‘Stars & Screen’ Cinema & Media History Virtual Symposium | May 16, 2026 Next Saturday! You can find the whole program on line here and you can attend by RSVPing on the page. Here’s my subject (though I’ve only got 15 minutes so it may be a little bare bones): Haunted: Where Gothic Bleeds into…
Tag: noir
Losing My Religion
It being Sid James’ birthday today, here’s a little story I wrote some years back under another moniker (recently booted from his Twitter account, I find, having forgotten there was one). Like a lot of my Graham Wynd stories it’s a bit of crime and a bit of a laugh and you don’t have to…
‘Stars & Screen’ Virtual Symposium
I’m pleased to be giving a presentation on the borderline between Gothic and Noir using the films Ivy and Bedelia at the Cinema & Media History Virtual Symposium, 16 May 2026. Good news: it’s online and free to attend this whole day of presentations on a wide variety of films starting at 10am Eastern Time…
Noir: Flicka och Hyacinter (1950)
This film was mentioned on #filmsky and did not disappoint. A little Laura and a bit of The Seventh Victim, so like the latter should have cautions about it dealing rather grimly with suicide. We’re thrown in media res with people at a sort of party and then we see Dagmar (Eva Henning) leave to…
Review: The Conjure Man Dies
Rudolph Fisher’s 1932 novel The Conjure Man Dies evokes both the Harlem Renaissance and Golden Age mysteries as well as embodying in important ways the more authentic voice of the streets that Dashiell Hammett had begun to make sing. Of course Fisher’s voice remains distinct from all of these: a polymath who studied to be…
Matinee: Quiet Please, Murder (1942)
Among the more obscure of films noir: George Sanders (although too little of him), Gail Patrick as the femme fatale she’s always meant to be, and Richard Denning with some well floppy hair. A winner because it’s set in the stolen/forged book racket and mostly in a library. Some library! Not only does it have…
Review: The Get Off – Christa Faust
The thriller killer trilogy ends with The Get Off. Angel Dare’s adventures began with Money Shot and continued with Choke Hold, the latter I read on a train ride in Finland and was so captivated with its breakneck pace that I immediately read it again. It’s hard to believe that Christa Faust can get even…
Surreal Noir Ep6 on YT
EPISODE SIX Original Audio 23 Dec 21 Episode Six: In the darkest days of the year we tend to hide; with good reason – who knows what might lurk in the dark. Even if it’s only a couple of teenage girls…but wait. Why are their hands so bloody? This episode explores the fact, fiction, and…
Dundee Radio Club 7-9 Feb 25
The broadcast begins at 2pm (UK) on Friday (7/2) and runs through to the afternoon of Sunday 9th. You can listen via the player that will go live on our website tomorrow ~ dundeeradio.club So pleased to be joining the gang at Dundee Radio Club. Check out all the various listening experiences that will be playing the…
Surreal Noir Ep 5 on YT
EPISODE FIVE [Original air date 24 Nov 21] Episode Five: Noirvember musings include stalkers, loneliness, travel and cows. Well, one cow anyway. This month noir fans watch the whole range of films that fall under that capacious umbrella, often including neo-noir along with the traditional black and white films from the 40s and 50s. *Content cautions for…