Rob St. Mary and Jedidiah Ayres join Mike for The Salton Sea (2002); screenwriter Tony Gayton on Val Kilmer's meth-fueled noir double life.

Every family has its secrets. But in this electric, provocative, and dizzyingly fast-paced horror debut, some families have The Need. “An instant contender for horror novel of the year.”—Joe...

On Friendship Survival Guide, constructed from an archive of loops and sound exchanges, it's as if Jóhann Jóhannsson is alive again. Adam Wiltzie, co-founder of Stars of the Lid and part of A Winged V...

Released the same year as Hard Boiled, and also starring Chow Yun-Fat, Full Contact is a blistering revenge-driven action flick from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.

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Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.

Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.

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For Writers on Writing, behind the scenes with three award-winning, best-selling authors. Tess Gerritsen, Meg Gardiner & Jordan Harper.

To celebrate master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s 127th birthday, and his enduring influence on cinema history far and wide, Travis Woods offers up a starter pack of twenty films inspired by the pionee...

Eagle Rock author Jordan Harper draws on Eastside landmarks, local history and personal experience in his noir thriller “A Violent Masterpiece.”

This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?

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Students at Western Michigan University are helping digitize and organize the case file.