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2:00 PM on 10.24.2012

Flix for Short: Paul

With a mix of puppetry and live action, Paul, brought to you by Adam Bizanski, follows the titular Paul as he investigates a robbery of his house in the seedy underbelly of his city. Paul won Best Narrative Short at the...

Nick Valdez



CIFF Review: A F*ckload of Scotch Tape photo
CIFF Review: A F*ckload of Scotch Tape
by Geoff Henao


12:00 PM on 09.11.2012

Kickstart the incredibly-casted Hotel Noir

While not exactly an expert of film noir by any means, I am deeply interested in the genre. Film noir tends to be so nuanced in both style and substance, when a film actually captures what makes the genre so amazing, it's li...

Geoff Henao



Puppet noir film The Happytime Murders going for R rating photo
Puppet noir film The Happytime Murders going for R rating
by Hubert Vigilla


5:00 PM on 06.22.2012

Alan Moore to work in film of own volition

In the sad way that certain artists come to be known more for succulent ancillary gossip rather than their actual contributions, Alan Moore, like an actor who happens to enjoy rodent-based anal pleasantries, has seen the most...

Jason Savior

2:00 PM on 04.13.2012

Sin City 2 goes into production with A Dame To Kill For

Robert Rodriguez has been talking up a sequel to his 2005 adaptation of co-director Frank Miller's Sin City for years now, to the extent of the project becoming a joke amongst fans who never expected to see it on-screen. Rodr...

Xander Markham



The Happytime Murders: concept art for a puppet film noir photo
The Happytime Murders: concept art for a puppet film noir
by Hubert Vigilla


12:00 PM on 03.06.2012

The Canyons from Schrader and Ellis shoots in July

It was just over a month ago when we reported Brett Easton Ellis working with Paul Schrader on a noir film. Ellis had teased on Twitter that it would be a sexy thriller of some kind, and he'd ideally want male pornstar James ...

Hubert Vigilla

7:00 PM on 01.23.2012

Bret Easton Ellis doing noir for Paul Schrader & pornstar

Not too long ago, the magick of Twitter revealed that Kanye West was in talks to become creative director of the Jetsons movie. For a while everyone thought it was just Kanye being Kanye, but oddly enough, it was true. The mo...

Hubert Vigilla

11:00 AM on 12.09.2011

Drive sequel novel and Drive-inspired menswear in 2012

A bit of Drive-related news for the end of the week. Unfortunately none of it is hot dog related, but let's just try to stay positive, everyone. First of all, menswear designer Bernardo Rojo is creating a clothing line inspir...

Hubert Vigilla

2:00 PM on 08.29.2011

William Monahan will polish Sin City 2 script

Robert Rodriguez has been talking for over five years about making a sequel to Sin City, his acclaimed adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, but has proven himself in recent years to be more Mexican't than Mexican on th...

Xander Markham



Review: Brighton Rock photo
Review: Brighton Rock
by Alec Kubas-Meyer


4:00 PM on 08.19.2011

Flixist Movie Club: M-cast: Cereal Killer

Jesus, Flixist Movie Club is just flying off the rails. This show's, what, just over an hour long? I think we talk about Fritz Lang's M, the subject of tonight's show, for maybe, maybe half an hour. More like twenty ...

Alex Katz



Sin City 2 finally happening, according to Rodriguez photo
Sin City 2 finally happening, according to Rodriguez
by Sean Walsh


12:00 PM on 07.25.2011

Kim Jong Il film noir is a thing that is happening

We here at Flixist are pretty big fans of the film noir genre. There aren't a lot of them around these days, but they do exist. If producer Jeremy Thomas (notable for Crash [the 1996 one], 13 Assassins, and others) and direct...

Alec Kubas-Meyer



Flixist Movie Club: Brickcast photo
Flixist Movie Club: Brickcast
by Alex Katz




Review: Chinatown photo
Review: Chinatown
by Sean Walsh




Flixist Faves: The ten best film noir photo
Flixist Faves: The ten best film noir
by Matthew Razak




Review: The Black Dahlia photo
Review: The Black Dahlia
by Andres Bolivar




Losing My Virginity: Mulholland Drive photo
Losing My Virginity: Mulholland Drive
by Andrew Kauz




4:00 PM on 05.14.2011

I Can Get You A Toe: Noir in The Big Lebowski

In celebration of the forthcoming release of L.A. Noire, Flixist has teamed up with its sister sites Japanator and Destructoid to give a bit of background on what noir (we're spelling it that way) is all about. ...

Sam Membrino



An open love letter to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang photo
An open love letter to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
by Andres Bolivar