Noir
Reptile (2023) – Slow burn predictable
Dir: Grant Singer Cast: Benicio del Toro. Alicia Silverstone. Justin Timberlake. Eric Bogosian. The Netflix algorithm keeps pushing films at you based on your “past viewing history”. As if it almost had a mind of its own (AI, anyone?). I have willingly ignored some movies, and others rouse my curiosity to check whether my…
Read MoreDogs of Berlin (2018) – gritty, violent, seamy, Berlin Noir
Noir. A genre of American filmmaking that came into its own during WW2 and the mid to late 1940s and gradually faded in the 1950s. The French were the first to identify it and give it a different name – noir in French means black. Generally, it signifies a specific style of filmmaking with specific…
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