Thursday, March 28, 2013

Stanley Morgan: The Courier

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In my on-going exploration of British crime and adventure paperbacks, I dipped into The Courier by Stanley Morgan. I left it pretty soon wh...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Kyor-ogly (1960)

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Kyor-ogly is a Soviet adventure film from 1960. It was the first Cinemascope film in colour made in the state of Azerbaijan, and it tells a...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Weasels Ripped My Flesh contest

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You still have some time to take part in the Weasels Ripped My Flesh contest. Take a look here , you might win a copy of the book!
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Forgotten book? Surely not. I must be an exception to have read this book only now, when I'm 40. I guess my teachers were suspicious of ...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Une grosse tête

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Une grosse tête from 1961 is a funny little French film written by Francois Truffaut and directed by his pal, Claude de Givray . The film s...
Friday, March 08, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Weasels Ripped My Flesh!

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This isn't actually a forgotten book by any means, but some of the stories and their writers are forgotten, if anyone knew them in the f...
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

K J Wignall: Death

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De a th is the third and last installation in Kevin "K J" Wignall's Mercian trilogy , set of vampire books aimed at YA audienc...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie, or actually a loads of them

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Theodore Rex: doncha just love 'em? We held another movie festival at the cabin loaded with all kinds of weird stuff just last weeke...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: My Bonny Lies Under the Sea

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Ray Alan was the pseudonym of one Joseph Lawrence Valls-Russell (born probably in 1922, died in 2007) of whom not much is known. Seems like ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

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I managed to see this German cult film about a girl dormitory recently and I thought it was worth blogging, even though it's not Tuesda...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Ideal Hellbient Party

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I noticed while checking out some other older posts that this had been lingering in the cyberspace for years. I don't really know what i...

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Minnesota Clay

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Minnesota Clay was Sergio Corbucci's second western and the first one released under his Italian name - the earlier one, Massacre at Gr...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Rural Noir: A Visual Essay

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Brian Lindenmuth, the fiction editor of Spinetingler Mag, has put up another great Pinterest board, this time on rural noir. Take a look her...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Adam Diment: The Dolly Dolly Spy

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Adam Diment's The Dolly Dolly Spy (translated in Finnish with a misleading title Nukkevakooja ) was an enormously popular spy novel pub...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Interview with Megan Abbott

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I'm doing a piece on great American crime writer Megan Abbott for the magazine of the Finnish Whodunit Society. Here's an intervie...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Another female Hard Case writer!

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See more here .
Thursday, February 07, 2013

Review of Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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Or actually a review of half of it. I wrote a review of this collection of stories from vintage men's magazines for a Finnish cultural...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Inglourious Basterds

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I was finally able to see Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds last night. I watched it from my small TV set, so it wasn...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Quand la ville s'éveille (1975)

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I  bought this French crime film on an old VHS cassette from a thrift store for 10 or 20 cents. I knew nothing about it, but I thought it m...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy's classic western novel from 1985 has only now been translated in Finnish and I finished the translation a week back. I...