“Dead Man’s Wire: The Justice of the Spectacle” by Efe Teksoy
REVIEW: “The silence, however, is theirs alone — something neither the camera nor the system could ever claim….”
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“The Endearing and the Enduring: On The Companion Guide to The Godfather Trilogy” by William Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “An incisive look at the films through the lens of a scholar, critic, and fan….”
Read More “The Endearing and the Enduring: On The Companion Guide to The Godfather Trilogy” by William Blick“On the Mean Streets of Tulsa: FX’s The Lowdown” by Anees Aref
REVIEW: “Lee Raybon calls himself a “truth storian” [p]layed by Ethan Hawke as a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe….”
Read More “On the Mean Streets of Tulsa: FX’s The Lowdown” by Anees Aref“Guts, Grit, and Glorious Pulp: Edward S. Aarons’ Death in a Lighthouse and Murder Money” by William Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “Aarons’ work is full of many skillful riffs as seen in this pair of rollicking page-burners….”
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ARTICLE PREVIEW: “The last word on this niche genre, with a dense amount of information….”
Read More Preview: “Home Invasion Horrors” by William BlickPreview: “from Build My Gallows High to Out of the Past” by Jeremy Carr
ARTICLE PREVIEW: “If there is a lesson to be learned from noir stories, be they in print or filmed, it is that the past never stays in the past for long, and the inevitably ill-fated future closes in faster than expected…..”
Read More Preview: “from Build My Gallows High to Out of the Past” by Jeremy Carr“Vivid Evocations and Deadly Revelations: Manhattan Death Ballad” by WIlliam Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “Jakubowski in the end absolutely triumphs with his rhapsodic prose….”
Read More “Vivid Evocations and Deadly Revelations: Manhattan Death Ballad” by WIlliam Blick“Keeping the Flame Alive: Dan Bronson’s Shout at the Devil” by WIlliam Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “A return to these origins is refreshing as compared to many of the contributions to the current state of the crime novel….”
Read More “Keeping the Flame Alive: Dan Bronson’s Shout at the Devil” by WIlliam Blick“Shadows in the Sunlight: On the Noir Western” by Anees Aref
REVIEW ESSAY: “Often described as ‘psychological westerns,’ these films eschewed the conventional heroes of the old west for more complicated protagonists, flawed and motivated by darker impulses….”
Read More “Shadows in the Sunlight: On the Noir Western” by Anees Aref“Some Mismanaged Business: Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business” by Brian Greene
GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: “David and his collaborators deserve credit for taking some detours and tangents that make their book distinctive…. But those pieces aren’t enough to overcome some fatal flaws….”
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Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon 