“Penny For Your Thoughts, Or A Razor” by Tia Ja’nae
FICTION: “Doubt makes them keep their awkward greetings to themselves. That suits me just fine. I ain’t out here looking for friends….”
Read More “Penny For Your Thoughts, Or A Razor” by Tia Ja’nae“Resistance to Conformity: Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith” by Melanie Marotta
FILM REVIEW: “Vitija’s documentary humanizes Highsmith: she does not come across as various writers and theorists have characterized her as, namely odd or antisocial.”
Read More “Resistance to Conformity: Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith” by Melanie Marotta“Jane Doe #11-12” by Don Thompson
POETRY: “Not all anonymity is equal.”
Read More “Jane Doe #11-12” by Don Thompson“Lawrence Tierney: Poverty Row” by Burt Kearns
BIOGRAPHY: “Lawrence Tierney was at loose ends when he learned about the Dillinger picture. Caught in the middle of RKO’s indecision and rejection elsewhere, living in a furnished room with little money, he was considering a way out….”
Read More “Lawrence Tierney: Poverty Row” by Burt Kearns“No Escape: Three Noir Executions” by Matthew Sorrento
PROSE POEM: “They live on to die, forever….”
Read More “No Escape: Three Noir Executions” by Matthew Sorrento“Knowing You’re Good: Joe R. Lansdale on Elmore Leonard” by Andrew J. Rausch
INTERVIEW: “[Leonard] always approached what he did with class. He believed in what he did. He knew he was good, and you have to know you’re good. That’s not the same thing as being immodest. But you don’t jump out of a plane if you’ve never packed a parachute….”
Read More “Knowing You’re Good: Joe R. Lansdale on Elmore Leonard” by Andrew J. Rausch“Zocco Chico” by Kurt McGill
FLASH FICTION: “A soft scraping sound…crepe soles brushing across the threshold…a silhouette appeared in the doorway. A glint of light reflected off blue steel in the hand hanging down by his side….”
Read More “Zocco Chico” by Kurt McGill“Bring Me the Dead of Jerry Garcia” by Mark Mellon
FICTION: “Manhood and honor cast aside like the useless impediments they were….”
Read More “Bring Me the Dead of Jerry Garcia” by Mark Mellon“Back to Troubled Grounds: The Two Jakes” By Anees Aref
“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 ArefPreview: “Fernando Ayala’s The Bitter Stems (1956)” by Jeremy Carr
At Film International, Jeremy Carr reviews Fernando Ayala’s The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos, 1956) from Flicker Alley: The imagery is not only its most strikingly noirish attribute, but it’s among the more dazzling of any film, of any genre.
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