Julia is a writer for Collider with a penchant for peanut sauce, Savage Garden, and the great outdoors (provided she's observing from indoors). The death of illusion would be the death of cinema, a ...

The images from 1940s film noir that stick with us so often exist in darkness. Rain-slick streets casually lit by street lamps. The shadows of street-smart men and women arching toward an inevitable ...

Vera Caspary and George Sklar’s “Laura,” now at the Tiffany, is a daring but somewhat imprudent vehicle for its star, Linda Hamilton. Famous more for the haunting strains of its score than for any ...

Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the killing of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture ...

James Ellroy, the two-fisted author behind such crime novels as L.A. Confidential and Black Dahlia, is making a rare foray into film. Fox 2000 has signed the author to write a remake of Laura, the ...

This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the ...

Gene Tierney was an elegant Hollywood movie star who received an Academy Award nomination and was romantically linked with a future president. She lived and worked in Topeka during the late 1950s ...