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If so inclined, take a gander at the new and improved website from UK DVD label Exposure Cinema. Not only does it look spiffy but scroll down a little and yours truly is featured there in the form of my reviews for the editions of While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Pretty [...]

Just up, my review of Arrow’s Region B release of Rififi. The UK Blu-ray is a gem. Folks locked to Region A can hope for the Criterion Collection to upgrade its DVD edition in the near future.

It’s going to be tough for anything else to best the Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray of Sweet Smell of Success as my favorite of the year. There’s time, of course, and lots of things could happen. But right now? Hard to imagine a better all around package. It’s so nice to fall in love with a [...]

Exposure Cinema in the UK released Fritz Lang’s While the City Sleeps on DVD about three weeks ago. I finally had the chance to get my hands on a copy the other day and turned in a review of the disc for The Digital Fix. In short, it’s an easy choice between paying something like [...]

It’s a strange analogy but film noir on DVD has become something like an oasis in the desert lately. With the trickle of classic titles at an all-time low in R1, it’s film noir which has stirred the pot this summer. VCI brought out New York Confidential and Olive Films licensed Dark City plus the [...]

There really aren’t that many ice skating noirs. And while that very well could be for the best, the 1946 picture Suspense proves that it’s indeed possible to effectively merge the two worlds of chilly entertainment and even cooler displays of morbid unraveling. Here we have yet another delicious reminder of what we mean when [...]

I have a Noir of the Week entry to share. It’s an appreciation for Robert Montgomery’s Lady in the Lake that I wrote and it went up today. A few weeks ago when I agreed to do the piece December seemed like it would have more time for writing than it’s actually proven to. As [...]

^ That’s the shot from Murder by Contract that leads into Vince Edwards’ hitman Claude posing as a barber and taking the first step in his new career. Great, sly use of humor there. I felt like there was probably more to explore with that film than time and space comfortably allowed in my new [...]

While usually steeped in the anxiety which met and followed World War II, film noir can, on rare occasions, take place prior to the 20th century. There are a few examples set during the Victorian period (with John Brahm’s Hangover Square being a particular standout), but, otherwise, the only director I’m aware of who was [...]