Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

Take the two highest-rated noir films on Rotten Tomatoes ... and the film's "moral is either anti-social or, at best, obscure." At least two of these early reviews, interestingly, lightly accuse ...

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns for ... an eclectic mix of black and white movies from the 1940s and 1950s — some prestigious, some obscure. It also features a few special ...