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The Alternative Christmas Movies

Take a walk on the wild side of Christmas movies with a selection of seasonal films that you may have overlooked.

The Sexiest Female Psychos In The Cinema

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A selection of the most alluringly deranged female killers in the film world.

Noirvember: Crime Wave

Continuing our crime cinema month with a look at a standard 1953 drama that becomes quintessential noir thanks to dialogue, characterisation and visual style.

Noirvember: The Murderer Lives At 21

Continuing our crime month with a look at Henri-Georges Clouzot’s lightweight murder mystery shot during the German occupation of France.

Noirvember: Youth Of The Beast

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Continuing our crime movie season with a look back at what is perhaps the most outrageously delirious Japanese underworld film ever made.

Noirvember: The Last Seduction

Sex, crime and double-crosses galore in the classic 1994 neo-noir.

Noirvember: The Naked City

Our crime movie series continues with a look at the classic, pioneering police procedural that spawned a popular TV series.

Noirvember: Portrait Of Alison

Continuing our crime movie month with a look at a flawed but interesting film adaptation of a BBC serial from 1955.

Noirvember: Walk A Tightrope

Continuing our crime cinema series with an unexpectedly gritty and twisted British B-movie thriller from the 1960s.

Noirvember: He Ran All The Way

Our crime cinema retrospective continues with a look at one of the most impressive and paranoid thrillers of the 1950s.

Noirvember: The House Across The Lake

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A pre-gothic Hammer Films crime melodrama that is better than you might expect.

Noirvember: An Introduction

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Setting the scene for our month of Film Noir reviews – and explaining why we are refusing to take a narrow view of just what ‘noir’ is.