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3 hrs ago | Greenwich Citizen

Film noir fanatic: Greenwich resident shines light on dark, stylized crime genre

Greenwich resident Michael Kovner is a film noir buff and he loves sharing his passion for the dark, cynical crime genre with others - a genre that includes classics such as "The Big Sleep" and "Born to Kill."

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Related Topix: Greenwich, CT, The Big Sleep, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Jane Greer, Crossfire, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, Celebrities, Robert Mitchum, Country

3 hrs ago | OnMilwaukee

2013 Milwaukee Film Festival announces "Earth" as fall centerpiece

This morning, Milwaukee Film in collaboration with Alverno Presents announced the centerpiece film of this year's festival, a screening of a rare 35mm print of Soviet writer-director Aleksandr Dovzhenko's 1930 silent film "Earth."

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Blackmail, Thriller, Movies, Entertainment

4 hrs ago | FANGORIA

Drafthouse Films re-distributing 1979 oddity, a oeTHE VISITORa

After the care bestowed upon Ted Kotcheff's lost masterpiece WAKE IN FRIGHT and the 1987 Tae Kwon Do friendship epic MIAMI CONNECTION, any repertory title from Drafthouse Films is one to be excited about.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, The Maltese Falcon, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Glenn Ford

6 hrs ago | Fodor's

Niagara Falls from Every Angle

There are higher waterfalls than Niagara Falls, sure. But the width and incredible volume of the waterfall that straddles the border of Canada and the US is a bucket-list-worthy sight to behold.

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Related Topix: Niagara Falls, NY, Canada, Drama Movies, Niagara, Thriller, Travel

13 hrs ago | Daily Mail

Anchorman 2 trailer: Ron Burgundy takes on the eighties

He kept San Diego classy throughout the seventies, but now Ron Burgundy is gearing up to take on eighties Manhattan in Anchorman 2. Will Ferrell's moustachioed news man returns after nine years, and he's got the whole gang along for the ride.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thriller, Bewitched, Celebrities, Will Ferrell

Tue Jun 18, 2013

DreadCentrol.com

Alyce Kills Bashes its Way to DVD

The official home video release details have arrived for the new flick from the makers of Zombie Strippers , entitled Alyce Kills , and we have all the info you need right here.

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Related Topix: Tamara Feldman, Horror Movies, May, Thriller, Drama Movies, Mystery Movies, Donnie Darko, Science Fiction Movies, James Duval, Crime Movies, Action Movies, Undertow, Eddie Rouse

Examiner.com

'Stoker' stokes the horrors of a dysfunctional family

If you can't wait for the release of "World War Z" this weekend, you can get your horror fix today, June 18, with the DVD release of the Gothic thriller " Stoker ".

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Related Topix: Stoker, Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Blue Velvet, Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, Alice in Wonderland, Animation Movies, Comedy Movies, Family, Musical Movies

Examiner.com

Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe revealed in HBO film

Marilyn Monroe has been gone for over 50 years, but the fascination with the Hollywood sex symbol has endured and the mystic remains.

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Related Topix: The Misfits, Bus Stop, Comedy Movies, Thriller, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Prince and the Showgirl, Western, Drama Movies, Niagara, Celebrities, Vocal, Marilyn Monroe

The Jersey Journal

Summer program schedule at the Chatham Senior Center

If looking to stay cool this summer, the Senior Center of the Chathams' air-conditioned room is open from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday .

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Related Topix: That Hamilton Woman, History Movies, War Movies, Drama Movies, Adventure, Celebrities, Comedy Movies, Holiday, Mystery Movies, In a Lonely Place, Humphrey Bogart, Cabin in the Sky, Musical Movies

Radio Times

Michael Sheen to read Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane on Radio 4

Acclaimed Hollywood actor Michael Sheen is to read Neil Gaiman's new novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane on Radio 4's Book at Bedtime strand next month, RadioTimes.com can reveal.

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Related Topix: Underworld, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Michael Sheen

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Hispanic Business

Revisit Alfred Hitchcock's classic films in screenings around L.A.

June 17--Think of it as a Hitchcock-a-palooza. It may be the summer of such blockbuster spectacles as "Man of Steel," "The Lone Ranger" and "World War Z," but it's also the summer of movies by a real-life legend: Alfred Hitchcock.

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Related Topix: Hitchcock, Murder!, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Blackmail, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Easy Virtue, Dial M for Murder, Frenzy

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: Pushover

It's been a weekend of highly enjoyable '50s Columbia noir, starting with NIGHTFALL and then moving on to 5 AGAINST THE HOUSE and THE BROTHERS RICO .

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Related Topix: Pushover, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Kim Novak, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Fred MacMurray

Hell on Frisco Bay

Easy Virtue

WHO: Alfred Hitchcock directed this, and appears in one of the first of his famous cameos, "strolling past a tennis court" according to Patrick McGilligan .

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Related Topix: Easy Virtue, Drama Movies, Hitchcock, Blackmail, Thriller, Crime Movies, The Lodger, Horror Movies, Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, Theater, Arts

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Atlas Shrugs

Saturday Night Cinema: Where the Sidewalk Ends

Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema feature is "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Another film noir jewel unearthed.

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Related Topix: Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Laura, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Craig Stevens, Tom Tully

DreadCentrol.com

Hold On to Your Heads - It's a New Preview of Fox's Sleepy Hollow

Time for another quick look at what's coming this fall in Fox's new take on "Sleepy Hollow" from a powerhouse Hollywood trio comprised of co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and director Len Wiseman.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Thriller, Total Recall, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Underworld, Short, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television, American Violet

Examiner.com

The Mask of the Broken Heart delights Kansas City audiences

Yep, that's what he said in the current show at The Fishtank, current production, The Mask of the Broken Hear t, a tongue-in-cheek detective style caper.

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Related Topix: Kansas City, MO, Celebrities, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Theater, Arts, Literature

Hell on Frisco Bay

Downhill

WHO: Alfred Hitchcock directed this. WHAT: Though Hitchcock disparaged its dialogue and the naA vetA© of one of its most memorable sequences, and though some modern critics find fault with its thematic misogyny, Downhill is a feast for admirers of the director's visual flourishes, second perhaps only to Blackmail among the silent Hitchcocks I've ... (more)

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Related Topix: Hitchcock, The Lodger, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Blackmail, Easy Virtue, Alfred Hitchcock, Vocal

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Slackerwood

Movies This Week: June 14-20, 2013

This weekend finishes up the East/West selections of the Paramount summer classic film series, with two fantastic movies for Sunday at Stateside: Wong Kar Wai's heartbreakingly beautiful In the Mood for Love paired with the impeccably sweet romance of Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding .

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Daniel Day-Lewis, Thriller, Drama Movies, Niagara, Short, Comedy Movies, Clueless, Midnight's Children, The East

RollingStone

Q&A: Danny Huston on the Mob Mentality of 'Magic City'

In Starz' Magic City , set in Miami just following the Cuban revolution, Danny Huston plays local mob boss Ben Diamond alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Ike Evans, the owner of the beachfront Miramar Playa hotel.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Key Largo, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Hispanic Business

9 Hitchcock silent films at the Castro

June 12--The first shot of what many consider the first "real" Alfred Hitchcock film is stunning -- a young woman, her pretty face contorted with fear as she becomes the victim of a Jack the Ripper-ish mass killer; her hair bathed in an angelic light.

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Related Topix: Hitchcock, The Lodger, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Murder!, Blackmail, Mystery Movies, Dial M for Murder