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.

L.A. Confidential marked the halfway point in Myers’ career, who has since gone on to earn an Oscar nomination for Emma (1996) and work on projects as varied as The Painted Veil and The Golden ...

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 ...

A Mansion With a Starring Role in ‘LA Confidential’ Hits the Market for $7.5 Million The architectural treasure is where Kim Basinger's character called home in the neo-noir crime thriller.

It turns out that Warner Bros. almost developed a sequel to the 1997 crime film “L.A. Confidential,” and the late Chadwick Boseman would’ve starred in the movie. Helgeland co-wrote the ...

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” was, of course, based on the 1990 novel by James Ellroy, and Ellroy’s vision — of a corruption that seeps into the very pores of society — pulsates through the movie.

But "L.A. Confidential" doesn't have the same layers of nuance; it embraces the happy-ending theory of filmmaking, which finds Russell Crowe's lion of a character instantly falling in love with ...

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