Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Mikey and Nicky (1976)

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I'd read of this little gem of a crime film a long time ago, but always failed to see it. I once had the Finnish VHS published in 1989...
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Monday, March 07, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Jesuit Joe (1991)

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I'd seen this ultra-rare French northern film back in the day, in 1992 actually, and I saw it twice, even though it made only a short ro...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Possibly British comic needs ID

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Friend was asking whether anyone knows the artist behind this possibly British series of comics. It was published in Finnish in the 1950s as...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

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I just saw this little thriller - if that's what you could call it - the other day and decided to blog about it. The film received with...
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Monday, February 08, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Luis Buñuel: The Young One

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(I'm blogging again! I really don't have time for this, but I just can't let this one go.) Surrealist film-maker Luis Buñuel h...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Happy Cthristmas!

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I haven't been blogging much lately, but it's only due to two facts: I've been swamped with work and family matters (you might r...
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Friday, December 04, 2015

Erik Munsterhjelm: A Dog Named Wolf

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Anyone read the book? It's a book published in English in 1972 as A Tale of Wolves, Dogs and Trappers in the Canadian Wilds, and as A Do...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Morons from Outer Space (1985)

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Some time ago I watched a virtually unknown movie by Mike Hodges, the director of such masterpieces as Get Carter and Flash Gordon . Now I ...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Gil Brewer in Wikipedia, at long last!

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Remember when I noted that Gil Brewer didn't have a Wikipedia article to his name? Now he does. (I didn't do, though I set out to d...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Science fiction westerns

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I'm editing a collection of my writings on genre and pulp literature. Included is an essay on horror and sci-fi western hybrids. I'd...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Bibliographical problem: Hugh B. Cave in Finnish

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I just posted a short bibliography of the short stories by Hugh B. Cave that were translated and published in Finnish in my bibliographical ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Stack of Robert E. Howards

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I bought these nice items couple weeks ago. You can easily guess we don't usually have this stuff here in Finland. And what's nice i...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Charles Beckman (1920-2015)

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I just heard from James Reasoner that Charles Beckman died two weeks ago. He was probably the last real pulp magazine writer alive - I can...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Interview on Women Crime Writers

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Here's Cullen Callagher's nice interview with Sarah Weinman on her 2-volume anthology Women Crime Writers. Check it out, it's a ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Friday's Forgotten Book: Jack MacLane: Goodnight, Moom

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I was lucky to find this almost ancient paperback from a junkyard sale at a comics book store here in Turku. Goodnight, Moom, published orig...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Jason Starr: Savage Lane

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As I've said a hundred times before, Jason Starr is one of my all-time favourite writers: nasty, twisted, funny, fluent. He's very r...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Gil Brewer: The Red Scarf

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A Crest reprint Gil Brewer was one of the best crime and noir paperbackers of the fifties and early sixties. I've read several of hi...
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Friday, October 02, 2015

Friday's Forgotten Book: Old issues of Paperback Parade

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Paperback Parade is (was?) a periodical magazine devoted to the study of old paperbacks and the culture surrounding them. It is (or was) ...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Swedish paperback covers

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I found some Swedish paperbacks and other books in our house's trash bin. Took them out, but decided that I had no use for them, so toss...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Black Rainbow (1989)

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I watched this unknown gem from a VHS cassette I bought from a thrift store. The quality of the cassette was better than could be expecte...
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