THERE is plenty of mayhem for fans of dark fiction in the pages of "Long Island Noir": shootings, killings, all manner of brutality.
Also in this week's arts diary Damien Hirst releases alphabet book for babies So long Scandi noir: Could Bilingual drama The Tunnel set new TV trend?
First-time director Mathew Cullen's long-gestating noir thriller based on Martin Amis's 1989 novel London Fields has been given a boost by a cameo from Johnny Depp.
While the acting varies — Sarah Lemp, Ugo Chukwu and Mr. Apps give some of the better performances — Mr. Ahonen and Mr. Aukin have everyone working in roughly the same style: terse, cynical, hellbent on treating the story and its absurd plot reversals like a long-lost noir classic.
James Ellroy and Ross MacDonald wrote some of the finest and deepest noir long after the world went technicolor.
Pay walls, long the bête noir of evangelists of a free and open Internet, are almost sexy right now.
It still serves him well, as in the long poem "Newark Noir," in which he tries to distill his hometown to its essence, using the color black as an artistic filter: "The filthy tires hung on hooks in the garage-store we had to pass through to get to our minuscule shul./Black Book of Europe, proof of the war on the Jews — illicit volume, as forbidden to Jewish children as porn".
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are eyeing up the long-gestating Shane Black noir The Nice Guys, reports The Wrap.
He then capped the most impressive season of his 11-year career by beating his long-time bete noir, Novak Djokovic, to win the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in Greenwich last month, sealing his position as the world's number one.
Not so long ago, directors of noir TV thrillers would limit the number of scenes shot in the near noir to just the scary ones.
