L.A. Confidential is a crime and mystery thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson. It is an adaptation of the novel by James Ellroy. The film follows three detetcyives of the L.A.P.D. who investigate ...

"The director died, so now I can disparage the movie," author James Ellroy said. James Ellroy isn’t keeping his opinions confidential anymore. The “L.A. Confidential” novelist criticized the 1997 film ...

James Ellroy, the author of L.A. Confidential, made an appearance at the L.A. Times Festival of Books where he talked about the film adaptation of his book. “People love the movie L.A. Confidential,” ...

Movies are about more than awards, but the films that walk away with Oscars is one of the way of distinguishing years in everything from time-capsule radio contests to greeting cards. So it’s worth a ...

This Friday night, a small L.A. audience will have a rare chance to enter the noir world of L.A. Confidential with a special benefit screening at one of the 1997 Academy Award-winning film’s most ...

“People love the movie ‘L.A. Confidential,’” Ellroy said. “I think it’s turkey of the highest form. I think Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger are impotent. The director died, so now I can disparage the ...

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There are some movies that no matter what format they’re available in or what platform they’re streaming on, I have to revisit from time to time. As 1997’s L.A. Confidential was recently added as part ...

"I got home, and said, 'We can’t do that anymore,'" Helgeland recalled of the sequel script starring Chadwick Boseman, Guy Pearce, and Russell Crowe. Screenwriter Brian Helgeland claimed to Deadline ...

An emotional and reflective Guy Pearce got choked up during a new interview while recalling unpleasant experiences working with Kevin Spacey on Curtis Hanson’s classic 1997 film L.A. Confidential, and ...

film noir had a renaissance in the 1990s, and the angsty decade produced everything from gritty crime classics to ...