The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

But the way this is resolved, it’s all a trifle too neat: a film noir that ends with a feel-good whitewash.

“Spider-Noir” has cast Karen Rodriguez in a series regular role, Variety has learned exclusively. The series, which is the first live-action project to feature the character Spider-Man ...

Please verify your email address. You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. After the exploding popularity of pulp fiction and detective novels in the late 1930s, film noir became ...

Classic film noir is a key part of the history of Hollywood, and it is one of the most notable postwar genres. However, the noir sensibility would prove to be even more enduring, and from the ...