Noir Week Day 3: The Third Man

Get out your passports and cigarettes, we're reviewing The Third Man!

When pulp writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in postwar Vienna for a new job from his longtime friend Harry Lime (Orson Wells), he's shocked to discover that Harry's dead. The international police think Harry was involved in some less-than-legal activities. With strange details surrounding Harry's death, Holly sets off to clear his friend's name and find out what really happened to Harry Lime!

The Raven

Get out your booze and blood, we're reviewing The Raven!

Maybe I should have made his forehead bigger.

I feel with The Raven they were trying to turn Edgar Allen Poe into a Sherlock Holmes type character and create a story similar to From Hell, but it doesn't quite work.  It feels like The Raven is trying to be a lot of things, a classic mystery, a torture-porn gore fest, a summer action movie, and a respectful look at Poe's life, without doing any one of them very well. Minor spoilers follow.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Get out your computers and rape whistles, we're reviewing the English adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Man, how good is that trailer? Like, super good? 

A shiny new penny to the person who tells me why I don't ink more often?

If you've read the books or seen the Swedish version, you know what you're in for. If not, get ready for an intense, rape-filled mystery.