZING MR. X I didn’t like this flick at first, but as the initially goofy spook-plot started to tip its hand and reveal what it was really about, I changed my tune. And not… Read More

Even if you can’t watch them all, you’re definitely not gonna want to miss RAW DEAL. Claire Trevor is all set to bust her man out of the big house when she finds out there’s another dame in the equation,… Read More

We kicked off last night’s double feature with TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Dick Powell plays a treasury agent whose hunt for the elusive and mysterious leader of an international opium smuggling ring takes him to the titular ends… Read More

Noir City goes west in this hardboiled cowboy double feature staring (belated) birthday boy and one of Noir City’s favorite Leos, Robert Mitchum. First up BLOOD ON THE MOON. Laconic lone-wolf cowboy Robert Mitchum is reunited with old pal Robert… Read More

First up CRY OF THE CITY Severely wounded but unrepentant cop killer Rome (Richard Conte) escapes from a secure hospital ward, but his childhood pal Lieutenant Candella (Victor Mature) is hot on his tail. The plot, involving a sleazeball lawyer,… Read More

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

I recently got it in my head to catalog every single film/show/polaroid in which Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is in bondage. The result was an epic, wild and not entirely tidy Twitter thread. However, this important scholarly research clearly needed… Read More

It’s been A Year. Again. Next year looks to be more of the same and then some. But this isn’t one of those “how about that 2021?” Happy Fucking New Year type of posts. I want to talk about not… Read More

2020 has been a lot. The list of things that have gotten fucked up, gone sideways or just flat out gone is far too long to hold the fragile, traumatized attention of the mayfly internet. So I’m just gonna talk… Read More

Another outstanding film festival in the can, and this time it’s the end of a first. The first virtual visit to Noir City. Readers, I have FEELINGS. We’ve all been through (and are still going through) a lot since COVID… Read More