Cinema Sleuths

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is JOHN WICK, starring Keanu Reeve, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, and Willam Dafoe. Directed by Chad Stahelski (and David Leitch). Written by Derek Kolstad. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0m...

<p>Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is an episode from the 1990s TV anthology series FALLEN ANGELS. We investigate the 1996 episode RED WIND based on the short story written by Raymond Chandler and starring Danny Glover as Philip Marlowe! FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: h...

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is an episode from the 1990s TV anthology series FALLEN ANGELS. We investigate the 1996 episode RED WIND based on the short story written by Raymond Chandler and starring Danny Glover as Philip Marlowe! FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtub...

<p>Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week, we are giving you something a little different. Back in 2022, Luke and Matt took to YouTube Live to chat about their love of film noir and hardboiled fiction. Two years later, Mean Street emerged from that chat. We hope you enjoy looking back at the first discussion between Luke and Matt. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple....

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week, we are giving you something a little different. Back in 2022, Luke and Matt took to YouTube Live to chat about their love of film noir and hardboiled fiction. Two years later, Mean Street emerged from that chat. We hope you enjoy looking back at the first discussion between Luke and Matt. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/po...

<p>Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week, we are giving you something a little different. Back in 2022, Luke and Matt took to YouTube Live to chat about their love of film noir and hardboiled fiction. Two years later, Mean Street emerged from that chat. We hope you enjoy looking back at the first discussion between Luke and Matt. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple....

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week, we are giving you something a little different. Back in 2022, Luke and Matt took to YouTube Live to chat about their love of film noir and hardboiled fiction. Two years later, Mean Street emerged from that chat. We hope you enjoy looking back at the first discussion between Luke and Matt. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/po...

Friend of the podcast Stephanie Czajkowski, who was featured on our LAST SEDUCTION episode, has produced an incredible new podcast with her husband called CALIGULA: PACKAGE OF EXCELLENCE. It's a deep-dive exploration into the complicated making of this movie. We've loved it and wanted to share it with you, our listeners!

Is Love Lies Bleeding a modern neo-noir masterpiece — or has this case become too twisted to solve?

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 2024's LOVE LIES BLEEDING, starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian and Ed Harris. Directed by Rose Glass. Written by Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska! FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA Twitter: ht...

<p>Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 2024's superhero noir, BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER, starring Hamish Linklater, Jason Watkins, Krystal Joy Brown, Eric Morgan Stuart, Diedrich Bader, Minnie Driver, Christina Ricci, and Jamie Chung. Created by Bruce Timm and produced by Matt Reeves and J J Abrams. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb...

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 2024's superhero noir, BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER, starring Hamish Linklater, Jason Watkins, Krystal Joy Brown, Eric Morgan Stuart, Diedrich Bader, Minnie Driver, Christina Ricci, and Jamie Chung. Created by Bruce Timm and produced by Matt Reeves and J J Abrams. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the...

Is Get Carter one of the greatest British crime films ever made — and Michael Caine’s Jack Carter one of cinema’s ultimate antiheroes?

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 1971's GET CARTER, starring Michael Caine. Written and Directed by Mike Hodges. Based on the novel by Ted Lewis. Special Guest on this episode is Nick Triplow, author of Getting Carter, which you can purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/gettingcarter FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir...

This week, Cinema Sleuths investigates Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and David Harbour. But is this film so self-aware of its genre and leading actor that it can’t forge its own identity?

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 2014's A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, and David Harbour. Written and Directed by Scott Frank. Based on the novel by Lawrence Block.   FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2...

Is THE FALL GUY one of the most entertaining action movies of the 2020s? Or did audiences simply fail to show up for the stunt?

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 2024's THE FALL GUY, starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. It was directed by David Leitch and written by Drew Pearce. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA Twitter: https://t...

Is The Terminator still one of the greatest science-fiction action movies ever made?

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 1984's The Terminator! Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn. Directed by James Cameron. Written by James Camerson, Gale Anne Hurd, and William Wisher Jr. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0...

This week, Cinema Sleuths investigates Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958), a towering example of film noir starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and the man himself, Orson Welles.

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 1958's TOUCH OF EVIL, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Orson Welles! Directed andwritten by Orson Welles. Based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T...

Was The Killing the blueprint for the modern crime thriller — and could Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 classic really have helped pave the way for The Dark Knight?

Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 1956's THE KILLING, starring Sterling Hayden, Elisha Cook, Jr., Marie Windsor, and Colleen Gray, and directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White. FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c...

<p>Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is 1953'S THE BIG HEAT, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, and Lee Marvin, and directed by Fritz Lang FIND US HERE: ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mean-streets-the-film-noir-podcast/id1733189837 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mMUeJThoZk6mj0T2-BAEA Twitter: https://tw...