Seattle has long embraced the shadowy lure of film noir. Not exactly a genre, film noir has been described as a style, an attitude, a movement, even an era of Hollywood filmmaking. It’s a particular ...

They just don’t make ’em like they used to. The Miracle of the Bells (1948) is one such example. Unabashedly Catholic in its setting, content and themes, it falls short in familiarity compared to ...

The 1948 film starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy celebrated leaving city life and spreading out in suburbia. Even then, it was a questionable idea. By Julie Lasky This year marks the 75th anniversary ...

The perpetually drunk doctor Sanada meets the wounded young gangster Matsunaga one evening. As he treats him, a friendship develops: the doctor frees himself from alcoholism and the gangster gives up ...