“The Postwar Noirs of Carol Reed” by Anees Aref

REVIEW ESSAY: “Guilt, betrayal, disillusionment, war – the themes in these films are crafted with the precision of, indeed, a cuckoo clock.”

“An Auteur’s High Points –The Greatest Gangster Movie You’ve Never Seen: Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “A candid and insightful look into Ferrara’s creative process….”

“A New Sensation: Elizabeth Fenwick’s Disturbance on Berry Hill/A Night Run” by William Blick

BOOK REVIEW: “Fenwick’s work is unlikely to shock audiences like sensation fiction had done to the Victorians, but the domestic realism and colorful characters are likely to engage the avid mystery aficionado.”

“The City as a Character: Andrew J. Rausch’s The Taking of New York City” by Brian Greene

BOOK REVIEW: “A comprehensive catalogue of NYC-centric crime movies from the 1970s….”

“Round Like a Circle in a Spiral: The Poster Art of Film Noir” by Marlisa Santos

REVIEW ESSAY: “As the movie-viewing public was becoming more comfortable with these kinds of filmic depictions, poster art, never to shy away from marketing hooks, aimed to tantalize prospective audiences with images that promised entrance into a suspenseful world of increasingly commonplace criminality and subversion of systemic stability….”

Preview: “Steven Zaillian’s Ripley: Neo-Noir or Revisionary Noir?”

REVIEW ESSAY: “Many aspects of Zaillian’s series, both thematic and visual, make it an almost perfect example of neo-noir. Yet, in other ways, Ripley goes beyond the original noir cycle in ways that are reminiscent of the best revisionary noir films.”

“Out of the Shadows: Neil Jordan’s Marlowe” by Anees Aref

FILM REVIEW: “Kudos to Jordan, screenwriter William Monahan, Liam Neeson and company for bringing the private eye out of the shadows again.”

“Grim Fatale: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale Compendium” by Brian Greene

GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: “Originally issued over 24 installments between 2012-14, the entire series is now conveniently collected between one set of covers in Image Comics’s new compendium edition.”

Preview: “Three from Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024” by Theresa Rodewald

FILM FESTIVAL REPORT: Theresa Rodewald reports on noir programming at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024….

“No-Nonsense Noir: Death Comes Too Late” by Brian Greene

BOOK REVIEW: “This collection features the kind of spare, no-nonsense stuff you’d expect from a noir aficionado like Charles Ardai, the co-founder and editor of Hard Case Crime….”