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Noirvember: The Straight-to-Video Essential Selection

November 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe rounds out Noirvember with a selection of straight to video noir films… Dark tales of murder, intrigue, adultery, crime, punishment, femme fatales and lots of ominous dark shadow. Film noir and in more recent cinema history, neo-noir, have offered up an array of moody gems. Noir has infused so much of the action, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Boogie Boy, Cover Up, Cypher, Give 'Em Hell Malone, Payback, Scorned, Shade, The Boondock Saints, The Butcher, Until Death

10 Essential 90s Noir Movies to Enjoy This Noirvember

November 10, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

November is a good time for noir cinema, and the 90s were full of great and underseen gems; Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe presents a selection of ten you need to see… Dark tales with morally obtuse protagonists, criminal plots, dripping in shadowy aesthetics and neglected corners of the towns or cities they’re set. Film noir […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Cop Land, Croupier, Deep Cover, Hard Eight, One False Move, Payback, Red Rock West, The King Of New York, The Limey, U Turn

10 Great Forgotten Erotic Thrillers You Need To See

May 29, 2025 by admin

Casey Chong presents a selection of forgotten erotic thrillers that are worth a watch… Erotic thrillers may have significantly dwindled in today’s era, even though this subgenre does make a splash – for better or worse – occasionally with movies like the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Netflix’s Fair Play and the recently-released Nicole Kidman […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Blue Steel, Bound, Chloe, Color of Night, Crash, Femme Fatale, Jade, Payback, Sea of Love, The Fourth Man

Payback at 25: The Gritty Mel Gibson Neo-Noir Actioner Revisited

February 5, 2024 by admin

Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind the Mel Gibson action thriller Payback as it turns 25… Payback was made when Mel Gibson was one of the biggest and most bankable stars in Hollywood, and with the involvement of Oscar-winning L.A. Confidential scribe Brian Helgeland the project had all the makings of another bona fide […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Brian Helgeland, Mel Gibson, Payback

Five Terrible Superstar-Inspired Gimmick Matches

April 28, 2017 by Liam Hoofe

Liam Hoofe takes a look at some of the worst superstar inspired gimmick matches in wrestling history… This Sunday Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt will square off in the first-ever ‘House of Horrors’ match at Payback. What exactly that consists of remains unknown at this point in time, but optimism is far from high among […]

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