The 1997 film “L.A. Confidential” landed two Oscars, including one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Helgeland and Best Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger. It was also nominated for Best Picture.

As 1997’s L.A. Confidential was recently added as part of the new on Hulu movie releases, I found myself revisiting director Curtis Hanson’s award-winning noir masterpiece yet again.

Curtis Hanson’s gripping, graceful 1997 thriller “L.A. Confidential” is such an immersive invocation of a bygone past that it can be hard to process the fact that the film is now 20 years old.

“L.A. Confidential” went on to receive nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture, winning Best Adapted Screenplay and landing Crowe’s co-star Kim Basinger a Best Supporting Actress win.

The late Chadwick Boseman was set to star in L.A. Confidential 2 but Warner Bros. ended up passing on the project. This news comes by way of The Ringer, which posted a retrospective on the way neo ...

Even so, “L.A. Confidential” remains a movie with nary a wasted scene, a movie that fulfilled its mission so effectively as to serve as a model for countless films that have followed in its ...

James Ellroy doesn’t mince words regarding “L.A. Confidential,” the 1997 film adaptation of his fiction-crime novel of the same name. Speaking at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of ...

Russell Crowe has said that the studio behind "L.A. Confidential" stopped paying for his hotel and rental car to get him to drop out of the movie. In the 1997 movie, which was released by Warner ...

If L.A. Confidential is picked up, it will be the second new period piece/L.A. crime series, following Frank Darabont’s upcoming Lost Angels on TNT.

This is not the first time an “L.A. Confidential” series has been attempted. After the success of the film, a pilot starring Kiefer Sutherland and Eric Roberts among others was shot. It was ...