Books · Hollywood · Neo-Noir 0 Books: The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood November 6, 2020 Sam Wasson, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (New York: Flatiron Books, 2020). * * * Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye tells the irresistible tale of[…]
Crime · Neo-Noir · Writers & Critics 0 8 Million Ways to Die (1986): An Autopsy of the Great L.A. Noir That Never Was October 13, 2019 So what the fuck happened? * * * 8 Million Ways to Die is a mess. Not a glorious mess, or an interesting mess. It’s not a fiasco on the[…]
Neo-Noir 2 The Birth of Night Moves: Alan Sharp on the Edge of America June 7, 2019 The movie’s reviews were mixed, and it failed to make a profit in the summer of 1975. . . . but Night Moves has gone on to be recognised as[…]