Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Reflecting Skin

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I remember being very impressed by Philip Ridley's first feature film The Reflecting Skin back in the early nineties. And I wasn...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Nicolas Winding Refn: Valhalla Rising

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I never blogged about Only God Forgives , even though I liked it to a certain extent. It was very exciting and interesting and extremely wel...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Akiva Goldsman: Winter's Tale

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Akiva Goldsman: The Winter's Tale: uneasy mix of whimsical fantasy, some scary and not-so-scary devil horror and sentimental coffee tabl...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Stephen Graham Jones: The Last Final Girl

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Here's a book I really wanted to like, but didn't for some reason or another get in. I understood Jones's idea of a metafiction...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Michael Koryta: The Ridge

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Recently read: Michael Koryta's horror novel The Ridge . I'd read earlier one of Koryta's PI novels featuring Lincoln Perry and ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire (1953) and an assortement of other strange films

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Fear and Desire We had another film festival at the cabin with some friends of mine. ( Here and here are posts on the earlier festivals....
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Monday, February 10, 2014

The 2000th blog post of Pulpetti

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I've been thinking a lot lately of what I should be writing here now that I have reached the 2,000th post line. I've been unaware...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

John Grant's massive encyclopedia of film noir

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One of my Christmas presents was this huge film noir encyclopedia by film historian John Grant. I asked for it on purpose, because I had a ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

What did I say about noir in Hollywood in the 2010s?

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Remember what I said about new noir films in Hollywood? See my post on Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners here . I stumbled on a post at Har...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Heathers (1988)

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I finally saw this cult classic from the late eighties. Watched it from an old VHS, and over at Facebook a friend said that it's a film...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Denis Villeneuve: Prisoners

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I just saw this in a movie theater (a press screening) and I was totally overwhelmed! What a movie! The story about two missing kids and ...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Year of the Dragon

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I watched Michael Cimino's 1985 film from an old VHS cassette, afterwards I threw the cassette away. Why? Because I want to get rid of ...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Unused Finnish cover for Jason Starr's Fake ID

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Can't believe I haven't posted this earlier. Remember when I used to edit the noir paperback series for a Finnish publisher, with ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Joe Gores: Interface

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After reading for years praises for Joe Gores' 1974 novel Interface I decided finally to read it during the holidays. The book is a priv...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Friday's (or actually Saturday's) Forgotten Book: Victor Gischler: Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse

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Back in the days when I was planning and editing the short-lived paperback series of the Arktinen Banaani publishers one of the manuscripts ...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Merry XXXmas!

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Happy Yuletide with a Vargas girl! 
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Christa Faust: Choke Hold

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Some of you may remember that I had a hand in getting Christa Faust's admirable paperback original Money Shot in Finnish in the all-to...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: H. L. Lawrence: The Sparta Medallion

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H. L. Lawrence wrote only two books. The other one, called both  The Children of Light  (1960), is the better-known of the two, since Josep...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Charlie Williams: Graven Image

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Wanted to read something short and catchy and reverted to my Kindle that I've used all too rarely for these past months. Charlie William...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Paul Denver: The Deadly Chance (1973)

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Okay, I'm cheating here a bit. This is one of the books I'm including in my forth-coming book on British paperback crime fiction. I ...
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