HollywoodandFine.com Love and murder – are there more crucial or basic ingredients for a good story? It’s like cooking and starting with chicken or beef stock: They are the building blocks from which the best recipes are constructed. Charlie Stratton’s “In Secret” is based on Emile Zola’s “Therese Raquin” – …
HollywoodandFine.com Though billed as a Russian film noir, “Elena” skimps on the noir and more’s the pity. Instead, it’s a disciplined, controlled and ultimately disappointing drama of family tension and murder. The crime does not go unpunished, but the punishment seems mild to the point of nonexistence. Nadezhda Markina plays …
This year’s blogathon masterminded by The Self-Styled Siren and Ferdy On Films and deploying a murderers’ row of dozens of bloggers, is seeking donations for the Film Noir Foundation. Specifically, they will go to fund the restoration of Cy Enfield’s “The Sound of Fury” (1950) with Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges, …
