Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

From Vera to Kill Bill, the trench coat is a pop culture mainstay. And this season’s styles, at all budgets, have some ...

In The Long Goodbye (1973), Elliott Gould plays Philip Marlowe—the noir detective originated by Dick Powell and immortalized on screen by Humphrey Bogart—as five-o’clock shadow personified. From the ...

One hundred years after he was born, we salute the fury and intensity of Rod Steiger’s presence on screen, from On the Waterfront to In the Heat of the Night.

Finally caught up with Steven Soderbergh’s sleek little spy thriller “Black Bag” last weekend, and while the life of an ...

At the center of the litigation is a 1935 precedent called Humphrey’s Executor, which has protected independent agency members. The decision was called out for targeting in Project 2025 ...

When you think of film noir movies, you may assume they’re predominantly American. While this isn’t true, it’s a fact that ...

An Avon & Somerset detective who faked working from home by weighing down keys on her laptop keyboard for more than 46 hours over 15 shifts has been sacked without notice. Det Con Philippa ...

Star of classic films such as Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart would often keep a cigarette dangling between his lips until the cigarette was almost gone. Bogarting became slang for consuming something ...

Humphrey Bogart tells us he knows what Edward G. Robinson’s character, the racketeer Johnny Rocco, wants – he wants more. As long as some tech giants pursue the same strategy of wanting more ...

The detective interrogated the accused before they implicated Joshlin's mother, Kelly Smith, as the mastermind behind her daughter's disappearance. Kelly Smith (right), Jaquen Appollis and Stevano ...

The detective who led interviews in the Joshlin Smith disappearance investigation has denied claims that Steveno van Rhyn was tortured to extract a confession implicating others. Six-year-old ...