Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

French critics coined the term “film noir” in 1946 after a series of brooding dramas from wartime Hollywood finally made their French debut. Yet, says Sheri Chinen Biesen, noir is often seen as a ...

The femme fatale trope has long been a mainstay of film noir, from Phyllis Dietrichson in “Double Indemnity” (1944) to Amy Dunne in “Gone Girl.” (2014). Beyond those on the screen, however, many tend ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Classic film noir is where Hollywood’s glamour meets its darkest instincts of shadow-drenched streets, cynical anti-heroes, and dangerous dames. Emerging in the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre ...