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Escape: …Starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer, Unfortunately
How could I forget this one. . .
Jan 7
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Emotional Taxidermy: Why MGM Movies Break Your Heart But Don’t Touch Your Soul
Happy New Year let's talk about MGM: A studio so polished, even the trauma had to pass a screen test.
Dec 31, 2025
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The Women of Nightmare Alley and the Long Con of Intimacy
How Stanton Carlisle's relationships with Zeena, Molly and Lilith reveal the dark side of the intersection between seduction and ambition.
Dec 29, 2025
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The Diner in Film Noir (Part 1)
Nov 7, 2024
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The Diner in Film Noir (Part 2)
Nov 18, 2024
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The Movies that Made Me #1 - From This Day Forward (1946)
Jun 4, 2025
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The Movies that Made Me #2 - Humoresque (1946)
Jul 10, 2025
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Pre-Code Confidential #5: The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Sep 17, 2024
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The Stalking of Bebe Daniels
Feb 8, 2025
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Stan, you've got to stop. . .you're going against God!
Tyrone Power's Stanton Carlisle is one my favorite bad boys of film noir
Dec 16, 2025
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A Hooligan with a thing for horses. . .
Sterling Hayden's Dix "don't bone me" Handley is one my favorite bad boys of film noir
Dec 9, 2025
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JOHNNY, SUCH A HARD NAME TO REMEMBER, SUCH AN EASY NAME TO FORGET
The striptease of emotional repression in Gilda (1946)
Nov 21, 2025
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Smith Ohlrig, Leonora Eames and the Gilded Cage of Max Ophüls’ domestic nightmare noir Caught (1949)
Nov 4, 2025
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No Easy Homecoming: Love, Trauma, and the Veteran on Screen
Oct 31, 2025
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After the Parades: Hollywood’s Battle with Coming Home
How postwar Hollywood tried to heal a nation and how film noir revealed the wounds that wouldn’t close.
Oct 10, 2025
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From the pages of Photoplay, 1937
Movie magazines of the 1930s gave fans a rare chance to see their favorite stars in vivid color.
Sep 25, 2025
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