Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

Karen Read’s murder trial makes me think of 1949’s ‘Cover Up.’ ...

Michael Schein’s play may be titled “OLCC Confidential,” and be inspired by, as his website says, the “so-called ‘Bourbon-gate’ scandal,” in which, as The Oregonian/OregonLive ...