Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Dennis Hauck: Too Late (2016)

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Dennis Hauck's first feature-length film is Too Late that premiered earlier this year. It's an exceptional film, filmed on 35 mm fi...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: LBJ: The Early Years (1987)

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I can't resist buying stuff like this I find on thrift stores and other places: cheap VHS cassettes with movies that probably have never...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Ed Gorman

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Just noticed that Ed Gorman passed away. It's a damn shame, I'm sure there were more books in him. His work as a novelist, short sto...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

On Dylan

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As everyone by now knows, Bob Dylan got the Nobel prize for literature earlier today. Now, I've never really understood why people like ...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Roman Polanski: Knife in the Water

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The renowned Polish director's first feature-length film was this small-scale film - only three actors - that reflects his familiar t...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

I just founded a publishing company

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Well, not exactly. I just didn't do it, just like that, it was a long and at times frustrating process. But now it's up, after plann...
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Monday, September 05, 2016

Joe R. Lansdale binge

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I've been reading lots of Joe Lansdale lately, since I wrote an article on him and his works for the magazine of the Finnish Whodunit So...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Donald Westlake's James Bond treatment surfaces as a novel

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Hard Case Crime has dug up a James Bond novel Donald Westlake wrote as a treatment several years ago. It looks great. I'm not intereste...
Friday, July 29, 2016

The bibliography of science fiction pornography released

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The title says it all.  This  is done very well and exhaustively, it seems, by Kenneth R. Johnson, published via Phil Stephensen-Payne's...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Paul DiFilippo on the VanderMeers' new massive anthology

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Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have compiled a massive anthology The Big Book of Science Fiction, which indeed looks big. Paul DiFilippo dissects i...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Friday's Forgotten Book: It Rhymes with Lust

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Possibly a first edition, based on the defects on the cover. One of the stablemates in any genre is to discuss what was the first artifa...
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Monday, May 30, 2016

Arthur Lyons: The Dead Are Discreet

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Arthur Lyons is one of those now forgotten private eye writers who brought some seriousness to the genre, following in the footsteps of Chan...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Some books I read: Michael Connelly, Mack Bolan, David Markson, Patrick Modiano, Lee Goldberg et al.

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After completing my book on Finnish Westerns, I decided to take a little break and read anything I just wanted to read, not anything I had t...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Swedish paperback cover for Edward Aarons

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I found this book in a trash bin and decided I should at least salvage its illustrated cover. The book, originally Assignment - Treason i...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Battle Beyond the Stars

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Science fiction can be pretty stupid at times, especially olded science fiction, the stuff with zap guns and space ships. But it can also be...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Sarah Weinman on Benjamin Black, Chandler and other literary brands

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Just a sidenote: t his article by Sarah Weinman is already two years old, but it caught my attention only just now, when I noticed Weinman ...
Friday, April 22, 2016

My book on Finnish Westerns

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Sorry for the absence, folks. I've been working my ass off and writing my book on Finnish Westerns, but it's finally ready and being...
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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...