“No stupid moves: Frank Oz’s The Score” By Anees Aref
REVIEW ESSAY: “Thieves should respect their elders, too.”
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REVIEW ESSAY: “Thieves should respect their elders, too.”
Read More “No stupid moves: Frank Oz’s The Score” By Anees ArefBOOK REVIEW: “Demonstrates a degree of mastery of plot, character, and structure as the mystery is solved with all twists and turns readers have come to expect from the genre….”
Read More Jonathan Latimer, Skilled Artisan of the Crime Genre: Headed for a Hearse (1935)“You can’t forget the past…just as much as you can’t change it” –Jakes Gittes (Jack Nicholson) in The Two Jakes The Two Jakes almost never happened. The sequel to the legendary 1974 film Chinatown (directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne) was a project doomed from the start, with creative clashes behind the […]
Read More “Back to Troubled Grounds: The Two Jakes” By Anees ArefNONFICTION: “As the renown imprint presents the last unpublished novel by the author, it delivers one of his most unique and rewarding….”
Read More “Hard Case Crime, April 2022: It’s Westlake!” by Matthew SorrentoREVIEW: “The intricately plotted tale of betrayals, informants, and outbreaks of violence is presented in a format familiar to classical theatre but not as common in contemporary filmmaking. The scope of the onscreen narrative is restricted to the tailor shop, the time span is very limited, and the action of the film, while complex, focuses on the importance of some elusive evidence of a ‘rat’ in the Boyle gang.”
Read More “Graham Moore’s Unified and Inventive The Outfit” by Ken HallREVIEW ESSAY: “Pink Floyd were so cerebral. Dark, but in a post-apocalyptic-cum-dystopian sci-fi kind of way, not a crime story way. However, the anthology, edited by crime writer and memoirist T. Fox Dunham, makes a certain kind of twisted sense.”
Read More “Literary Mixtape: Coming Through in Waves – Crime Fiction Inspired by Pink Floyd” by John TalbirdNONFICTION: “On a few surprising releases from the noir fiction mainstay.”
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