SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Hitchcock slows down markedly after PSYCHO — at first because he spent a long time publicizing his monster hit, and then because he developed MARNIE for Grace Kelly, who proved to be unavailable for a year, and then because THE BIRDS was a more elaborate and technically complicated production than anything Hitch had attempted before. [...]
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
We have reviews of some movies listed below. If you want to locate a movie download site do a search online. "DVD Rental Movies" or "Music Services" might get you a good result, if they don't, try "Online Music Download Services".
G D Townshende (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Although Follett is not a writer of science fiction or fantasy, I like his writing, nonetheless. I've known of his web site for a couple of years now, but I was surprised to learn earlier today that I had not linked to it. I thought I had. Today, I've rectified that.For quick access, so that you don't have to scroll down the left column to find them, here are the links I've added to this blog:
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I was glad to see that two of Patti Abbott's Forgotten Books today were John D. MacDonalds. Bill Cameron reviewed The Last One Left while Randy Johnson discussed Wine of The Dreamers. We've been talking about how quickly writers fade after their deaths. I still can't believe how John D. went from best seller and exemplar of the commercial American story to near obscurity (not to mention ignominy) in...
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Lawrence Block is most recently the author of Step by Step. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ruminating upon a life of exquisite indolence. Author: Lawrence Block Subjects Discussed: Step by Step as an anti-memoir, exploring childhood experience in print, randomness and finding connections, writing with a greater degree of freedom, Random Walk, concerns about a limited audience, earlier attempts [...]
The Art of Fiction (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
I've read two debut novels this week; however one of those was Richard Yates' "Revolutionary Road", written before I was born. It's a very readable novel, and having recently written a novella about a disintegrating marriage , it was fascinating to read a successful novel on the same subject, but in a different age, and from a different place. I'm not sure that its a "classic",...
The Internet Business Blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
By Leo Delgado Movie reviews follow this paragraph. You can find a lot of information on movie downloads sites if you do a good search. There are a lot of different phrases you can use, try "DVD Movies Downloads", "Illegal Movie Downloads", or "Film Online". Lightning the White Stallion: Incredibly weak family fare with Rooney a prosperous guy whose racehorse is stolen....
Stuff Queer People Need To Know (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
I have been doing a lot of fact checking at work, and in the process I have run across two presumed lesbians of historical note: Lizzie Borden and Louisa May Alcott. Borden was acquitted of the 1892 murder of her penny-pinching father and disagreeable stepmother. By all accounts, the pair was unpleasant at best, and Borden [...]
Daddy's Roses (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had forgotten how much I enjoy Ed McBain's dialog. It has been awhile since I read one of his mysteries. I also just discovered that he also writes under the name of Evan Hunter. View all my reviews > >
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Finishing off last month with a review of 'Manhunter' as part of Radiator Heaven's Michael Mann week has put me in the mood for a crime flick fest. Until about a decade ago, Nottingham's Broadway cinema used to run the Shots in the Dark festival. This was a fortnight of crime-based genre films, from b&w classics to UK premieres. Most were introduced by guest speakers. Seminars and masterclasses...
anniemiz (Free subscription) | 19/05/2009
Seeing as I work at a library, I often come across authors I've never read before or maybe even never heard of before. The latter's not all that surprising since, as much as I love to read, I'm not very...
Fine Wine (Free subscription) | 13/03/2009
For the majority of cinema goers, the most famous bottle of wine in the history of cinema is without doubt that of a Pommard used in the film Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock. The bottle, discovered by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, has had the wine drained away to be replaced by powdered uranium, giving the [...]
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Hip-hop and cops form two extremes of society, as seen in HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED, the debut novel from Marc Blatte, featuring cop Salvatore Messina — aka Black Sallie Blue Eyes, so termed by some local mob guys for the cold blue eyes and the ice water in his veins. Sal has a tough case [...]
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
McBain, writing under that name and Evan Hunter (which he changed his name to in 1952, from Salvatore Lombino), is the only writer by whom I have read over a hundred books, and that is likely to remain true for a long time, maybe permanently. And I’ve not read any by five of his other [...]
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
Akashic’s MANHATTAN NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS is a history lesson for crime readers, as editor Lawrence Block picks a cavalcade of writers who went on to influence countless others. In the introduction, he explains the reasons behind some of his choices, including a controversial pick of a certain poem, especially since that writer wrote some [...]
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