For the most part, I was completely engrossed by The Good Liar. A watertight plot, compelling performances from Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren -- their best outside their usual roles. To me, it seemed to herald an earlier time when a detec...
Well if it has to happen, I suppose a Chinatown series from David Fincher and original screenwriter Robert Towne is the way it should happen. Word has broken that a series serving as a prequel to the Polanski classic is in development over ...
I don’t need to direct you to Avengers: Endgame’s historic $1.3 billion opening weekend this summer to show that we’ve been populating a computer-generated era. Even the phrase CGI to me seems to...
For as copious and dime-a-dozen film noir crime stories were at a time, and how prolific their influence has remained over the decades, there's always the odd film that comes along that puts its own little spin on the formula. The tropes ar...
It had been rumored that Leonardo DiCaprio was circling Guillermo del Toro's Shape of Water follow-up film, though those rumors seemed to wither with the news of Bradley Cooper's interest in the project, with DiCaprio passing. Cooper's invo...
Motion Pixels is a series of haphazard articles hoping to link the passions of gaming and films. Through recommendations, general chicanery, and, sometimes, analysis our hope is to set you, dear reader, on a path of exploration you might no...
We are so close to Veronica Mars relaunching that there is no way this is a dream. I've been a big fan of the series since my wife forced me to watch it, and it turned out she was very right (as she usually is) in that it was a good s...
The full lineup has been announced for Columbia University’s second annual Kit Film Noir Festival, which runs from Wednesday, March 27th to Sunday, March 31st at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. The theme of this year’s festival...
Hotel Artemis, like some cool, hole-in-the-wall motel you find on a road trip, has promise. You think it looks cool and a bit retro, and it'll have heart. Not like those big chain hotels that cost twice as much. It'll be an adventure stayin...
Drew Goddard delivered unto us one of the most genre-bending films of the decade with Cabin in the Woods, and then went off and wrote a few wildly successful screenplays and TV shows leaving us a bit hungry to see what he was going to...
Margot Robbie is killing it right now, and from the looks of it she's going to kill it again with the weird, trippy and utterly noir Terminal. The film got its first teaser trailer today and it doesn't show much, but it does seem both cree...
First Los Angeles takes the Chargers from San Diego, now through the help of the new movie Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles will actually annex a portion of San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter and transport it into the future. Alright so it won't act...
It's been 16 years since Remedy came out with its bullet-time introducing pulp-noir shooter Max Payne and since then the game has turned into a cult-classic, spawning two sequels. The games always wore their noir cinematic influences on ...
The first Assassin's Creed isn't out yet, but already there's speculation about a potential sequel. Such is the case with franchise-launching movies. If director Justin Kurzel had his druthers, he'd like to bring the story from the Spanish ...
There's something a little off about The Nice Guys. It should work really well. Two great actors who play off each other fantastically with director/writer Shane Black bringing his talents back to the neo-noir genre. Plus, it's all set in t...
Inherent Vice is a good movie. It's a good movie you're probably going to want to see twice just so you can get everything out of it. It's a bit complicated. Why not make one of those times absolutely free? Then see it again with your ...
Sin City has always had a special place in my heart. Way back in 2005, when the first film came out, I was in my senior yearo f high school, taking Film as Art. One of our assignments was to write a paper on a film we see in theaters, ...
While it might not be the most original idea ever, considering Blade Runner, is the epitome of neo-Noir films, this cleverly done trailer does have something going for it. YouTube user Chet Desmond put it together, pulling Blade Runner ...
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 CIFF, and it's...
[Flixist will be attending the 48th Chicago International Film Festival over the next few weeks. Be sure to follow along as we bring you coverage from the longest-running competitive international film festival in the country. You can easil...
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 like the film god...
A while back this birdy dropped some concept art for The Happytime Murders, a noir film done with puppets from the Henson people. No word what happened to the source, but I figure the bird's singing them canary tunes in a concrete cage in t...
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 news interest ...
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. Rodriguez's reputat...
Got back from the city and there was an email about some new Henson project called The Happytime Murders. It's a proposed noir picture done with puppets. Think Roger Rabbit, but plush instead of paint. It looked Dillinger, like a couple fin...
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 Deen to play on...
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 most recent news ...
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 inspired by the scorp...
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 that front. He ha...
Noirs are hard to come by in this day and age, although we here at Flixist are big fans of the genre. For the moment, America seems loath to produce any, so we must turn to our English-speaking brethren across the pond. Brighton Rock is an ...
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 minutes. We mo...
Back when the first Sin City came out, I was a senior in high school. I needed to see a film to dissect for my Film as Art class, so I of course went to see the movie with half-naked Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke in a prosthetic face, and Bru...
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 director Paul Berczel...
So first off, an apology. We totally meant to have this ready for just after Noir Week. Then, as it happened, things went pear shaped. I moved, Bob moved, Pixar Week happened, and that all compounds with the fact that we lovely gents t...
[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. Throughout the next...
[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. Throughout the next ...
[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. Throughout the next wee...
[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. Throughout the next wee...
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. Throughout the...
[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. Throughout the ne...
