Movies is Good: Thirteen Great Gangster Movies

 by JB

I’m guessing my readers are well-versed in the classics of this particular genre— Your Godfathers, your Scarfaces, your Untouchableses. Here are some lesser-known, dynamite gangster flicks. Pow! Pow! Pow!

Dispatches from Noir City (Days 4-7)

by Rosalie Lewis

The final curtain has fallen on Noir City Chicago 2019 at the Music Box Theatre, and I’m already pining for next year’s festival lineup. I’ve already shared my thoughts on the first three days of the fest -- now let’s dive into the rest of the week’s offerings.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: The Killing

For the next few weeks, Dear Reader, I intend to take you on a grim and rain-glazed trip to the Big City after dark. We will become embroiled in crime, we will fall in love with the wrong dame, we will find ourselves in over our heads, and we will ultimately be destroyed by corruption, avarice, and our own blackest motivations.

It’ll be fun! Won’t you come along?