Monday, July 29, 2013

Interview with Ed Gorman

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Check out this good interview with Ed Gorman at The Rap Sheet.
Friday, July 26, 2013

Steve Brewer: Bank Job

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I just finished this hardboiled thriller reminiscent of Elmore Leonard's work the other day. It was the first book I read by Steve Br...
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Friday's Forgotten Book: Sébastien Japrisot: The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun

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Still suffering from a bad back, I finished lying on a sofa the French writer Sébastien Japrisot's thriller La Dame dans l'auto avec...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Hooked Bear (1956)

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Suffering from a bad back I watched some VHS tapes with old animations in them and spotted this Disney cartoon previously unknown to me. I ...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Cause for Alarm (1951)

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I caught this little film noir on a Finnish television just the other night. It's a slightly enjoyable suspense story starring Loretta ...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Dean Koontz: Shattered (1973)

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I've never read much Dean Koontz and my impression of his later and longer work (see here ) has not been very good, but Shattered proved...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Joseph Rosenberger

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When I wrote my first book, Pulpografia (2000), I decided to include some of the better-known men's adventure writers from the seventies...
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Monday, July 08, 2013

New book out!

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I have a new book out. It's a collection of werewolf stories by Finnish writers (mostly new, but with two old ones thrown in), edited by...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Multiplicity (1996)

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I didn't much like Groundhog Day when I saw it, but I've come to realize the film enjoys a bit of a cult following nowadays. I have...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Jack Williamson: Darker Than You Think

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I'm writing this before I've finished the book, so I don't know the outcome and how it will play out, but here goes nevertheless...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: The Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi (1978)

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I watched Ralph Bakshi's early animated version of Tolkien's saga with my son, who's on a Tolkien binge, having watched Peter Ja...
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Richard Matheson RIP

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I'll probably be the last blogger to register the death of Richard Matheson, but he was so influential and so good, I can't let it t...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Letter from paperback writer Len Levinson

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Since I mentioned Len (Leonard) Levinson in a longish post three years ago, this merits reblogging: Len Levinson has sent a letter to the bl...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

John Connolly: Dark Hollow

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Dark Hollow was the first book I've ever read by John Connolly , even though I've known about him for quite some time now. I rememb...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Keith Rawson on Scott Phillips

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Keith Rawson's fabulous post on Scott Phillips , the writer of The Ice Harvest and The Adjustment , both great novels.
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Antti Tuomainen's The Healer

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Not long ago I mentioned Antti Tuomainen and his success in the big world. Here's a very positive review of his dystopian noir thriller,...

Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl

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Lots have already been said about Gillian Flynn's book that's proved to be a bestseller. ( Here's Keith Rawson pretty good essay...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Spring Breakers

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Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is the quintessential neo-noir movie for the 2010's. Why? Because it's a perfect dissection o...
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Friday, June 07, 2013

Four books in a week

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As you've may have noticed, I haven't relly been blogging lately (not even in my Finnish-speaking blog, Julkaisemattomia ). It...
Monday, June 03, 2013

The third generation of the Nummelin family on a Tolkien binge

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We watched Peter Jackson's The Hobbit  when my daughter was last on vacation in Finland with us (she lives with her mother out of Finlan...