But while Huston’s Maltese Falcon lacks an originality of story, it is entirely original in atmosphere, considered by many the birth of the film noir movement, establishing countless archetypes from the hard-boiled detective to the femme fatale. How fitting that the very term “noir” was ...
Dor, swanning into the film with mane of red hair and eyeliner thick enough to dam the Mississippi, doesn’t get to make as much of an impression as some other Bond femme fatales, like Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball, as this seems the one aspect of the Bond formula Gilbert and Dahl don...
Queen of Blood also takes on the motif of a femme fatale more literally than Night Tide. The plot involves humanity responding an overture from an alien race in the year 1990, a time when, in the film’s timeline, space travel has become advanced and missions are increasingly far-flung....