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o/t: New e-book giveaway
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 14, 2018
***Just announced by See Sharp Press!
And I’d echo their comment about The Revelator, a weekly environmental e-newsletter published by the Center for Biological Diversity. Sharp and Pointed The Revelator newsletter, from the Center for Biological Diversity, will be giving away free e-book copi read more
snapshot: Gemini (2017)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 14, 2018
US / 93 minutes / color / Stage 6, Filmscience, Syncopated, Pastel, Rough House, Neon Dir & Scr: Aaron Katz Pr: Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy, Adele Romanski Cine: Andrew Reed Cast: Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Ricki Lake, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Par read more
book: Acts of Nature (2007) by Jonathon King
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 11, 2018
Ex-cop Max Freeman and his cop girlfriend Sherry Richards decide to go to a remote shack in the Florida Everglades to enjoy a few days’ R&R. Cut off from the outside world, little do they realize that a major hurricane is homing in on the area. In the aftermath of the storm, with Sherry s read more
book: Drink to Yesterday (1940) by Manning Coles
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 10, 2018
A while after we’d first moved into our current house, about twenty years ago, we discovered that what we’d assumed to be a bit of solid wall in the living room was a much-painted-over built-in storage chest, so to speak. Once we got the thing open it proved to be full of books, jammed read more
Black Butterfly (2017)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 10, 2018
Spain, US, Italy / 93 minutes / color / Grindstone, Ambi, Paradox, Elipsis [sic] Capital, Battleplan, Lionsgate Premiere Dir: Brian Goodman Pr: Silvio Muraglia, Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Alexandra Klim, Marc Frydman, Rod Lurie, Alberto Burgueño, Juan Antonio García Peredo Scr: Justin Stanley read more
book: Seduction (2005) by Catherine Gildiner
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 7, 2018
A novel that’s marked by a number of very visible failings but that I nonetheless enjoyed a very great deal. It’s the very early 1980s. Kate Fitzgerald, having served nine years to date for murdering her husband, is granted a TA (temporary absence) by the prison psychiatrist, Dr. Garbon read more
snapshot: Cop Car (2015)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 7, 2018
US / 88 minutes / color / Audax, Dark Arts, Park, End Cue, Expedition, Focus World Dir: Jon Watts Pr: Cody Ryder, Alicia Van Couvering, Sam Bisbee, Andrew Kortschak, Jon Watts Scr: Jon Watts, Christopher Ford Cine: Matthew J. Lloyd, Larkin Seiple Cast: Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellf read more
book: Junkyard Dogs (2010) by Craig Johnson
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 3, 2018
It’s winter and Sheriff Walt Longmire, head of law enforcement in a small Wyoming town, is tired of the ice and snow. His latest case starts when a couple from the local junkyard inadvertently tow their grandfather behind the family car across the ice for a couple of miles. (The old man doesn read more
Aus dem Nichts (2017)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 3, 2018
vt In the Fade Germany, France / 106 minutes / color / Match Factory, Bombero, Warner Bros., Macassar, Pathé, Dorje, Corazón, Canal+, Ciné+ Dir: Fatih Akin Pr: Nurhan Ôekerci-Porst, Fatih Akin, Herman Weigel, Ann-Kristin Homann Scr: Fatih Akin, Hark Bohm Cine: Rainer Klausmann Cast: Diane Kruger, read more
book: The Moon-Spinners (1962) by Mary Stewart
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 1, 2018
I read a few of Mary Stewart’s romantic suspensers back in the day (for some reason I was less entranced by her Arthurian series), but I’m pretty sure this wasn’t one of them. I did watch the 1964 movie, although all I can now remember of it is the windmill and (of course) Our read more
o/t: leisure reading during October
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 31, 2018
A reasonable haul of books read this month, one or two of them memorably good and none of them stinkers. The links are as usual to my Goodreads notes. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:
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book: Calling Mr. King (2011) by Ronald De Feo
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 31, 2018
You’ve all read the novel or seen the movie about the hitman who has a midlife crisis and wants to pack the job in and retire, only he knows that in his chosen profession the only retirement plan is the permanent one — right? Well, this is that novel, again. Or, more accurately, it̵ read more
snapshot: The Pigeon (1962 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 31, 2018
US / 50 minutes / bw / Hubbell Robinson, NBC Dir: Don Weis Pr: Boris D. Kaplan Scr: Rik Vollaerts, Raphael Hayes Story: Rik Vollaerts, based on characters created by Ed McBain Cine: John F. Warren Cast: Robert Lansing, Ron Harper, Norman Fell, Gregory Walcott, Peter Falk, Roxane Berard, Frank Sutton read more
book: The Night is a Time for Listening (1966) by Elliot West
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 29, 2018
West Berlin, not so long after the cessation of World War Two’s hostilities. US journalist Marco “Darsoss” Darsossakis is here because the one thing that keeps him living from day to day is the prospect of murdering Otto Vorst, the Nazi officer who gleefully waterboarded Darsoss&# read more
book: The Red Notebook (2014; trans 2015 Emily Boyce) by Antoine Laurain
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 27, 2018
It’s not often that I agree with anything the Daily Torygraph says, but the quote from that newspaper’s review on the front cover of The Red Notebook more or less says it all: “A gem.”[*] I couldn’t help thinking, as I read this short novel, that this is what I’d read more
Slander House (1938)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 27, 2018
US / 66 minutes / bw / Progressive Dir: Charles Lamont Pr: B.N. Judell Scr: Gertrude Orr, John W. Krafft Story: Scandal House (1933) by Madeline Woods Cine: M.A. Andersen Cast: Adrianne Ames (i.e., Adrienne Ames), Craig Reynolds, Esther Ralston, George Meeker, Pert Kelton, William Newell, Dorothy Va read more
book: The Watcher in the Wall (2016) by Owen Laukkanen
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 26, 2018
Sometimes all you want out of a thriller is a helluva good fast-reading dose of excitement, and that’s exactly what Owen Laukkanen’s The Watcher in the Wall sets out to do. And does. With lots of short chapters (141, to be precise), usually just a page or two long, in the James Patterso read more
book: If You Knew Her (2018) by Emily Elgar
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 26, 2018
Having been knocked down in a hit-and-run car accident on New Year’s Eve, Cassie Jensen arrives in a coma at an intensive care unit somewhere near Brighton in the south of England. One of the nurses on the ward, Alice Marlowe, takes a special interest in the new arrival, as does Frank, a midd read more
reblog: Raymond Chandler’s Secret Cameo
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 24, 2018
***A fascinating factoid (complete with relevant movie clip) from Kevin Burton Smith at the ever-informative New Thrilling Detective Web Site! The New Thrilling Detective Web Site Believe it or not, Raymond Chandler actually makes a cameo in the 1944 film, Double Indemnity. About sixteen minutes in, read more
snapshot: Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 24, 2018
US / 97 minutes / bw / Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, TCF Dir: Richard Fleischer Pr: Darryl F. Zanuck Scr: Jules Dassin, ghostwriting (because blacklisted) for Mark Canfield (i.e., Darryl F. Zanuck) Story: Drame dans un Miroir (1958) by Marcel Haedrich Cine: William Mellor Cast: Orson Welles, Juliett read more