BearManor Media News — cries in the night

“Nailing down a coffin lid is far easier than nailing down a universally agreed upon definition of the term film noir.”                                                                                          Robert Strom   Every so often a book comes along which somehow manages to evoke both our childhood and our love of films at the same time. Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir is such a book.     I grew up in a place I used to call Shadowland, a quiet suburb of Toronto known officially as Don Mills (the first formally designed suburb in North America) where there wasn’t much to do but listen to music and...