Chinatown (1974)

Acclaimed screenwriter Robert Towne has died. Towne is best known for writing the screenplay for 1974’s Chinatown, which was nominated ...

Chinatown writer Robert Towne provides an update on David Fincher’s upcoming prequel series of the celebrated 1974 film. Fincher and ...

Half a century after the release of the neo-noir mystery Chinatown, interest in the film has not waned, and viewers ...

Chinatown: 10 Reasons It’s The Best Film Noir Movie Ever Made

Chinatown: 10 Reasons It’s The Best Film Noir Movie Ever Made

The detective movie has been around for the longest time, and the genre’s staying power could be traced all the ...

Jack Nicholson: Randle P. McMurphy & His 9 Other Great Antihero Roles, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes

Jack Nicholson: Randle P. McMurphy & His 9 Other Great Antihero Roles, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes

Jack Nicholson is, without a doubt, one of the most beloved actors of all time. With a career spanning over ...

The Batman: 8 Best Nods To 1970s Movies

The Batman: 8 Best Nods To 1970s Movies

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Batman. Batman’s adventures on the big screen have always used the influence of ...

Chinatown: 5 Reasons It’s Jack Nicholson’s Best Role (& 5 It’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest)

Chinatown: 5 Reasons It’s Jack Nicholson’s Best Role (& 5 It’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest)

Jack Nicholson is one of the most recognizable and epochal names in Hollywood. He came of age during the New ...

Chinatown Prequel In Development By Netflix & David Fincher

Chinatown Prequel In Development By Netflix & David Fincher

A Chinatown prequel series is in the works at Netflix with Robert Towne, who wrote the screenplay for the film, ...

The 15 Best Film Noir Movies, Ranked According To Letterboxd

The 15 Best Film Noir Movies, Ranked According To Letterboxd

Releases like Guillermo del Toro’s lush remake of Nightmare Alley and Adrian Lyne’s comeback after a 20-year absence, Deep Water, ...

Chinatown Prequel In Development By Netflix & David Fincher

Robert Evans, Producer of Chinatown, The Godfather, Dies at 89

Robert Evans, the legendary producer who gave the world Chinatown, The Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby, and more classic films, died this ...

Top 10 Films About Los Angeles, According to IMDb

Top 10 Films About Los Angeles, According to IMDb

When is a movie about a place? Not merely set in it, but about it? Does the film’s plot address the setting ...

10 Movies Inspired By Roman Polanski’s Chinatown

10 Movies Inspired By Roman Polanski’s Chinatown

In 1977, Roman Polanski returned to the world of filmmaking with Chinatown – a Neo Noir film that follows private ...

Chinatown: 10 Most Iconic Scenes

Chinatown: 10 Most Iconic Scenes

Chinatown is the 1974 Roman Polanski classic, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Often referred to as a “perfect” movie, the ...

No Country For Old Men & 8 Other Best Neo-Noirs

No Country For Old Men & 8 Other Best Neo-Noirs

The film noir is one of the oldest and most well-worn staples of Hollywood cinema. Its tropes are so predictable ...

5 Best Crime Films Set In L.A. (& 5 Set In New York City)

5 Best Crime Films Set In L.A. (& 5 Set In New York City)

The crime film has always been a popular canvas for filmmakers. From noir dramas such as Casablanca and Double Indemnity, “rogue ...

10 Movies You Never Knew Got Sequels

10 Movies You Never Knew Got Sequels

These days, everything is either a franchise or attempting to become one. Big Hollywood films rarely come out as one-offs. ...

Faye Dunaway: 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

Faye Dunaway: 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

She was once denied a role by director Arthur Penn who felt she didn’t have the right face for cinema. ...

John James Hong’s Top 10 Movies, According To IMDb

John James Hong’s Top 10 Movies, According To IMDb

John James Hong has made a career out of playing “Wise Old Asian Man” roles, something he seemed to inhabit ...

9 Most Confusing Movie Titles

9 Most Confusing Movie Titles

A movie’s title is its first opportunity to grab the audience’s attention. Most movie titles are pretty clear with regards ...

10 Old Hollywood Movies With Off-Screen Drama

10 Old Hollywood Movies With Off-Screen Drama

Recently, the controversy surrounding Zack Snyder and his attempts to make Justice League for Warner Bros. resurfaced. Today, more people ...