Belgian Neo-Noir!
The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on The Other Laurens (2024), the new Belgian neo-noir from Claude Schmitz with a strong 1970s neo-noir vibe! Read the mostly spoiler-free thoughts here.
Summer Fun Time Reading ’24
Summertime and the living is far from easy, but hopefully it can be easier with these summer fun time (and winter fun time, for our antipodean friends) reading suggestions including horror, fantasy, thrills, chills, adventure, mystery, crime and wisdom from the most advanced civilization on Earth. There are […]
10 Things I Liked in 2023
It is time once again for the end of year lists. When people share the best in film, television, games, comics, and basically all things. I am still terrible at this. So I offer instead an unranked, alphabetical list of some of the things I liked and a […]
Getting Away With It: Diao Yinan’s Neo-Noir
The winds of November are blowing, my friends, chilling our souls in the Musuracan shadows and grayscale skies. Making us hanker for some noir, but grieving over our options on long autumnal nights. Maybe you’ve seen Double Indemnity (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Out of the Past (1947), […]
Marya Gates on the Neo-Noir Podcast!
Marya E. Gates joins the inaugural episode of the Neo-Noir Podcast to discuss “classic noir, neo-noir, and two films that work as examples of both.” Listen here.
“Noir by Gaslight”
At the Criterion blog, Farran Nehme Smith writes about noir, defining noir, and curating Criterion’s “Noir by Gaslight” series. “Recently on the Criterion Channel, I’ve been given the chance to program a collection of films that challenge and complicate the idea of what classic noir is. All are period […]
The Cultural Gutter 