3 Days of the Condor: An Unconventional Christmas (and Easter?) Movie
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3 Days of the Condor: An Unconventional Christmas (and Easter?) Movie

When we think about Christmas movies, our minds typically turn to classics like It’s a Wonderful Life or Home Alone, or even action thrillers like Die Hard, whose status as a holiday film remains a point of debate. But one film that rarely enters the conversation—yet deserves a closer look—is the 1975 espionage thriller 3 Days of the Condor. Directed by Sydney Pollack and starring…

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Modern Crime Fiction: The Noir Legacy in Winslow, Connelly, Burke, and Crais
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Modern Crime Fiction: The Noir Legacy in Winslow, Connelly, Burke, and Crais

The legacy of noir fiction, established by pioneers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald, lives on in the work of four contemporary masters of crime fiction. Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, and Robert Crais have each taken elements of classic noir and transformed them for modern readers, creating

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