Billy Wilder’s Noir Trilogy
When you’re a teenager, there’s nothing like discovering a new writer or a new movie director – new to you, that is.
When you’re a teenager, there’s nothing like discovering a new writer or a new movie director – new to you, that is.
It was never going to last that long. Golden ages rarely do. But for a while there in the 1970s that’s what we had.
Here’s an elevator pitch. You’re you, right? You are who you are, doing the stuff you do. But let’s say there’s another you out there, an exact double...
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
Despite a reputation of emotionally intense titles, Watchmen creator Alan Moore's career is far funnier than audiences give him credit for
It was not the first time an event beyond his control catapulted the Swamp Thing into an odyssey that took him far from his Houma home...
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
Chloe Maveal sits down with artist Jim Mahfood for an interview about his career, cultural influences, and 'Sorcerers'.
Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’
Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
An interview with the incomparable comics creator Eddie Campbell.
With today marking 30 amazing years of the Judge Dredd Megazine, it's time to look back and appreciate the never-were publications that made that possible.
Chloe Maveal provides a comparative look into Judge Dredd as a predictor of unchecked contemporary police brutality.
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
In appreciation of British "Button Man" artist Arthur Ranson, whose career has gone unsung for far too long.
Howard Chaykin pries into the secrets behind the legendary art of Neal Adams
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its...
On his 70th birthday, let's take a moment to sing the praises of the entirely unmatched talents of artist Brian Bolland.
Bridging the narrow divide between pop music, punk attitude, and art, artist Jamie Hewlett is a force to be recognized.
Writer, inker, colorist, and penciller Colleen Doran has set the comics world on fire for decades..and it's time more people knew her name.
A retrospective on the laid back and exceptionally classic art of Darwyn Cooke.
With Halloween just around the corner, NeoText explores the versatility, humor, and perfectly grotesque visuals of British horror comics.
“I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s my father’s nature, too..."
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
After the success of *The Exorcist,* director William Friedkin teamed up with *The Wild Bunch* screenwriter Walon Green for the groundbreaking *Sorcerer*
Forty-five years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis and second-hand knowledge, from satire to theological debate,…
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects such as Starsky and Hutch> and Police Story, Michael Mann ...
Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind The Lens Online on what compels the director Peter Weir to film such varied stories ...
In 1985, famed screenwriter and novelist William Goldman released his novel 'Heat', introducing the world to Nick Escalante, Nevada’s only freelance...
The story of filmmaker Phil Joanou’s breakthrough in the movie business is basically a pitch-perfect...
December 5th, 2020 will mark the 40th anniversary of a lavish space opera hitting US theaters and subsequently...
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
The night of November 2nd, 1998. The El Cadiz Apartments, Los Angeles. Thief-turned-writer Eddie Little is worried sick; he’s convinced he can hear a ...
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
TELEPOD 1: STATHIS He watches Her, trembling and nerve-twitched, eyes darting, lips pulled back over protruding…
Having heard his friend complain about her boyfriend for what seemed to be a hundredth time,…
What words would YOU use to describe art that is indescribable? It’s a challenge! In my biography of Paul Lehr (2009) I wrote that he was among the...
A beautiful gallery of Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud's spaghetti Western collection 'Lieutenant Blueberry'
From the director of They Live by Night, Rebel Without a Cause and The Savage Innocents, Nicholas Ray, On...
Writer Annabel Paulsen discusses the psychological and emotional impact of Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic novel.
Long-time independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara was never one to pander to the expectations of either critics...
Having experienced his screenwriting debut with Hickey & Boggs in 1972, Walter Hill went on to pen several...
Writer and critic Tiffany Babb explores the duality of comic creator Gene Luen Yang's style of storytelling
Sonny and Biddy, the incredible designers behind the team of We Buy Your Kids, sit down with NeoText.
An essay exploring the ways in which the Alien movie franchise exposes the horrors of the working class.
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
With an artistic experience spanning the spa between cartoons and comics and everywhere in between, Alex Toth's career is certainly nothing to scoff at!
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane
A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested that I look at it. I read it and thought ‘If I’m going to make a...
An analysis of the themes surrounding gender, sexuality, nature, and enlightenment in Alejandro Jodorowsky's seminal 1973 film, The Holy Mountain.
Few films permeate the gestalt consciousness like Star Wars (“I am your father”, “Use the Force”…
If you were to compile a list of the most impressive and exhilarating car chases in the history of the motion pictures, it’s more than likely that one ...
After the success of 'Raising Arizona', Joel and Ethan Coen were given the chance to do something a little more ambitious, with a budget of somewhere...
A retrospective interview with award-winning science fiction author David Gerrold
Twenty-one years on, David Fincher’s The Game (1997) has come to be seen as a prescient, schadenfreude look at the gulf between us and the “one ...
As far back as I can remember, director Martin Scorsese has been synonymous with wiseguys, mooks, goombahs, and spin-on-a-dime funny-how guys delivering...
"I came to it because of Ellroy. When I read ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I just got hooked on the characters, got caught up emotionally in their individual...
Multiple award-winning science fiction author and genre scholar Adam Roberts breaks down his ultimate definition of "Science Fiction."
Film writer and critic Matt Belenky discusses Christopher McQuirre's neo-western action film 'The Way of the Gun'
The worldwide search for the legendary Method actor soon becomes an obsession. The story of one man’s coming of age.
Haunting and evocative, Adam Roberts and François Schuiten present a sci-fi novella where humanity is in the grip of a mysterious compulsion.