2011
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4 days ago · Shades of author James Ellroy’s L.A. novels (“Black Dahlia”) and numerous other genre standards cast a long shadow in a neo-noir that also plays around in cinema’s sandbox. (One of the ...
1 day ago · There are cops everywhere in Curtis Hanson’s star-studded adaptation of James Ellroy’s neo-noir crime novel: good cops, bad cops, maverick cops, cynical cops, and cops on the take. The film itself is essentially a 138-minute deconstruction of a deeply corrupt Los Angeles police force, which found itself mixing with Hollywood’s seedy underbelly in the ’50s.
1 day ago · Director Curtis Hanson and screen writer Brian Hegelund fashioned a superb movie out of James Ellroy's epic novel about post war Los Angeles: it's surging multi-ethnic population attracted by jobs and weather, the power of organized crime to control prostitution, drugs that fueled a wide open demi-monde and the corrupt Protestant police force ...
4 days ago · It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America’s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself.
4 days ago · On the shelves in his office are Stephen King and James Ellroy novels (the latter was a major influence on Ellis for The Boys), a full collection of The Boys comic-book series, various awards, and a replica Han Solo blaster — Kripke is a lifelong Star Wars fan and hopes to do something in that universe one day.
4 days ago · Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays. The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case.
16 hours ago · An atmospheric dive into a city on the brink that’s brimming with remarkable historical detail, Ash Dark as Night is perfect for fans of Walter Mosley and James Ellroy. Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two Black motorists.
