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    Real Steel: 7 Iconic Crime Movie Car Chases 

    Real Steel: 7 Iconic Crime Movie Car Chases 

    Steel is crunching, rubber is burning, and lives are in danger.

    By Nick Kolakowski | September 22, 2023

    Nuclear Noir

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    By Nick Kolakowski | August 4, 2023

    How Cormac McCarthy Used Crime Fiction’s Tropes to Make Masterpieces

    How Cormac McCarthy Used Crime Fiction’s Tropes to Make Masterpieces

    On the author's evolving style and journeys through the darkness.

    By Nick Kolakowski | June 23, 2023

    S.A. Cosby on Inspiration, Serial Killers, and How He Writes

    S.A. Cosby on Inspiration, Serial Killers, and How He Writes

    A conversation with the author of 'All the Sinners Bleed'

    By Nick Kolakowski | June 6, 2023

    Charles Reznikoff: The Finest Noir Poet You’ve Never Heard Of

    Charles Reznikoff: The Finest Noir Poet You’ve Never Heard Of

    In Reznikoff's "objectivist poetry," echoes of Hammett.

    By Nick Kolakowski | May 9, 2023

    Uncrackable: 5 Films Featuring Devilishly Difficult Heists

    Uncrackable: 5 Films Featuring Devilishly Difficult Heists

    What's better than an outrageously elaborate heist sequence?

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    The Dangers of the Open Road: 5 Key Works of Motorcycle Noir

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    How Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner Made 'Heat 2' – An Opus of International Crime

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    The evolution of an iconic crime story.

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    Tenet, Revisited: Why Christopher Nolan’s Most Difficult Film Deserves a Second Chance

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    Billy the Kid’s Fictional Afterlife: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

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    Is “The Counselor” Cormac McCarthy’s Overlooked Masterpiece?

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