Knock three times and say the secret password, it’s time to sneak past the prohies and get a whiff of something stiff! From Bogart to Big Boy Caprice, we gots…

Porn occupies a sort of weird grey area in the public sphere. Most people watch it, and yet it's not something people talk about in polite company. Here are 6…

Blackmail is one of the most common plot concepts in movies. This could be because it offers an immediately understandable motivation for characters, or maybe just because of the inherent…

The hard-boiled detective is a staple of movies from the past up to the present day. The appeal is obvious, and similar to that of the samurai or the cowboy:…

Humanity has been fascinated by murder ever since Cain killed Abel, and the movies have been happy to oblige this fascination. It might be hard for you to find a…

Even though it came out more than 65 years ago, Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" is the definitive femme fatale drama movie. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) lures the hapless and morally…