“Our world is filled with codes, subliminal messages – from Silver Lake to the Hollywood Hills” This quote is the centrepiece of Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell’s extraordinary pop culture odyssey ripped straight from the pages of some of the greatest works of speculative postmodern fiction. A dizzying neo-noir with an electrifying performance…

Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott) is an ordinary man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when he inadvertently witnesses a murder. The police want Frank to serve as a key witness to the trial of who they believe the perpetrator to be (a man heavily involved in organized crime). Not wanting…

There are some elements that are so omnipresent in film noir, it has come to almost stereotypically define the genre – fog-laden streets populated by unlikable ruffians, smoky modernist apartments and offices that harbour malicious intentions, deceptive and conflicted men that are compelled to cross the moral boundaries to achieve certain goals, the complex femme…