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Another prize in this issue of Noir City Sentinel is Vince Keenan's piece on the films that Glen Ford and Rita Hayworth made together. V...

I've been pushing Noir City Sentinel (just log on to Film Noir Foundation and contribute to the cause and it'll be yours). There are...

Nellie McKay: Wikipedia: "Her music has showcased different genres, from jazz to rap and disco to funk. Her eclectic style and sharp ly...

I've never understood why most serious film critics think that Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is lesser Cary Grant-Myrna Loy-Melvi...

Carol and my daughter-in-law Mitsue are in Japan for ten days meeting up with our oldest granddaughter Shannon who is studying there. Since ...

Ed here: This is from The Torontoist from Nov 20, link provided by The Wrap) Be great to see what King and David Cronenberg could come up wi...

Forgotten Books: A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson In the course of a year I usually read twenty or twenty five novels that impress me...

Tonight Duane Swierczynski on Secret Dead Blog quotes from a New Yorker series from the 1930s called Legends of The Underwood. The man profi...

I'll state my prejudices up front: Alessandra Stanley, columnist for the New York Times is one of the dimmest and most pretentious cultu...

I've mentioned The Film Noir Foundation before. The estimable Eddie Muller founded it and continues to present noir in all its aspects a...

Over on Davey Crockett's Almanac http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com/ writer Evan Lewis reviews the Lester Dent novel Dead At The...

Ed here: The Harlequin folks have announced that they're going into big time into self-publishing. While a glance at various websites se...

Lee Goldberg has been admirably exposing the self-publishing racket for several years now. When somebody asks me about publishing a book him...

From Barb and Al Collins: Book Signing: Mystery Cat Books, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2 - 4 pm Barb and I are signing at Mystery Cat Books this Satur...

Last night we watched a fierce little B+ movie called City That Never Sleeps (1953). This was one of the films Herbert Yates hoped would con...

For us Saturday nights are the dead zone for watching TV. We usually watch something On Demand because cable has zip. I was doing my usual p...

Ray Bradbury's first collection, published in 1947 by Arkham House, contained so many memorable and lasting stories it has become legend...

I've been laughing at these two for fifty years Shtick With a Thousand Lives By ARI KARPEL Published: November 12, 2009 MEL BROOKS and ...

My buddy Vince Keenan was nice enough to send me a link to the following Noah Forrest review of Spike Lee's The 25th Hour which was eith...

I mean no disrespect when I say that I imagine Graham Greene conceived of Loser Takes All (one of his self-described "entertainments...