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Unpublished Raymond Chandler short story to appear in literary magazine

Nightmare will appear in the Strand magazine and portray an ‘incredibly sentimental’ side of the 20th century writer

The Guardian - US

Streaming: the best private-eye movies

Jo Nesbø adaptation Killer Heat is the latest in a long line of detective films, from Chinatown and The Long Goodbye to the Knives Out series

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: an enraging look at iconic Black musicians being ripped off

Nile Rodgers and Chaka Khan speak frankly about money and music. Plus, Sam Neill and Annette Bening star in a glossy mystery drama. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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Will & Harper to One Life: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele, who recently came out as trans, go on a witty and candid road trip. Plus Anthony Hopkins stars as a Kindertransport hero in a true tearjerker

The Guardian - UK

What to Watch's 100 best movies of all time

The What to Watch team weighs in on the eternal debate: what are the best movies of all time? From Chaplin to Iron Man, here are our picks.

WhatToWatch

7 new to Max movies to stream now with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

Max is adding more acclaimed movies in September 2025 — here are seven new picks with at least 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tom’s Guide

I Tried to Finish a Dead Man’s Novel

It is both a gift and a curse to be handed a briefcase containing a life’s work

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20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Second Murderer by Denise Mina; Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott; Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter; Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary; The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

The Guardian - UK

The shadow of Raymond Chandler looms in Call Me Marlowe, an international tale seeking humanity in the darkness

Catherine de Saint Phalle lived alone for many years in the country in France, where she published five novels and toured with controversial author Michel Houellebecq.

The Conversation

Marlowe: The real crime isn’t the dead body in this soft-focus stab at a familiar genre

Marlowe is set in 1930s Hollywood, where deceptions are a dime a dozen and dark corners hold secrets. But the real crime's the film itself.

The New Daily

May movie guide: Dracula, Mermaids, Farnham, car chases and Guardians of the Galaxy finale

The best new movies in May include Nicholas Cage as a vampire, a live remake of a cartoon classic and the 10th movie in a hit series.

The New Daily

Liam Neeson on his 100th film, Marlowe on Sky: ‘where have the years gone? I’ve been blessed’

The Irish actor is appearing in Sky’s new hardboiled detective film, Marlowe , based on the work of Raymond Chandler

Evening Standard

Streaming: the best films about motherhood

This Mother’s Day weekend, let’s celebrate self-sacrificing, feuding, exhausted, loving screen mums, from Stella Dallas to Lady Bird, Mommie Dearest to 20th Century Women

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Manchester Evening News

The new films and shows out on Now this weekend – March 17

Sky’s subscription service has some great new content dropping this weekend

Belfast Live

Liam Neeson tells how he's determined to keep fighting into his 70s

The Hollywood legend was in Dublin as his 100th movie premiered

Irish Mirror

Liam Neeson reveals he wants to keep 'fighting' well into his 70s

The Hollywood legend has no plans of slowing down

The Guardian - UK

Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye

Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark

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Liam Neeson confirmed as first guest for RTE Late Late Show St Patrick's Day special

The Taken star will chat to Ryan on the show which falls on St Patrick's Day

Boston Herald

Movie review: 'Marlowe' a tepid take on classic noir

“Marlowe” is an adaptation of the 2014 book “The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel” by Irish novelist and Booker Award winner John Banville (“Doctor Copernicus”), writing as his pseudonymous other self Benjamin Black. It is a detective story set in 1939 Los Angeles, featuring Raymond Chandler’s immortal modern-day knight…

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Marlowe’: Liam Neeson suitably world-weary as the tough private eye

Following in the gumshoe footsteps of Bogart, Mitchum and other greats, Irish actor leads outstanding cast in convoluted but enjoyable film noir.

Tribune News Service

TV Tinsel: 1-case-per-episode format has Johnson, Lyonne smiling about 'Poker Face'

She doesn’t wear a rumpled raincoat or drive a smoking Peugeot, but the persistent detective on Peacock’s “Poker Face” does everything else that “Columbo” did.

Belfast Live

Marlowe: First look at new crime thriller starring Liam Neeson as private detective

The film is based on the 2014 novel 'The Black-Eyed Blonde' by John Banville

Marie Claire

The 40 Greatest Murder Mystery Movies

Complete with more than a few twist endings.

The Conversation

How crime fiction went global, embracing themes from decolonisation to climate change

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

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