Also ranks #11 on Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Macaulay Culkin Movies 40 The Boys Are Back Clive Owen, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser 29 votes Based on a true story, this poignant drama stars Clive Owen as Joe Warr, a sports journalist who must navigate the challenges of single parenthood afte...
Set in the 1980s Texan landscape, this gripping modern Western crime thriller masterfully interweaves the stories of a Vietnam veteran, a ruthless hitman, and a disillusioned sheriff. Directed by the Coen Brothers, the film expertly captures the desolate and unforgiving setting, emphas...
One of the best adaptations of Raymond Chandler’s iconic private eye, The Long Goodbye turns Philip Marlowe into a man out of time, navigating the streets of LA like a dishevelled outsider. Everything about the film is pitch-perfect. If you’re a fan of of noir cinema, you’ll want t...
by Raymond Chandler Read 3 Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme Read 4 Nine Stories by J D Salinger Read 5 No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July The short story form allows for instinctiveness in a way that novels don't, says Israeli writerEtgar Keret, whose stories hav...
THE BIG SLEEP by RAYMOND CHANDLER The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece. The best crime novel ever written bar none. Almost single handedly Chandler invented the genre of the hard drinking, hard smoking, hard loving, sharply dressed, first person, private detective, with a ...
The stories are grounded and complex, the characters are relatable, and — perhaps most importantly — the songs are absolute bops!*— K.G. How to watch: Been So Long is now streaming on Netflix. 12. Alex Strangelove Teenager Alex Truelove decides it’s high time to lose his virginity...
Raymond Chandler was a famous novelist and screenwriter in the 1930s, specializing in detective fiction. The Big Lebowski is loosely inspired by his works, and it does his writing justice. From the incredible cast that includes other big names like Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour ...
While accomplished mystery author Raymond Chandler helped write the screenplay and even has a secret cameo in the film, the movie itself is based on a book by James M. Cain. Another one of Cain's novels, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," featured a similar premise and was adapted twice ...
Fun fact: Alexander Woollcott called this “one of the three best mystery stories of all time”; Raymond Chandler strongly disagreed. Milne would go on to write the popular children’s books and poetry collections When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (...
But Double Indemnity’s got it all, a terrific script and story, thanks to director Billy Wilder; smart, cracking dialog, thanks to co-writer Raymond Chandler, master of the hardboiled detective novel; and the best (worst!) crime: Two Lovers Kill Husband Then Shoot Each Other. In the ...