Lucky number 13. Talk about a stroke of film noir fate! The 2023 edition of Noir City Chicago, the annual celebration of mean streets and what the French call “malchance,” gathers a week’s worth of ...

When most of us think of film noir, the soundtrack we hear in our heads is sultry torch singers and forlorn saxophones. Yet noir rarely sounded like that. Most of these classic crime stories of the ...

Yolanda Perdomo is an award-winning journalist and a digital producer for CBS Chicago. Previously, Yolanda was a producer and reporter for WBEZ, WCPN, and WXXI. This year's theme is "Darkness Has No ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- What do you get when you combine the appearance of a fortune teller, a lonesome cowboy, coupled with shady lawyers, a few criminals on the run, police investigations with Chicago ...

The historic theater returns this weekend, fittingly, with the Noir City: Chicago fest, which is an ode to classic cinema. But expect some new flourishes. Moviegoers will see plenty of familiar ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Last week, Melissa Errico blogged about her ongoing “Sondheim in The City” ...

Whether it’s the hardboiled private eye down on his luck or the beautiful but badhearted femme fatale, neo-noir tropes revive the era of film noir. But what exactly is neo-noir, and how does it both ...

Austin is a list writer for Collider, focusing on television. Austin graduated from Florida International University with a degree in English Literature, where he assisted with teaching several film ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...