Veronica Mars Season 4
Like all noir protagonists, Veronica continues to be the instrument of her own demise – don’t expect that to change anytime soon.
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Tag Archives: Noir
Altered Carbon
Because if Blade Runner 2049 taught us anything, it’s that future noir is just as obsessed with dead naked women as old-fashioned noir.
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Blade Runner 2049
I have no doubt that if Ridley Scott himself had been behind the camera, rather than simply producing, it would have been much worse.
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Goldstone
To a certain extent, this is more of the same. Desolate setting, dodgy laid-back country folk who speak in single syllables, if at all.
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The Nice Guys
From a screenwriting standpoint, it’s excellent. No one gets structure and dialogue like Black, and the pacing is spot on.
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The Blue Room
The Blue Room oozes noir. It isn’t quite as heavy on the shadows – in fact it’s often brightly lit – but the framing itself is reminiscent of simpler cinematic times.
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Nightcrawler
I have no idea just how close to reality Nightcrawler veers, but with a bit of a mental squint, the world it describes doesn’t seem that different to our own.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
If you’re a fan of the first film, or indeed of the comics, I’m not sure how you could find fault with A Dame to Kill For. It feels like more Sin City, basically.
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Veronica Mars
The script is as sharp as ever, and all the feminist, postmodernist, Raymond-Chandler-meets-Nancy-Drew elements are present and correct.
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Drive
What is remarkable about Drive is the assurance with which Refn and his cast deal with the material. The film features a wonderful opening sequence that defines the lead character and his world with effortless grace, and then follows that bravura entr
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