Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

Let’s get right to the point. Walter Neff is a murderer: “Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money, and for a woman. I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman.” Fred MacMurray plays the ...

Film noir is one of the most durable of American film genres, and a timely 75th-anniversary screening of two of its most noteworthy examples demonstrates exactly why. “Double Indemnity” features a ...

Various cinematic waves have been able to capture the essence of the specific time and social landscape on which they're reflecting. Perhaps no wave has been as influential as the noir period of the ...

Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use. We have two Jangles this ...

It would be much easier to try and find any film noir – or noir-adjacent – movies that aren’t heavy at all, or optimistic somehow. This is a whole genre defined by bad times and darkness, with the ...

Let's get right to the point. Walter Neff is a murderer: "Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money, and for a woman. I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman." Fred MacMurray plays the ...

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from Double Indemnity. Let's get right to the point. Walter Neff is a murderer: "Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money, and for a woman. I didn't get ...

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