Curtis Hanson

Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer on Valkyrie

Juices Flowing

Bum Rap

50 Cent wants to be an actor . . . but he's not

Goy Gevalt

Pretty but useless, like a Prada with a broken heel

A Gift to Grief

The Door in the Floor was adapted from John Irving's A Widow for One Year

Blue Cross-breed

Ron Shelton combines Ellroy and Ayer to get a familiar bad-cop movie in which L.A. burns

Run, Rabbit, Run

Pickings are Slim Shady, but Eminem busts out of a bad movie

Westlake Story

Payback, umpteenth version of noir author's work, pays audience in full

Retouching Evil

Using detailed instructions left by Orson Welles, top film editor Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie" ever, Welles' Touch of Evil

Sucker Punch

Palmetto's faux noir barks up wrong tree

The Big Sleazy

Film noir's back on the map with gritty L.A. Confidential