Bringing Noir Back at the World Premiere of ‘Hollywood Grit’

August 31, 2025 Elijah Isaiah Johnson

The stars came out for the red carpet premiere of director Ryan Curtis’ latest action noir offering, Hollywood Grit. Starring Max Martini as the titular Grit Thorn, alongside Linda Purl, Patrick Duffy, Nikki Howard, Linc Hand, David B. Meadows, Caylee Cowan, Benito Martinez, Ysabela Espinosa, the film centers around a fallen detective who must confront his past demons and navigate a treacherous path of corruption and deceit to find his missing, estranged singer daughter, unearthing a conspiracy that shakes him to his core.

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Inside the Music of ‘Reminiscence’

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 Mike Manalo

This week, Warner Bros. releases Reminiscence, from the terrific Lisa Joy (co-creator of Westworld), in theaters and on HBO Max. And to celebrate, The Nerds of Color was recently invited to a virtual roundtable with Joy, Grammy-nominated music producer Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman, musical artist Lonr, and legendary composer Ramin Djawadi (Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Game of Thrones, Westworld). Together they discussed the process of writing and composing the moody tones featured in the film, as well as Lonr’s original song for the film, “Save My Love.”

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First Trailer for Lisa Joy’s ‘Reminiscence’ is Finally Here

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Keith Chow

The Greatest Showman stars Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson genre-swap the technicolor movie musical for sun-kissed film noir as they reunite for the mind-bending action thriller, Reminiscence. Lisa Joy takes her Westworld sensibilities to the big screen, making her directorial debut — and re-teaming with Thandiwe Newton — with another project that has characters navigating between reality and reverie.

Check out the first trailer for the noir-ish thriller below!