The Killers News

It's back - though it shouldn't come as any surprise. Last year marked the first Noir City DC, a tribute to film noir at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring.

Michael Moore challenges Wall Street in "Capitalism: A Love Story." "Capitalism: A Love Story " If someone viewed Michael Moore's provocative "Capitalism: A Love Story" and then read Ayn Rand's "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," they might have a brain seizure.

ANY movie that Frank Faylen was in, is great to watch; Seigel's name was on a tombstone in a western once - possibly a Clint pic.

ANY movie that Frank Faylen was in, is great to watch; Seigel's name was on a tombstone in a western once - possibly a Clint pic.

Disabuse yourself of any notion that this second film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers is going to have any of the moody film noir feel of Robert Siodmak's 1946 film of the same name.

Another wave of film festivals are headed our way. Tonight, the annual Film Noir series steams up the screens at the Pacific CinA©mathA que for 22 nights of moral corruption, sexual politics, and delicious darkness.

Robert Siodmak's The Killers - or more properly, Ernest Hemingway's The Killers - wasn't the first time the German director had made a film noir, since it was preceded by Phantom Lady , Christmas Holiday , The Suspect , The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry and The Spiral Staircase .

Instapundit leads me to a post on "The Top 10 Manly Movie Deaths of All Time," a great idea which pretty much sucks in execution because the person who wrote the post must be about 22 10 - Leon in The Professional 9 - Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie 8 - Tony Montana in Scarface 7 - The Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day 6 - Bill in ...

Cary Fridley will be featured along with Dave Desmelik and Woody Wood during the Singer-Songwriter in the Round performance at 9 p.m. Friday at the Back Room.

ROCKLAND : Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St., will screen Carl Reiner's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," starring Steve Martin, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in the Friends Community Room.

The mystery at the heart of The Killers - whether we refer to the version starring Burt Lancaster or the radically reconfigured too-violent-for-TV version with Lee Marvin - concerns a marked man's resignation to death.

Every week, Film School Rejects presents a movie that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it.

Still from Oh Man courtesy HFA. Booze Berkshire Mountain Distillers makes booze right here in Massachusetts, which means that even the most pedantic of locavores can now have cocktails.