# film noir (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 13 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover film noir. Page: Feed: --- ## [Fight Song!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/fight-song.html) _2026-08-21 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ I 'd gladly follow her into any battle with this song in the lead- a beautifully infectious, somewhat quirky, and highly melodic song ( with a long convoluted history) as are many in Sinead's repertoire . Her rendition captivating and life affirming- as was she... ## [The Nerd Reich](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-nerd-reich.html) _2026-08-18 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ ## [House of the Rising Sons](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/house-of-the-rising-sons/) _2026-08-18 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ MINNELLI MISFITS Unlike other Minnelli Misfits (and his dramas in general), 1960’s HOME FROM THE HILL is – sordidness and all – IMO one of the director’s finest; for those skeptics, it is now on triumphant display in all its tarnished glory from The Warner Archive Collection. The story, based upon William Humphrey’s bestseller, concerns … Continue reading House of the Rising Sons → ## [Ce La Vie...](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/ce-la-vie.html) _2026-08-16 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Really enjoyed this ( Celui qui tombe ), not even the music (which I didn't particularly) could stop me from liking it. And it works on so many levels- as both sculpture and dance, love and confusion, and anything and everything we experience in life, art, and loss... ## [Feeling Groovy!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/feeling-groovy.html) _2026-08-14 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Really need to get my mind off the usual lunacy we are forced to live with on a daily basis, so how 'bout a nice lighthearted musical melody to soothe the nerves and bring in the weekend... So all you younger readers, aspiring musicians, and sailors trapped on aircraft carriers for almost a year with no goddamn end in sight, eating a hamburger patty with a scoop of rice (then hoping to find a… ## [The Tell Tale Heart](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-tell-tale-heart.html) _2026-08-12 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ So... Trump, with the aid of the Secret Service, plays his little, Top Secret, Three Card Monty, Now Ya See Me, Now Ya Don't, food container/airplane disappearing act to avoid a possible Iranian assassination attempt. Deftly played! And let's just forget those loser reporters in the decoy plane that were purposely put in harm's way to secure his safety. But how, why would such highly detailed… ## [The Tramp is a Lady](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-tramp-is-a-lady/) _2026-08-11 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ MINNELLI MISFITS Those looking at the subtitle of this remaining month’s series should not be taken aback. Calling a Vincente Minnelli movie a misfit – at least in my way of thinking – ain’t a bad thing. It hails from the director’s close association with musicals and charming domestic comedies. The August choices are stark … Continue reading The Tramp is a Lady → ## [Santo vs. the Riders of Terror](http://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/2026/08/santo-vs-riders-of-terror.html) _2026-08-11 · Barry P. · Cinematic Catharsis_ (1970) Directed by René Cardona; Written by René Cardona and Jesús Murcielago Velázquez; Starring: Santo, Armando Silvestre, Julio Aldama, Mary Montiel, Gregorio Casal, Ivonne Govea and Carlos Agostí; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: \*\*\* “Being locked up in there was like being buried alive. It’s hardly a life at all. We want to die in the open air. That’s all.” – José (Gregorio Casal)… ## [You Throw A Party, And...](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/you-throw-party-and.html) _2026-08-10 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ What I have to remind myself- ad infinitum... ## [The Joys Of Retirement](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-joys-of-retirement.html) _2026-08-06 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Photos: © Stan B. I still wake up giddy most days, two-thirds of a year in, retirement has certainly not lost its sheen! Don't know if a return to employment will mar the scenery at some inopportune time hence, but for now... One of the things I find (that I could in no way foresee) is how in the moment I am now allowed to be, to experience, to feel! No longer consumed by time restraints, one can… ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Cg7eYmnPb38e) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [The Film Noir Files for August 2026](https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/the-film-noir-files-for-august-2026/) _2026-08-05 · shadowsandsatin · shadowsandsatin_ Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the \[…\] ## [Mal & Dee 41-3: train training](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/08/05/mal-dee-41-3-train-training/) _2026-08-05 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ Looks like Mal has a new purpose in life! The bureaucrat bot is STANDING in that 1st panel. Is he? Another thing to fix. This sat for days until I finished the previous two strips and I must have forgotten that detail. I just imagine him being very manic and jittery in his office. He \[…\] ## [I Paint Ranches](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/i-paint-ranches/) _2026-08-04 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ MEAN TRAILS A non-flinching dark thriller that just happens to be set in the Old West, 1948’s BLOOD ON THE MOON, directed by Robert Wise, moseys onto Blu-Ray, via the carpetbaggers at the Warner Archive Collection/Warner Home Entertainment. Another early Wise triumph, preceding his brilliant noir classic The Set-Up by a year, MOON is nearly … Continue reading I Paint Ranches → ## [Mal & Dee 41-2: worry](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/08/04/mal-dee-41-2-worry/) _2026-08-04 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ Rolling along with the 2nd strip of the week. Another thing I forgot was having the bureaucrat bot in a motion to sit, as opposed to already being seated, implying from my end that he did not see Mal moving the paper. But maybe it’s not something he cares about, Mal moving a paper on \[…\] ## [Trump Dump](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/trump-dump.html) _2026-08-04 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ We all lead busy lives- so just in case ya didn't catch the art phenomenon of the year... It sold for $1800, if we would have gotten our promised tariff dividend - that would have left the buyer with $200! ## [Pre-Code Crazy for August 2026](https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/pre-code-crazy-for-august-2026/) _2026-08-03 · shadowsandsatin · shadowsandsatin_ Pre-Code Crazy is the monthly series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we recommend a pre-Code film for you to watch on TCM – we never know what the other has selected until we post, and we try to never pick the same \[…\] ## [Mal & Dee 41-1 difficult](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/08/03/mal-dee-41-1-difficult/) _2026-08-03 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ Happy Monday, happy August. A few things about this week’s strips: I thought drawing them was a breeze. I wrote the dialog backwards, so I had the punchline for the page and worked from there. Except, I had writers block. Generally I know what I want to happen, I know there has to be cues \[…\] ## [Helluva Week In Review!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/08/helluva-week-in-review.html) _2026-08-02 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ If ya listened to the news this week one woulda swore that 60,000 Africans crossed the sea into Europe and invaded Spain by force. Actually, the news headline shoulda been- 60,000 Africans emigrate to... Africa ! Ceuta ( where the temporary immigrants emigrated to ) is a city in Africa that Spain just happens to occupy , after taking it from Portugal, who forcibly took it from the rightful… ## [It’s Here! It’s Here! At Last, It’s Here!](https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/its-here-its-here-at-last-its-here/) _2026-08-01 · shadowsandsatin · shadowsandsatin_ It’s that time, y’all! Time for my favorite month of the year – August, dontcha know – because that’s the month that brings us TCM’s awesome celebration, Summer Under the Stars! To those of you who know nothing of the world in which you live (to paraphrase Addison DeWitt), it is perhaps necessary to tell \[…\] ## [July Quick Picks and Pans](http://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/2026/07/july-quick-picks-and-pans.html) _2026-07-31 · Barry P. · Cinematic Catharsis_ Brewster McCloud (1971) But Cort stars in the title role, as an odd, reclusive young man who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome, and dreams of flying like a bird. Sally Kellerman is Brewster’s guardian angel Louise, with wings tattooed on her back. Shelley Duvall (in her first film role) plays Suzanne, an eccentric young woman who befriends Brewster. The film boasts several bizarre… ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PgsuXjbC2MyS) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [One Man Level of Cool!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/one-man-level-of-cool.html) _2026-07-30 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Photo: © Stan B. Having grown up in New York, I've always admired a sense of style. It takes something to possess one, even more to own it; and says something about the person and how they move in the world. Of course, it's ultimately superficial (never judge a book by its cover) but in a world so dominated by the visual- it can carry the day! Some may call it, "Cool-" the look, the manner, the… ## [Mal & Dee 40-3: from the lesson manual (& recap)](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/29/mal-dee-40-3-from-the-lesson-manual-recap/) _2026-07-29 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ And, there you go. The trainyard boss meant “from the safety manual.” Whoops, a little overzealous there, Patch. I think I said it on Monday, while working on this page, I realized that I needed to pace it out a couple more pages so that page 46 is the last page of the comic instead \[…\] ## [Summer Under the Stars 2025 — The New-to-Me Movies, Days 18 to . . .](https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/summer-under-the-stars-2025-the-new-to-me-movies-days-18-to/) _2026-07-28 · shadowsandsatin · shadowsandsatin_ I’m finally coming into the home stretch, y’all, and wrapping up my coverage of the new-to-me movies from last year’s TCM Summer Under the Stars event – just in time for this year’s event! Here goes . . . August 18: James Gleason – Murder on the Blackboard (1934) This mystery-comedy stars Edna May Oliver \[…\] ## [Horse Opera Vengeance, Chicago Style](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/horse-opera-vengeance-chicago-style/) _2026-07-28 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ MEAN TRAILS One cool idea that is mostly (but not completely) successful, 1948’s STATION WEST, from RKO studios, hitches up to DVD-R from the cowpunchers at The Warner Archive Collection/Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. When a series of gold robberies encompass the mass murder of soldiers assigned to guard the latest transport, the federal government steps … Continue reading Horse Opera Vengeance,… ## [Mal & Dee 40-2: the lesson](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/28/mal-dee-40-2-the-lesson/) _2026-07-28 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ WARNING: This strip contains robot on robot punching, kicking, and more. Robot violence. Apologies in advance. Okay, when i got to the two panels on the bottom left, I felt bad. Please let me know if this went too far, with Patch swinging Mal around into a wall and trying to twist his legs like \[…\] ## [Mal & Dee 40-1: it just started](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/27/mal-dee-40-1-it-just-started/) _2026-07-27 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ Happy Monday! And look, it’s…OFFICER PATCH! Uh oh, how will Mal explain what happened to Dextor? Well, two more strips this week! Tune in tomorrow and Wednesday! Meanwhile, I’ll be working on the next two pages, and then I’ll be taking a week or so break. Maybe I’ll draw during the break, I just won’t \[…\] ## [American Fear](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/american-fear.html) _2026-07-27 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ 7/25/2026 Photo: © Stan B. It's a sad and sorry situation- but true. There's this growing trend of mistrust and fear even among peaceful protestors where some participants are now worried of being photographed, identified and made to face retribution. The result is that they now purposely position their signs in front of their faces in order to dissuade subsequent identification. I've also had… ## [The Parable Of The Snake...](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-parable-of-snake.html) _2026-07-26 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ He attempted to steal a Presidential election in front of our very eyes- do you expect any less of him in the midterms ? And then, there's this... ## [When Shit Talks...](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/when-shit-talks.html) _2026-07-25 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ ## [movie review: Shakedown (1950)](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/23/movie-review-shakedown-1950/) _2026-07-23 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ What did you watch? The 1950 crime noir cautionary tale Shakedown. And I’m going to skip the intro joke and just get into it, because Shakedown didn’t waste time either getting its protagonist in over his head and on a way way path into the noir abyss. Jack is introduced getting beat up by a \[…\] ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nR3LMk7hLkV3) _2026-07-23 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [How The CyberTruck Was Designed!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-cybertruck-was-designed.html) _2026-07-23 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ ## [Summer Under the Stars 2025: The New-to-Me Movies, Days 10-17](https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/summer-under-the-stars-2025-the-new-to-me-movies-days-10-17/) _2026-07-22 · shadowsandsatin · shadowsandsatin_ Yikes. I looked at the calendar today and something clicked – TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebration starts NEXT WEEK, and I still haven’t worked my way through covering last year’s new-to-me movies! Time for a marathon review session, y’all! Wish me luck – here goes . . . August 10: Clark Gable – They \[…\] ## [Mal & Dee 39-3: all aboard the ghost train! (& recap)](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/22/mal-dee-39-3-all-aboard-the-ghost-train-recap/) _2026-07-22 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ Uh oh! Another ‘blackout’ end to a week’s worth of strips (or page)! There’s a LOT of this in issue two, you’ll notice! …when issue 2 is finished. Which, not to give too much away, but I’m trying to figure out what page to end the issue on, which will affect how many more strips \[…\] ## [Westward Hoes](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/westward-hoes/) _2026-07-21 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ MEAN TRAILS A surprisingly adult American frontier nightmare, 1949’s ROUGHSHOD, directed by Mark Robson, bucks its way onto DVD-R, thanks to the wranglers at The Warner Archive Collection. Much of what Robson learned during his tenure under Val Lewton becomes instantly apparent from the fade-in. A band of outlaws escapes a maximum security prison, and … Continue reading Westward Hoes → ## [Mal & Dee 39-2: a positive attitude](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/21/mal-dee-39-2-a-positive-attitude/) _2026-07-21 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ So for the first panel I drew a line for a horizon and then gave Mal & Dextor’s body some ground lines so as to give everything some spatial designations. Mal asks the ghost of Dextor if he’s OKAY. No Mal, your friend is DEAD. Geez. Anyway, this page concludes tomorrow! ## [Mal & Dee 39-1: I didn’t catch his name!](https://robotswithcoffee.com/2026/07/20/mal-dee-39-1-i-didnt-catch-his-name/) _2026-07-20 · Paul Czarnowski · Robots With Coffee_ We’re back! This week’s strips were fun to do…but I am TIRED of drawing the stark black background, like with page 37. I kept it REAL simple, for REASONS…no train train silhouette. But I didn’t DRAW a black background, I just used brush pens through most of it. Which probably stinks up the place. But \[…\] ## [Things I Contemplated Over The Weekend...](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/things-i-contemplated-over-weekend.html) _2026-07-20 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ A Coupla Things: Trump Assassination Victim's Widow Makes Stunning New Claim 😳 #Trump #Breaking #Politics - YouTube ICE Officer In Maine Shooting Has History Of Violent Behavior, Family And Records Say | HuffPost Latest News A Twofer: Republican election fraud They told her she could vote - YouTube And Finally: "We Don't Have The Biggest D\*CK On The Planet!" - Nick Irving \[DEBATE\] U.S. Lost The… ## [The NYC Landscape](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-nyc-landscape.html) _2026-07-17 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Photo: © Rob Stephenson If you're a photographer in NYC, you're a street photographer- unless you got a studio and shoot portraits. What's that... landscape? How many shots of the skyline can one possibly take? Obvious questions lead to obvious answers. And deciding what to shoot (and doing it well- the tricky part) is a problem that besets every photographer, especially in an era when anything… ## [Breaking News!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/breaking-news.html) _2026-07-17 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ MAGA believes every single, recycled lie President Trump reiterated this evening concerning the 2020 election. Thank you for your attention to this matter- we now humbly await his state of emergency declaration to steal the midterms! ## [The Dems Screw It Up, Again!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-dems-screw-it-up-again.html) _2026-07-16 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Imagine if there was one thing , just-one-thing that most Americans could agree on, that most Americans actually want. Imagine one magical something that most Americans could unite on; i f only something like that actually existed- something like, something like... The Epstein Files!!! You'd think the Dems would have had their act together and hammered away at Todd Blanche at his DOJ confirmation… ## [American Insanity](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/american-insanity.html) _2026-07-15 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Was going to post on photography, but it's just too fucking disturbing to ignore- people wantonly being assassinated on the street by our 'Law and Order' administration, a 'Law and Order' administration led by an adjudicated rapist, con man, traitor and pedophile revered by millions who proclaim themselves (as does he) to be both Christian and patriotic ... ## [Spellbound Westbound](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/spellbound-westbound/) _2026-07-14 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ MEAN TRAILS You don’t have to be a top tier movie fanatic to savor the joys of the words “film noir.” Indeed, it is likely the most watched genre in the classic flick universe. No surprise then that there were offshoot genres: spoofs (a la Bob Hope), horror pics (Val Lewton and beyond), romantic dramas … Continue reading Spellbound Westbound → ## [Across The River](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/across-river.html) _2026-07-13 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Photos: © Stan B. I was walking out of my mother's nursing home when I was hit with the hottest wind I ever experienced in my life, unnaturally hot, radioactively hot, and having grown up in NY, having experienced many a NYC summer, I realized- this is most definitely not normal! It was 98 degrees that day and the major reason I wasn't spending extended periods of time pounding sweltering midtown… ## [Dead Ringers](http://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/2026/07/dead-ringers.html) _2026-07-10 · Barry P. · Cinematic Catharsis_ (1988) Directed by David Cronenberg; Written by David Cronenberg and Norman Snider; Based on the novel, Twins , by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland; Starring: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon and Stephen Lack; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: \*\*\*\* “When was the last time a gynaecologist was in a movie, even as a figure of fun? There’s something taboo there,… ## [101 And Counting](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/101-and-counting.html) _2026-07-09 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Some things will always lie beyond human comprehension. Photos: © Stan B. The one thing I found myself most wanting to do when I was in Washington, DC this 7/04 was to walk about, megaphone in hand, proclaiming, "Climate Change is a hoax" as we all collectively melted in the 101 degrees of sunlight and heat. But I came armed with a coupla cameras instead, which were useless after an hour and a… ## [Recent discovery: One Shoe Makes It Murder](https://www.screenactionjazz.com/2026/07/recent-discovery-one-shoe-makes-it.html) _2026-07-08 · Derrick Bang · Screen Action Jazz_ Riding on the momentum of his two performances as Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe — in 1975’s Farewell, My Lovely , and 1978’s The Big Sleep — well-seasoned Robert Mitchum was a logical choice to play the similarly world-weary former-cop-turned-reluctant PI in 1982’s One Shoe Makes It Murder , a modestly enjoyable TV movie adaptation of Eric Bercovici’s So Little Cause for Caroline , which had… ## [Animal Crackers as Duck Soup](https://supervistaramacolorscope.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/animal-crackers-as-duck-soup/) _2026-07-07 · Mel Neuhaus · supervistaramacolorscope_ Last year we waxed rhapsodic when EyePop 3D gave us a stereoscopic Blu-Ray of the 1929 Marx Brothers classic The Cocoanuts. Now, they’ve gone one better with a superb immersion edition of the quartet’s 1930 movie follow-up ANIMAL CRACKERS. Both projects originated from Broadway hits (and both were filmed at Paramount’s Astoria studio in Queens, … Continue reading Animal Crackers as Duck Soup → ## [From Blue Note to Buffalo](https://teleport-city.com/from-blue-note-to-buffalo/) _2026-07-06 · Keith · Teleport City_ Dodo Greene’s My Hour of Need Dodo Greene sang throughout her childhood in Buffalo, NY. She appeared several times on the Buster Brown Shoes Amateur Hour radio show and was a member of an ensemble known as Miss Margaret Scott’s Personality Steppers. She came from a musical family. Her two brothers, James and Sonny Hawkins, were a \[…\] ## [Interpol Code 8](https://teleport-city.com/interpol-code-8/) _2026-07-05 · Keith · Teleport City_ The Kokusai himitsu keisatsu series kicks off the post-007 era If you were to chart the number of spy movies released before and after 1962, you would see a massive spike. That year was defined by two very different spy movies. One, The Manchurian Candidate, was an unnerving, claustrophobic exploration of brainwashing and Cold War \[…\] ## [Happy 4th!](https://boats16.blogspot.com/2026/07/happy-4th.html) _2026-07-04 · Stan B. · Based On A True Story_ Photo: © Stan B. I can pass (in a crowd), and am no doubt considered some kinda Arab when in Europe (hell, most Americans ain't sure what a Puerto Rican is)- but this is indeed interesting! Meanwhile, this is as borderline Genius , as this is hilariously obvious . And as to further round out our nation's great history ... Enjoy the day!