Local film critic and podcaster Matthew Turner returns for a second mini season of film noir classics, which will run exclusively at Chiswick Cinema throughout November 2025.
Programme Information Tenzing | 11:30AM, 4:00PM Pressure | 11:30AM, 2:00PM Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom | 11:35AM, 1:20PM The Social Reckoning | 11:40AM, 2:15PM, 7:45PM The Lost Children Of Tuam | 1:50PM Beauty And The Beast | 2:20PM Resident Evil | 3:55PM, 8:05PM Hadestown: The Musical | 4:30PM Verity | 4:40PM, 7:50PM Sense And Sensibility | 4:50PM, 7:15PM Naza | 6:05PM Digger | 7:35PM
Broadly speaking, the term film noir (coined by French film critics) refers to Hollywood thrillers and dramas from the 1940s and ’50s that were perceived to have a degree of darkness and cynicism, reflecting post-WII attitudes at the time. Film noir stories frequently revolve around crime, corruption, greed, illicit sex and murder, exposing the dark heart beating beneath the American Dream.