Fifty-seven years ago today, American audiences got their first glimpse of “The Asphalt Jungle.” John Huston’s hard-boiled film noir was an influence on Quentin Tarantino, whose first feature, ...

Many things fail to live up to their billing when you finally see them in person - Las Vegas in broad daylight, Mars through an amateur telescope, the musical "Cats" - but the Indianapolis 500 is not ...

“The Asphalt Jungle” (John Huston, 1950) at 9 a.m. on TCM. Based on W.R. Burnett’s novel, Huston’s great, fatalistic heist movie is also one of the ultimate film noirs — with Sterling Hayden, Sam ...

When you buy a ticket for the theatre, you usually have some idea of what the show is about. For the audience at Asphalt Jungle Shorts, the plays, actors and even the venues will remain a mystery ...

Very possibly. For sure, part of my newfound fondness for spark-free combustion is due to the slew of really superb oil-burners I've driven recently. For instance, we've got a BMW 335d in our ...

I have filled your pain. Literally. After dodging potholes for a month and watching untold installments of the “pothole patrol” on the local news, I recently decided it was high time to quit ...

"Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays." It's fight night at Paradise City, the low-rent, small-town sweatbox in Robert Wise's underappreciated 1949 palooka gem The Set-Up, one of five sterling ...

The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, a left-handed form of human endeavor. Recently paroled ...

A minor classic of film noir and one of the earliest heist capers, The Asphalt Jungle gets a welcome re-release this week to coincide with the NFT's John Huston retrospective. This tale of a jewel ...

Most cities find out sooner rather than later that vehicles have a rapacious appetite for any available road space, and that it is totally impractical to endlessly build infrastructure in a vain ...