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    Requiem

    Requiem

    7.3 (10 Ratings) Rate It

    TV Show

    Requiem is a British supernatural drama television series written by Kris Mrksa and directed by...

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Steph Freeman (26 KP) rated THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD in TV

Jan 6, 2018  
THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD
THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD
2018 | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir
8
7.8 (56 Ratings)
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The actors are well suited for their characters. (1 more)
Show stayed true to film noir through all 8 episodes.
The first two episodes were shown in the preview. (1 more)
Season was so short there was very little character development.
Film Noir Style Humor
This genre is my favorite, and very few movies or shows are successful at the dry, dark humor without giving up the true macabre nature of the subject. The teens that played the main characters are excellent, as are the two women that play the main detective constables.

I do wish there had been more character development. We know quite a bit about the kids by the end of the 8 episodes (roughly 20-25 minutes per episode), but we are only given a wisp of information about the detective constables relationship. This was very similar to how I felt about the end of Stranger Things season 1.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Big Sleep in Books

Jul 28, 2017  
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
7
5.3 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
Complex classic film noir style
This is a classic. Most people will probably know the Humphrey Bogart big screen version but Raymond Chandler was clearly the original. Gritty, dark and twisted - unusual for its time - he broke boundaries with some of the themes described. As brilliant as it is written, the plot at times gets too complicated and if you're not concentrating, you'll end up missing important clues.
  
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K.K. Barrett recommended The Night of the Hunter (1955) in Movies (curated)

 
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
1955 | Drama, Mystery
9.0 (5 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"A very theatrical construct of noir. Black humor, nursery rhymes, expressionist lighting, a zoological boat ride, Shelly Winters underwater, and Robert Mitchum cackling when getting shot. I can hear Charles Laughton chuckling in every scene. Best use of frightening artifice. If Mitchum only acted in one movie, if Gish only appeared in one movie, they should be proud for this to be the one. As it is, Laughton only directed one."

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Tunde Adebimpe recommended Alphaville (1965) in Movies (curated)

 
Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
1965 | Mystery, Sci-Fi
8.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Lo-fi sci-fi detective noir from 1965. Special agent Lemmy Caution is sent on a secret mission to Alphaville, a city run by an evil professor who’s built a supercomputer that specializes in mind control and strips the city’s inhabitants of all real emotion. No real special effects or futuristic props. So lean. So clean. Also, any time someone can potentially destroy a supercomputer with a poem, I’m down."

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Joe Dante recommended Touch of Evil (1958) in Movies (curated)

 
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
1958 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This mesmerizingly brilliant film noir was Orson Welles’ last Hollywood movie. Dumped into second feature playdates, it’s finally become more popular than Citizen Kane. It was recut and reshot by the studio but a longer preview version surfaced a few years ago and is preferable to the well-meaning but bogus “reconstruction” edit which seems to be the extant version. Both are available on the dvd box set."

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