The femme fatale is a figure that dates back centuries. In Greek mythology there were The Sirens, whose song dragged sailors to the depths of the seas, as well as Clytemnestra — wife, seductress, and ...

When Ingrid Veninger told a room full of actors, screenwriters and directors that she wanted to see more movies written and directed by women, the crowd cheered in agreement. When she asked that same ...

Fifty years ago next week, audiences got their first glimpse of Elizabeth Taylor sitting atop an enormous sphinx as the titular character in 1963's Cleopatra. She was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt ...

Irma Vep is a reboot, remake, sequel, and update of creator Olivier Assayas' cult 1996 arthouse movie about movies. The original movie was about Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung, playing a fictional ...

Looking back, the first decade of the 21st century was an unusually disparate time for ’70s movie brats. While Steven Spielberg remained a box office titan, several films produced in the 2000s were ...

An extravagant suspense cocktail of wacky and lascivious ingredients that goes down fine, Brian De Palma’s “Femme Fatale” gives Rebecca Romijn-Stamos a chance to shine as the duplicitous title broad, ...

Danger, desire and despair. These are just some of the key elements that make a classic noir film. One of the biggest celebrations of noir films, Noir City: Hollywood, celebrates its 21st anniversary ...

Jill Vice thinks diabolical dames get a bad rap. The San Francisco writer-performer’s new solo show at the Marsh, “A Fatal Step,” plays lovingly with the tropes of film noir, but it’s from a point of ...

Other than being diametrically opposed to the opinion of the guy who wrote her character, you could say Anne Hathaway's first day of work on the thriller "Serenity" went great. When she greeted writer ...

WASHINGTON — Audrey Totter, an actress who specialized in playing temptresses, dangerous dames, and women harboring dark schemes in a series of movies from Hollywood's film noir period of the 1940s ...

Never Been Kissed actor Drew Barrymore has told director Rob Reiner she wants to play a “femme fatale b***” in his next film. While hosting the Spinal Tap 2 director on The Drew Barrymore Show, the ...