Category: Reviews

There’s a school of thought that every new crime novel needs to hit the ground running. You need a gun on page 1, a shot on page 2, and a body on page 3. I don’t subscribe to …

I finally saw Terry Gilliams Brazil the other day, only 20-odd years after it came out. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while - as evidence, I’m still thinking about it three days later.

Brazil tells the …

I was really looking forward to The Driver, by all accounts a tense little crime drama from 1978. The Continental Op and the Nameless Detective are, of course, famous for never being named, but this film one-ups them: nobody gets …

I finally finished up Damn Near Dead, an anthology of geezer noir featuring writers such as Victor Gischler, Sean Doolittle, and Megan Abbott. It’s the brainchild of editor Duane Swierczynski and publisher David Thompson, and yes, alcohol was involved.

The …

After seeing some of the enthusiastic reviews around the web, I finally kicked Kiss Kiss Bang Bang up to the top of my Netflix queue. The verdict: one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen in a long time. …