pIt#39;s time for another round of retro-noirs as two 90s star-vehicles send us to the 1948-heyday of pulp cinema. First it#39;s the return of Jack Nicholson and Jake Gittes in the emChinatown /emsequel emThe Two Jakes/em, and then Denzel Washington appears as Easy Rawlins in the 1995 adaptation emDevil in a Blue Dress/em. Together these two films make a study in contrasts - with their stars, their stories, and their approach to the material - even as both try to pack us off in a celluloid time machine./ppstrongRecommendations:/strong/ppTristan - a href="https://letterboxd.com/thearcher87/list/sight-sound-ballot-2022/" rel="nofollow"Mock Sight amp; Sound Ballot/a/ppFred - a href="https://letterboxd.com/national2080/list/sight-sound-ballot/" rel="nofollow"Mock Sight amp; Sound Ballot/a/ppWritten amp; Produced by Tristan Johnson amp; a href="http://www.fredpelzer.com/" rel="nofollow"Fred Pelzer/a/ppA Strange Phantom Production/ppMusic by a href="https://incompetech.com/" rel="nofollow"Kevin MacLeod/a./ppa href="http://www.celluloiddirt.com/" rel="nofollow"Learn more about us/a or follow us on a href="https://letterboxd.com/CelluloidDirt/" rel="nofollow"Letterboxd/a/p