The murder-mystery renaissance really is in full effect right now. The likes of Only Murders In The Building, Poker Face, and Apple TV’s The Afterparty have been making armchair detectives of us all on the telly side of things, but it’s the big screen sleuthing boom that’s had genre fans flocking to the multiplexes with their magnifying glasses and (presumably) deerstalkers most recently. With whodunnits as wildly varied as Park Chan-wook’s sensual Decision To Leave, the superbly silly See How They Run, Rian Johnson_ – which leans hard into the ‘D’ of DC Comics – on offer, it’s not exactly hard to see why, either.
Now, as we prepare to take enough champagne to fill the, erm, canals of Venice with us to see Kenneth Branagh_, we at Empire HQ have put our tan raincoats on and launched an investigation into the very best the genre has to offer.
Now, as we prepare to take enough champagne to fill the, erm, canals of Venice with us to see Kenneth Branagh_, we at Empire HQ have put our tan raincoats on and launched an investigation into the very best the genre has to offer.
- 9/15/2023
- by Jordan King, James White, Beth Webb, Sophie Butcher, Nick de Semlyen
- Empire - Movies
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "A Simple Favor"
Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video
The Pitch: "A Simple Favor" poses a very (appropriately) simple question: what if Phillip Marlowe was a suburban single mom with a vlog? You'd get Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), best friend to Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) who went missing after asking Stephanie for, you guessed it, a simple favor. In the aftermath of Emily's disappearance, Stephanie takes it upon herself to find her bestie, which leads her down a dark path littered with secrets, some of which are her own.
Emily Nelson works as a PR executive for a high-end fashion designer with an attitude, Dennis Nylon, and she knows how to handle him (and others like him). "You've gotta go right at 'em,...
The Movie: "A Simple Favor"
Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video
The Pitch: "A Simple Favor" poses a very (appropriately) simple question: what if Phillip Marlowe was a suburban single mom with a vlog? You'd get Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), best friend to Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) who went missing after asking Stephanie for, you guessed it, a simple favor. In the aftermath of Emily's disappearance, Stephanie takes it upon herself to find her bestie, which leads her down a dark path littered with secrets, some of which are her own.
Emily Nelson works as a PR executive for a high-end fashion designer with an attitude, Dennis Nylon, and she knows how to handle him (and others like him). "You've gotta go right at 'em,...
- 2/19/2023
- by Ariel Fisher
- Slash Film
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Laura"
Where You Can Stream It: Criterion Channel
The Pitch: Directed by Otto Preminger and released in 1944, "Laura" is, simply put, the story of a detective who falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Vera Caspary, the story follows Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) as he investigates the murder of one Laura Hunt (played by the...
The post The Daily Stream: Laura, A Strange Experiment in Love ... and Murder! appeared first on /Film.
The Movie: "Laura"
Where You Can Stream It: Criterion Channel
The Pitch: Directed by Otto Preminger and released in 1944, "Laura" is, simply put, the story of a detective who falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Vera Caspary, the story follows Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) as he investigates the murder of one Laura Hunt (played by the...
The post The Daily Stream: Laura, A Strange Experiment in Love ... and Murder! appeared first on /Film.
- 11/21/2021
- by Ariel Fisher
- Slash Film
American crime fiction author James Ellroy recently sat down with Empire Online to discuss one of his upcoming projects - a film remake of Otto Preminger's classic 1944 noir "Laura" for 20th Century Fox.
The original follows police detective Mark McPherson who is investigating the murder of successful female advertising executive Laura Hunt who was killed by a shotgun blast to the face in her apartment.
Thanks to testimony from witnesses and the reading of her correspondence, McPherson begins to become obsessed with the dead woman... who may not be as dead as he thinks.
Ellroy confirms that the remake will change the film's setting from New York City to London: "I'm going to set it in London. I'm staying here in London for a while, and I want to do a Scotland Yard movie. I'm going to set it today."
Talking about the original, Ellroy says: "I've seen the film,...
The original follows police detective Mark McPherson who is investigating the murder of successful female advertising executive Laura Hunt who was killed by a shotgun blast to the face in her apartment.
Thanks to testimony from witnesses and the reading of her correspondence, McPherson begins to become obsessed with the dead woman... who may not be as dead as he thinks.
Ellroy confirms that the remake will change the film's setting from New York City to London: "I'm going to set it in London. I'm staying here in London for a while, and I want to do a Scotland Yard movie. I'm going to set it today."
Talking about the original, Ellroy says: "I've seen the film,...
- 11/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Here’s a remake idea that won’t have you doing a spit-take and attempting to burn Hollywood down to its sinful ashes: Otto Preminger‘s Laura. Yes, the film is an unabashed classic, one of those films noir that’s been vaulted up to mythical, God-like status amongst those who still watch movies from before 1970. The 1944 film follows a detective, Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), investigating the murder of the rich, gorgeous and all-around enchanting Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), who was blown away by an unfortunate shotgun blast to the face. Our dashing detective sinks himself into the case, but as he does he starts to fall madly in love with the deceased dame. Which would be fine (who among us hasn’t developed a little crush on a murder victim now and then?), except the case starts to turn in a seriously weird direction, leaving McPherson the only one to sort out its loop-de-looping plot twists...
- 8/27/2014
- by Adam Bellotto
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We know the winter moviegoing season can be a bit disheartening, but if the multiplex doesn't have any options for you, there's no better time to curl up at home and rediscover an old classic. And Otto Preminger's classic noir "Laura" gets the high def treatment in February and we've got a couple of copies for some lucky readers. Told largely in flashback, the film follows Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) as he investigates the murder of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), a beautiful Park Avenue society girl. Through the men in her life -- critic Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) and playboy fiancé Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price) -- he begins to get a portrait of who she was, until he's in for a shocking surprise. Essentially, this is one of the greats of the genre. So how to do you get a copy? Email us with your name and address...
- 2/4/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Otto Preminger's whodunnit-noir still grips, with its superb halfway-point coup de cinéma
Lovers of 1940s Hollywood – and of course movie-lovers in general – should savour every last drop of this rerelease, directed by Otto Preminger, made in 1944 and coming complete with an ad for Us war bonds in the closing credits. It's a fascinating whodunnit-noir with a superb coup de cinéma halfway through. Dana Andrews is the rugged Detective Mark McPherson; on account of heroic gunshot wounds in the leg, the press have dubbed him "Detective with the silver shinbone". (Something, perhaps, to set aside Preminger's 1955 movie The Man With the Golden Arm.) McPherson is investigating the gruesome murder of Laura Hunt, played by the exquisitely beautiful Gene Tierney. In flashbacks, we see how she was swept up into fashionable cafe society by her infatuated but platonic bachelor admirer, the waspish newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) – the equal, surely,...
Lovers of 1940s Hollywood – and of course movie-lovers in general – should savour every last drop of this rerelease, directed by Otto Preminger, made in 1944 and coming complete with an ad for Us war bonds in the closing credits. It's a fascinating whodunnit-noir with a superb coup de cinéma halfway through. Dana Andrews is the rugged Detective Mark McPherson; on account of heroic gunshot wounds in the leg, the press have dubbed him "Detective with the silver shinbone". (Something, perhaps, to set aside Preminger's 1955 movie The Man With the Golden Arm.) McPherson is investigating the gruesome murder of Laura Hunt, played by the exquisitely beautiful Gene Tierney. In flashbacks, we see how she was swept up into fashionable cafe society by her infatuated but platonic bachelor admirer, the waspish newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) – the equal, surely,...
- 2/24/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Otto Preminger's film noir masterpiece Laura (1944) opens with the ominous line "I shall never forget the weekend Laura died". From there we meet hardboiled NYPD detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) in a stylish New York apartment and observe his interview with the waspish Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb). This ageing aristocrat/journalist shamelessly types his newspaper column from his bathtub as he answers McPherson's questions about his murdered protégé and close companion Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney).
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- 2/23/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Actor/musician/security guard Derrick T. Tuggle's smooth moves earned him a starring role in the Keys' new clip.
By James Montgomery
Derrick T. Tuggle in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" music video
Photo: Warner Music Group
Forget about that "Evolution of Dance" guy or the "Double Dream Feet" dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" video.
For the uninitiated, the clip stars Tuggle — and only Tuggle — as a herky-jerky dance machine who grooves to the Keys' new single while standing outside a motel room. Over the course of three-plus minutes, as the sleeves of his dress shirt become increasingly unrolled, he cycles through a series of rather amazing moves (and even mimics a few of the lyrics) before triumphantly thrusting...
By James Montgomery
Derrick T. Tuggle in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" music video
Photo: Warner Music Group
Forget about that "Evolution of Dance" guy or the "Double Dream Feet" dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" video.
For the uninitiated, the clip stars Tuggle — and only Tuggle — as a herky-jerky dance machine who grooves to the Keys' new single while standing outside a motel room. Over the course of three-plus minutes, as the sleeves of his dress shirt become increasingly unrolled, he cycles through a series of rather amazing moves (and even mimics a few of the lyrics) before triumphantly thrusting...
- 10/27/2011
- MTV Music News
Actor/musician/security guard Derrick T. Tuggle's smooth moves earned him a starring role in the Keys' new clip.
By James Montgomery
Derek T. Tuggle in The Black Key's "Lonely Boy" music video
Photo: Warner Music Group
Forget about that "Evolution of Dance" guy or the "Double Dream Feet" dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" video.
For the uninitiated, the clip stars Tuggle — and only Tuggle — as a herky-jerky dance machine who grooves to the Keys' new single while standing outside a motel room. Over the course of three-plus minutes, as the sleeves of his dress shirt become increasingly unrolled, he cycles through a series of rather amazing moves (and even mimics a few of the lyrics) before triumphantly thrusting...
By James Montgomery
Derek T. Tuggle in The Black Key's "Lonely Boy" music video
Photo: Warner Music Group
Forget about that "Evolution of Dance" guy or the "Double Dream Feet" dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" video.
For the uninitiated, the clip stars Tuggle — and only Tuggle — as a herky-jerky dance machine who grooves to the Keys' new single while standing outside a motel room. Over the course of three-plus minutes, as the sleeves of his dress shirt become increasingly unrolled, he cycles through a series of rather amazing moves (and even mimics a few of the lyrics) before triumphantly thrusting...
- 10/27/2011
- MTV Music News
Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents the story of a murdered woman loved by everyone, a police detective with a silver leg, and the twists that no one saw coming. Laura (1944) Directed by: Otto Preminger Otto Preminger has a stranger public persona than may be deserved. For more modern audiences, he might be best recognized as “that other guy who played Mr. Freeze on the Batman TV series.” For older generations, he has an even shot at being remembered either for his directorial talent or for getting stripper Gypsy Rose Lee pregnant due to his estranged, open marriage. However, the man whom Noel Coward once called a bully had an incredible skill for storytelling, and that’s the aspect of his life that should be celebrated most on his birthday (one he shares with...
- 12/6/2010
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
For this edition Shadows of Film Noir, we take a look at Otto Preminger's Laura, produced by Twentieth Century Fox in 1944. It was a glossy, high-class production that was well regarded, and it was a hit, even though it was not one of the year's top grossers. It won an Oscar for its black-and-white cinematography, and received nominations for directing, screenplay, art direction, and supporting actor. Since then, it has come to be known as one of Preminger's greatest films, along with Anatomy of a Murder (1959). It's an odd combination of class and back-alley emotions, all coming together in a bizarre, brilliant way.
What It's About
Police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), a beautiful advertising executive. His first stop is powerful newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), who first appears in his bathtub, perched at his typewriter (which rests on...
What It's About
Police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), a beautiful advertising executive. His first stop is powerful newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), who first appears in his bathtub, perched at his typewriter (which rests on...
- 6/19/2010
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
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