From the evil genius masterminds to the loyal henchmen and alluring femme fatales, many of these Bond stars have amassed ...

Somewhere in the shadowy corners of modern storytelling lurk women who break hearts and shatter worlds both onscreen and in the minds of audiences. The femme fatale, the timeless archetype of danger, ...

A femme fatale is in the business of fooling people, though we’ve seen enough of these characters to be overly familiar with their tricks. Maybe that’s why, in 2023, the most effective femme fatale is ...

All is not what it seems in Danny Boyle’s pulse-pounding “Trance” (April 5), the latest E-ride from the director of Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” and “127 Hours.” At first the movie seems to be ...

It’s a month to give thanks for cigarettes and chiaroscuro lighting, for sardonic voice-overs and unhappy endings, for doomed detectives and frisky femme fatales. November is “Noirvember” at the ...

Ever since Glenn Close boiled a rabbit in vengeance, the ‘other woman’ has gotten a bad rap – often portrayed as crazy, tempestuous, lascivious or just downright evil. There’s an aura of misogyny ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...