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Noir

The Stranger (1946) – Superb Noir Mystery

All clickable links in red   Genre – Mystery , Noir Time: 1 Hour 30 minutes Platform: Your Tube – Free Director: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles. Loretta Young. Edward G Robinson.   Horror movies usually have a standard formula. Someone – usually the heroine or a female character – lets in a person or…

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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…

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Dogs 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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