Neo-noir

From 'House of Cards' to 'Fight Club,' David Fincher's influence is far-reaching in the world of film and television. Here, we take a look at his finest offerings.

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It was Wall Street's Gordon Gecko who infamously said 'Greed is good'. While this simple message is enough to drive ambitious people to success, others can end up very easily driven to madness. Spanish filmmaker Jonathan Cenzual Burley…

The hardest thing to do when filming in Los Angeles is to make the city come to life. It’s featured so regularly in backdrops it begins to feel stale very quickly. There're no such problems in Gemini, though the life Aaron Katz breathes…

Bob Hoskins was a deceptively nuanced actor, hiding great depths behind a permanently frayed temper that sees his characters go into flat out rage in seconds. As eye-catching as these explosions prove, they only succeed because he layers in…

Everyone has to start somewhere, and for Michael Mann’s big screen career it was in 1981 with Thief. Somehow managing to lay down a marker for pretty much his entire filmography to come in just over two hours, it’s an obscenely, stupidly,…

You would think that after No Country For Old Men filmmakers would just give up on neo – noirs set in the desolate wastes of the American south but this year we had Joe, Cold in July, Hellion and to be honest pretty much the whole Edinburgh…

Robert Altman's controversial adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel gave birth to The Long Goodbye in 1973. In typical Altman style, with an acute awareness of genre and a mischievous will to invert generic expectations, The Long Goodbye …