There are plenty of reasons why someone may not take to Detour, the feature film debut from writer/director Christopher Smith. It’s storytelling methods may confuse many audience members, and the story it tells is rather thin when you try to examine it. Still, Detour’s an adventurous idea, and it’s one well worth your time. As …
For Friday Noir #150, in addition to a well deserved pat on the back, the column will take a look at some of the posters of the classic noir period. Loving movie posters is a curious passion. Today, the one-sheet theatrical poster that hangs in a theatre lobby or is plastered in subway stations or …
Through a series of staged reenactments from his life and from the city’s past, juxtaposed with anecdotes and trivia of varying degrees of believability, Maddin creates a hilarious, haunting, and kaleidoscopic survey of 100 years of Winnipeg, and how he relates to it all.
We can debate all day which comic book hero is cooler: DC or Marvel? Superman or Spiderman? Justice League or The Avengers? Batman or anyone who isn’t cool enough to be Batman? But it’s no question that Marvel has a serious leg-up on DC in the movie business. Outside of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, DC …
Detour Written by Marin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer U.S.A., 1945 The women of film noir, those seductive, cruel creatures baptized ‘femmes fatales’ (French for ‘deadly women’) present a unique sort of challenge for the male protagonists. All too often the latter is at least somewhat aware of the former’s cold …
NCIS, Season 10, Episode 16: “Detour” Written by Steven D. Binder Directed by Mario Van Peebles Airs Tuesdays at 8pm (ET) on CBS Nine months have passed since the devastating attack on NCIS that coincided with Jimmy Palmer’s wedding date. So far, the season has illuminated the residual effects of the incident on every character …
Forty 1940s Films: ‘Detour’ Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, and Edmund MacDonald USA, 67 min – 1945. “Money. You know what that is. It’s the stuff, you never have enough of. Little green things with George Washington’s picture that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for. It’s the stuff …