noirworthwatching.blogspot.com
NoirWorthWatching: NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951)
http://noirworthwatching.blogspot.com/2015/08/no-questions-asked-1951_85.html
Saturday, 1 August 2015. NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951). This is an edited version of an article which appeared in the Summer 2015 Edition of Noir City. 8220;They turn a spotlight on you when they keep narrowing the circle closing in for the kill…You wonder how it happened and where it really began…”. Hough there are plenty of weightier noirs, few have the irresistible, jacked-up urgency of No Questions Asked. Pundit Jay MacIntyre says of the picture, “it’s a pulp novel come to life”. And Hart to Hart. The la...
noirworthwatching.blogspot.com
NoirWorthWatching: July 2014
http://noirworthwatching.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html
Friday, 25 July 2014. VANISHING POINT (1970)/ GONE IN 60 SECONDS (1974). An ex-cop/ former racing driver (Barry Newman) gets whacked-out on Benzedrine and sets out to muscle a torqued-up 1970 Dodge Charger from Denver to San Francisco in record time. County cops and state troopers soon are all over him like a cheap suit. Unfortunately 'Vanishing Point' turns out to be a sour conceit of a movie that comes apart under the weight of its self-conscious heaviosity and general raggedness. Apart from Dean J...
ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.com
Ivebeenreadinglately: 4/1/15
http://ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Monday, April 27, 2015. Off, off, off with their heads! On the recommendation of the polymath Steve Donoghue. I recently read Jean Plaidy's novel of Mary, Queen of Scots,. Royal Road to Fotheringay. 1955), and its closing scene reminded me of two things:. 1 That the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots was a bizarre event, featuring details no fiction writer would dare invent.
noirworthwatching.blogspot.com
NoirWorthWatching: March 2015
http://noirworthwatching.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Sunday, 29 March 2015. SUNNYLANDS NOIR: 2015 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (January 2015). In Aussie-speak, if someone is ‘mad as a cut snake’ he's so ‘round the bend you don’t want to know. Here the someone is Jim aka ‘Pommie’ (Sullivan Stapleton) who after release from prison loses no time in tracking down an old mate, Merv ‘Sparra’ Farrell (Alex Russell). Like the others, ‘Cut Snake’ is coolly committed to its story and characters. Though the film’s set in 1974, there'...In contrast is R...
noirworthwatching.blogspot.com
NoirWorthWatching: July 2015
http://noirworthwatching.blogspot.com/2015_07_01_archive.html
Friday, 31 July 2015. HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN CLASSIC BRITISH FILM NOIR. Something I've been working up for a while. Any suggestions for additions would be welcome! The Good Die Young. The Intimate Stranger AKA Finger of Guilt. Chase a Crooked Shadow. 3 Steps to the Gallows AKA White Fire. The Last Page AKA Man Bait. Third Party Risk AKA The Deadly Game. The House Across the Lake AKA Heat Wave. Traitor Spy AKA The Torso Trunk Mystery. Shake Hands with the Devil. The Noose AKA The Silk Noose. Carroll, Leo G.
internationalnoir.blogspot.com
International Noir Fiction: April 2015
http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
International Noir Fiction includes reviews and ideas on crime novels (mostly from outside the U.S.). Tuesday, April 21, 2015. New review, new magazine on-line. My review of Helene Tursten's The Beige Man is now live a the new crime fiction magazine and website, The Life Sentence: have a look at the new site! The url is www.thelifesentence.net. Links to this post. Wednesday, April 01, 2015. Jake Needham, The Dead American. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Jake Needham's Letter from Asia.
spaceythompson.blogspot.com
hardboiled wonderland: June 2015
http://spaceythompson.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
Noir Literature, Film and Culture. Sunday, June 21, 2015. W: Michael Kinirons, Fiona Seres. D: Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Thursday, June 18, 2015. So, the bad news is N@B-Indianapolis isn't happening tomorrow night. Sucks. I was looking forward to that. The good news? N@B-St. Louis is back on next month. On July 17 with a forthcoming lineup, but damn, it's been long enough, huh? In a dubious bit of synchronicity Jen Conley. Wrote a piece about N@B-Global for The Los Angeles Review of Books. S tee totaling ass...
noirworthwatching.blogspot.com
NoirWorthWatching: August 2015
http://noirworthwatching.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
Monday, 31 August 2015. ROOM AT THE BOTTOM: LAURENCE HARVEY AND FILM NOIR. 8220;I’ve never been able to like you”, Sam Houston (Richard Boone) to Col. William Travis (Laurence Harvey), The Alamo (1960). 8220;Get down off your high horse, Travis”, Col. Davy Crockett (John Wayne). Then, of course, there’s Laurence Harvey, a man who many people disliked and some despised, both as an actor and human being. Walk on the Wild Side, 1962,. 1961), Capucine and Barbara Stanwyck (. Walk on the Wild Side, 1962.
mbtb-books.blogspot.com
MBTB's Mystery Book Blog: August 2015
http://mbtb-books.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html
MBTB's Mystery Book Blog. Murder by the Book, Portland, Oregon, reviews mystery and crime books. Welcome to Murder by the Book. S blog about what we've read recently. You can find our website at www.mbtb.com. Saturday, August 22, 2015. Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol. Bitter Lemon Press, 224 pages, $14.95 (c2001, English ed. c2011), translated by Ruth Whitehouse. Esmahan Aykol is an İ. 8220;‘If you spoke German as well as my Turkish … Well, not German, because that’s a difficult langua...It is AykolR...
noirworthwatching.blogspot.com
NoirWorthWatching: HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN CLASSIC BRITISH FILM NOIR
http://noirworthwatching.blogspot.com/2015/07/hollywood-actors-in-british-film-noir_73.html
Friday, 31 July 2015. HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN CLASSIC BRITISH FILM NOIR. Something I've been working up for a while. Any suggestions for additions would be welcome! The Good Die Young. The Intimate Stranger AKA Finger of Guilt. Chase a Crooked Shadow. 3 Steps to the Gallows AKA White Fire. The Last Page AKA Man Bait. Third Party Risk AKA The Deadly Game. The House Across the Lake AKA Heat Wave. Traitor Spy AKA The Torso Trunk Mystery. Shake Hands with the Devil. The Noose AKA The Silk Noose. Carroll, Leo G.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT