The 1930s decade (and most of the 1940s as well) has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was black-and-white). The 30s was also the ...

In director Robert Altman's deconstructed, post-noir mystery crime-thriller/drama - the revisionist film was criticized for taking liberties and degrading the familiar Raymond Chandler character (in ...

In director Harold Becker's Hitchcock-like, erotic, neo-noir, who-dun-it crime thriller - it told about an investigation by a NYC detective into a series of 'lonely-hearts' murders committed by a ...

In writer/director Peter Greenaway's cruel, over-the-top, truth-telling film - it was designed as a metaphoric and allegorical criticism showing contempt for the wasteful and barbaric upper-class ...