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As Steven Soderbergh observed recently, Hollywood has largely given up on serious movie making, said Kevin Maher in The Times. Hooray, then, for "Echo Valley", a "twisty modern noir" that marks ...

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Critic Roger Ebert included “After Dark, My Sweet” in his great movies list, calling it “one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir” despite having been “almost ...

Australian writer and producer Vicki Madden is bringing the Scandinavian noir style to Australian screens. What makes Tasmania so well-suited to the genre?