The femme fatale has been one of film’s most fascinating archetypes since the earliest days of the medium. Sexy, self-assured, and quite often murderous, she seduces and destroys with abandon. Her ...

femme fatale: an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous or disastrous situations; siren. [<French: literally, fatal woman] Barbara Stanwyck’s black and ...

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This week, Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” picks up the femme fatale and takes her for another run at her usual narrative — seducing a good man with doe eyes and promises of sex and money. Things have ...

If you've ever read a hardboiled detective novel, or seen a film noir, the first scene of SundanceTV's new southern crime thriller Hap & Leonard will seem very, very familiar. "Here comes trouble," ...

The femme fatale has been a stock character across film genres. The term is defined as a seductive or alluring woman who either causes distress or disaster for any man who becomes involved with her.

Femme fatales have been around for a long time and continue to be an indelible figure in cinematic history, including in the upcoming Netflix film "Hit Man." The femme fatale is a figure that dates ...

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Movies are never so much fun as when they contain an element of the disreputable. The appeal of cheap, trashy movies, with their fantasies of sex and violence, is that they lure us in with the promise ...

Leggy blondes dressed in white, double crosses, surreal events and snappy dialogue. These are the benchmarks of Alfred Hitchcock's films. Femme Fatale, the latest from serial disappointment Brian De ...