Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Shellarama

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I stumbled on this Shell-produced documentary almost by accident: I've been preparing a book that collects the writings of the Turku-bas...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Suburbia, by Penelope Spheeris

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I don't recall anymore when or where I first heard of Penelope Spheeris's film Suburbia (1983). It must've been an old Finnis...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The French Connection (1971)

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I don't think anyone with sane mind would be able to say that William Friedkin's The French Connection is an overlooked movie. It...
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Andy Straka: A Witness Above

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I'd never heard about Andy Straka before, but I snatched his PI novel A Witness Above from the Brash Books newsletter, when it was fre...
Monday, January 23, 2017

New collection of one-word poems out

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As some of may remember, I have some interest in experimental poetry. I've done a collection of e-mail spam poetry that is still availab...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Teuvo Tulio, Finland's mad genius

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Here's a new article on Finnish film-maker Teuvo Tulio on the AV Club's site. Short quote: "In the pantheon of unclassifiable f...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Dan Simmons: Summer of Night

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I was going to do this as a part of the Friday's Forgotten Book series, but then I realized it's not Friday, it's Tuesday, and I...
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Friday's Forgotten Book: John Dinan: Sports in the Pulp Magazines

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As I wrote in my earlier post, I have a new book out. It's a collection of articles and essays on different kinds of genre and pulp fict...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

New books from my publishing house

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As you may well remember, I founded a publishing house a couple months ago. A new batch of books just arrived, alas somewhat too late for ...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Jim Hosking: The Greasy Strangler

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The Greasy Strangler , the first feature film by Jim Hosking , is something else entirely: it's a horror-comedy about a serial killer, b...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Starcrash

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You've seen Plan 9 from Outer Space ? You thought it was the worst movie of all time? You ain't seen half of it, there are films tha...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Donald Trump

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I haven't been blogging and I realized why that was. Even though Pulpetti has for years mainly focused on crime fiction in its many form...
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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...