Neo-Noirs

Daniel Calparsoro’s Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2020) is a Spanish thriller on Netflix, and so it was composed with the World Wide Web in mind for its target demographic. However, this is…

“Someone’s always watching…” Such is the tagline for The Night Clerk (2020), the straight-to-home-rental crime drama from Michael Cristofer. Weaving the yarn of a voyeuristic everyman desperate to prove his innocence, it emulates Sir Alfred…

A Simple Favor, released last month, is a bizarre cocktail of murder, mystery, and a sexy, suave elegance. Although it’s not a perfect film, its themes harken back to the style of a bygone era…