Filmnoir Stories

An anomaly has been detected within the universe of Who Framed Roger Rabbit / Toontown Continuity Layer (1947 Los Angeles-Toon Interface Reality). Subject A (Male: Jasper Luke Rabbit) and Subject B (Female: Naomi Voss) have been identified as linked anomalous entities, consistently deviating from established canon trajectories. Across all recorded instances, both subjects exhibit repeated convergence events resulting in narrative disruption, timeline instability, and unauthorized romantic development. Memory discontinuity protocols are ineffective. Cross-instance familiarity indicators persist despite reset conditions. Classification: UNIVERSE-CLASS ANOMALY // ACTIVE Recommended action: monitor convergence. Do not interfere. [ANOMALY FILE 01 // CLASSIFIED: STANDALONE EVENT - UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE] A gender-bent reimagining of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" told through smoke, laughter, and spilled ink.

Harlem, 1935. Chaque soir, Nora Bell chante sous les lumières dorées d'un club de jazz. Sa voix fait rêver toute une salle, mais elle cache une douleur que personne ne connaît : son frère a disparu après avoir travaillé pour l'un des propriétaires de cabaret les plus puissants de Harlem. Un soir, un pianiste mystérieux nommé Elias Cole lui remet une photographie. Son frère y apparaît aux côtés de trois hommes influents. Au dos de l'image, une seule phrase : « La vérité sera jouée à minuit. » Nora décide de découvrir ce qui lui est arrivé. Avec Elias, elle plonge dans les coulisses du Harlem nocturne : clubs de jazz, salles de spectacle, appartements luxueux et arrière-salles où se négocient des affaires que personne ne doit découvrir. Mais derrière les lumières, les costumes et la musique se cache un réseau de secrets reliant certains clubs, des hommes puissants et une affaire qui pourrait bouleverser Harlem. Plus Nora approche de la vérité, plus le danger se rapproche d'elle. Et lorsque minuit arrivera, elle devra monter sur scène une dernière fois. Car parfois, une chanson peut révéler ce que des années de silence ont tenté de cacher. Dans une ville où tout le monde danse, les secrets sont les seuls à ne jamais s'arrêter.

Soline Caldwell has spent years avoiding the spotlight. While her sister, Olivine Esteve Caldwell, has become one of the most beloved actresses of her generation, Soline prefers to remain behind the camera, studying film and building a life outside the glamour of her family's name. But one photograph changes everything. After an accidental encounter with one of Hollywood's most recognizable young actors, Soline finds herself at the center of a story she never asked to be part of. As Olivine prepares to star in the highly anticipated remake of Jardin de Roses Noires; the legendary film that made their family a household name, Soline unexpectedly finds herself drawn into the production, and increasingly closer to the man she should stay away from. As Soline begins an internship on the production, she finds herself increasingly drawn into the world of Jardin-and increasingly closer to the man she should stay away from. But the more time she spends beneath the lights and behind the cameras, the harder it becomes to separate the stories on screen from the ones unfolding around her. In a world where photographs become evidence and rumors become headlines, the truth is rarely as interesting as the story people choose to believe. And when the whole world is watching, falling in love may be the easiest part.

we need more Sal Mineo love in this world... dedicated to @PadmeSkywalker2 Part 2 of the Adorable Actor Series!!! <3 (*STILL UPDATING PART 1*)

When private detective Tom Hart is hired to find a missing heiress, he uncovers a web of betrayal, greed, and murder. In the rain-soaked streets of 1940s Los Angeles, no one is innocent.

When her fiancé and close friend go missing in 1944, feisty broad Dahlia Stevens tangles with a familiar mafia don and pursues wild adventure on one fateful night through New York City to bring back her boys. Will she rise to the occasion or get canned before she has the chance?

The ultimate disgruntled fan learns that revenge has a way of biting back, in this hilarious and moving tale of maturity, and forgiveness, delayed until it's almost too late. ____________ "An addiction to a beloved story can be as exhilarating--and as debilitating--as any chemical dependency." Nobody knows this better than Natheny Baruwal, a 26-year-old computer programmer and the ultimate disgruntled fan. When famed movie director Frank Castle releases his worse-than-horrible prequel, the aspiring screenwriter in Natheny takes over, and thus begins a convoluted revenge campaign via the Net that will ultimately bring him face-to-face with his hero/nemesis. But to truly escape the Master's influence, he will have to be bested, outdone, defeated on his own turf. Unfortunately, Nathe is also locked in a legal battle with his mother over her half-falling-down McMansion, where he lives like a squatter, the house a hostage to the ugly divorce triggered by her endless renovations. And his mother's not the only woman in his life giving him trouble. But they have more to teach him than he's ready to be taught, and--as he may yet learn--revenge has a way of biting back. Is he really writing that screenplay? Or is it, like the house itself, merely a façade that's forever threatening to collapse? Find out as his story converges with those of four friends, all groping toward their own 21st-century adulthoods, in this hilarious and moving tale of maturity, and forgiveness, delayed until it's almost too late. Excerpted from the forthcoming novel 'Twilight of the Adults'. P.D. Walter lives in Toronto. Copyright © 2016, P. D. Walter (pdwalterbooks.com)

For year 12 English, I studied the movie called "Good night and good luck" directed by the infamous George Clooney. The movie revolves around the prominent issues in regards to the McCarthyism period of US history. It looks at the constant tension and battles between the Soviet Union and US during a time when the Cold War was just around the corner. While it did have serious implications, the movie takes a cinematic spin on this topic. With postmodernism techniques glittered in every scene and take, the movie heavily uses film noir through its use of black and white, the use of chiaroscuro lighting further accentutes the tonality that Clooney potrays as Edward Murrow steps out of the shadows to embody the stance against his main enemy: Senator Joseph McCarthy...

Vincent Black, a promising young college student, finds his life turned upside down when his beloved university beauty queen, Tana Molnar, is shot dead at a community event. Driven for answers, Vincent probes an occult, phantom-like sex trafficking operation by the name of Dream Rabbit. Past the point of no return, his continual search for answers threaten to lead him to a similar early grave.

A compilation of film reviews and descriptions primarily from the Classical Hollywood era.

little shadow also known as the most adorable actor you may or may not be seeing today ;) Part 1 of the Adorable Actor series!!! <3

The year is 1950, when the Golden Age of Hollywood is at its peak and the hate of Communism is rampant in American society. Caught in the middle, are two unexpected lovers..... She is a wickedly handsome seductress with a tragic past and a hunger for fame in the Golden Age of Hollywood. In her pursuit of fame, she has lost her identity behind the mask of something she is not. He is an acclaimed screenwriter with a secret allegiance to a Communist spy ring and a guilty pleasure for duplicitous women. Through tragedy, scandal, and betrayal, how will their love story come to be?

When Lownote Jones' bass guitar disappears, he has to become a hard-boiled detective to track it down.

Inspired by Duke Ellington's soundtrack to Anatomy of a Murder

It's rare when criminals don't have to worry at night about being arrested or shoot dead.

Parch was a guy who couldn't look you straight in the eye but would challenge God to a fistfight and have a shot at winning. There was no doubt he was powerful, but the fine line he was using as his skipping rope was about to trip him. Also on AO3

Fanmade continuation of Backbone. Following the fallout from The Artifact, Private Investigator Howard Lotor finds himself thrust into a life filled with opportunity, where one must play both sides to guarantee their survival. However, he owes an unpayable debt to a particular Clarissa Bloodworth, who convinced Renee Wilson to take a deal that would guarantee Howard's survival. Now tools ready for Clarissa to command and recently recovered from the plague which was The Artifact, Howard and Renee find themselves formalising their partnership in a rather personal way before they look ahead towards the future... Towards becoming scourges that lay within the bowels of Vancouver. Coarse language will be used throughout this story, although in moderation considering the original game is rated 16+. It is recommended that you do not read this if you are beneath that age range, although I am not going to stop you! [Word Count: 40,000, 50,000 | This is fanfiction, there will be mistakes! | Updated whenever each individual act is finished to offer a fluid reading experience!] expect a better cover when act ii releases lol - this one is just temporary ACT I - COMPLETE! ACT II - IN THE WORKS!

A comic I made in class for English :>

What should have been a routine investigation into a cold case of a ghostly student's murder leads Harry 'The Hammer' Potter-Mason back down a dark road where he finds himself the right wizard at the wrong time in the right place to see his peers petrified one by one. Seeing the similarities between past and present, The Hammer works the old case and the new with the help of his trusted friends and investigation team to bring the true killer to justice only to find that it leads back to the only person who could have started all of this: the Dark Lord Voldemort. Find out more in the Hammer's next thrilling mystery: The Case of the Serpent's Shadow. THIS IS A SEQUEL TO THE CASE OF THE CINTAMANI STONE

A short story about gangs in America in the 1920s!