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By Jake Coyle | Associated Press Muscles ripple, veins pop and electronic music throbs in “Love Lies Bleeding,” a heaving, hyper-sexy neo-noir drenched in sweat, blood and bug guts. If that last one seems a touch less expected, that moment, courtesy of a beetle-chomping Ed Harris, is far from the only off-the-wall provocation in Rose Glass’s film, a pulpy, fable-like lesbian crime thriller where bodies, large and small, get ravaged beneath starry desert skies. Not all of it works. Heavy doses of melodrama and flashy…

Eggnut, the developer behind the Tails Noir games (formerly titled Backbone) has announced that the studio is ceasing operation. In a statement posted to Twitter, the studio says, “Starting today, Eggnut is halting its operations. This shit sucks.” The statement goes on to say that the reason behind this decision was complications in securing funding for the development of their next game, which they have been working on for two years. Their remaining budget will go towards assisting the studio’s 15 employees “to…

Sleight of Hand is a new third-person stealth game coming to Xbox Game Pass. Announced during the Xbox Partner Showcase, Sleight of Hand is a third-person stealth game with a noir setting, with focus on deck building.The announcement trailer showed a woman, named Lady Luck, using special playing cards to create mist, freeze a man, and even teleport, while investigating a smuggling operation. The Steam page notes that the cards will be used to get through stealth levels, providing special abilities like…

Framed creator Joshua Briggs is back with another mystery game, and, this time, it has a supernatural element. RiffRaff Games has announced the upcoming release of Sleight of Hand, a "third-person card-slinging occult noir stealth sim" — a collection of words that alone have us very intrigued.Sleight of Hand follows Lady Luck, a former occult detective who must track down and defeat her former coven. Yes, excitingly, a woman is the noir protagonist, and she comes to Steeple City with a cursed deck (necessary, given she…

Known more for his horror and action films than the noir genre, filmmaker John Carpenter will embrace his inner Bogie on his upcoming album of soundtracks for movies that don’t exist, Lost Themes No. 4: “Noir.” Of course, he’s doing it his way, as the single, “My Name Is Death,” shows. The music, which Carpenter recorded with his longtime collaborators — Cody Carpenter (his son) and Daniel Davies (his godson) — throbs with propulsive bass and icy synths. Where Hitchcock movies used composer Bernard Herrmann’s…

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is shaping up to be one of the most powerful phones for photography, but there’s a reason that Xiaomi has added a mode called “MasterCinema” (which records 10-bit Rec. 2020 HDR videos) - the phone has filmmaking ambitions too. The company handed an Ultra to director Adam Bernstein, who has previously worked on Breaking Bad, Californication and others, along with cinematographer Sam Chase, known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and others. They shot a new movie called Roma Noir: Triple…

To say that the Spider-Man universe at least has Madame Web is basically acknowledging that the web-slinger expanse has very little. As the Dakota Johnson movie is tanking at box-office, at least it's showering the fans with some chuckle-worthy promotions headed by the campy film's ‘aloof’ main star who never fails to channel her fun, dry humour to the best of her abilities. While this comedy is evoking tears of heartbrokeness among Spidey-fans, some other things are also falling apart in this pillar of madness.…

Although largely comic in tone, this frothy thriller is obviously modelled on classic films noir, with their tales of betrayal and cunning, gullible heroes tricked into crime by femmes fatales, and the ever-present backbeat of quiet economic desperation. But Keir O’Donnell, a character actor making his writing-directing debut, has juiced up the formula with a palette of poppy primary colours and bright stabs of pink, and an ironic, self-mocking tone. That should help this slip down easy with new-generation viewers who may…

For Noir City’s 21st iteration, festival founder Eddie Muller of San Francisco came up with a novel approach to entice fans to Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre: curating double bills that pair English language and international movies. That ingenuity characterizes Muller, who’s a writer who produced the picture book “Kid Noir: Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey” with Jessica Schmidt, and serves as president and founder of the Film Noir Foundation and hosts of Turner Classic Movies’ “Noir Alley.” “Noir City 21:…

Best known as the home town of Father Christmas, Rovaniemi is perhaps not an obvious setting for crime, corruption and murder.But the unique lighting conditions, climate, nature, architecture and atmosphere of the capital of Finnish Lapland, a city of 64,000 that lies right on the Arctic Circle, is contributing to the evolution of its very own Nordic noir sub-genre.“Reindeer noir” (reindeer noirissa) – the term coined to describe the emerging category – was characterised by “a hint of dark humour” and a “localised feel”,…