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Parker and the art of hard-boiled crime writing
December 31 2010 marks the second anniversary of the death at age 75 of one of the masters of hard-boiled crime writing, Donald Westlake. I’ve found myself thinking a lot about Westlake lately and his...
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Violent Saturday
Over the weekend I managed to catch a film I’d been keen to see for a while, Richard Fleischer’s Violent Saturday. Made in 1955, it focuses on a bank robbery in small southern US town. It’s not hard...
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Emperor of the North
A couple of months ago I stumbled across the existence of Melbourne-based independent movie distribution company, Bounty Films. The movie that introduced me to them was their release of the hard to...
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Prime Cut
Want to talk about a movie that broke the mould when it was made? Let’s talk about Prime Cut. Starring Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman and Sissy Spacek, this 1972 film is eighty-eight minutes of pulp...
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The Killers 1964 & 1946
The following is posted as part of Furious Cinema’s Scenes of the Crime Blog-a-Thon. It originally appeared in the Fall 2012 edition of Noir City. One short story, Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers,...
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LEE, an anthology of fiction inspired by Lee Marvin
I am a HUGE Lee Marvin fan. Survivor of the carnage of World War Two, drinker, larger than life character, enduring icon of masculine cinema, the star of some of my favourite films, including The Big...
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Orders open for LEE, a fiction anthology inspired by Lee Marvin
A heads up that you can now order LEE, Crime Factory’s anthology inspired by iconic American actor Lee Marvin, from our the site. There’s been a bit of buzz around the traps about LEE and at the risk...
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LEE, an anthology inspired by Lee Marvin, now available as e-book
Just a quick heads up to let you all know that Crime Factory Publication’s latest publication, LEE, an anthology of short fiction inspired by iconic US actor Lee Marvin is now available as an e-book...
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Warren Oates, Gloria Grahame & other subjects for fiction anthologies
The recent release of Crime Factory’s LEE, an anthology of crime fiction inspired by the life of iconic actor Lee Marvin, has got me thinking about who else would be a good subject for similar...
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Toshiro Mifune, Lee Marvin & Hell In the Pacific
If he was still alive, Legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune would have been 95 years old this week. He was born on April 1, 1920. I was idly looking on the Internet for images of the imposing...
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Lee Marvin: 10 essential films
The iconic American actor, Lee Marvin was born today, February 19, 1924. To celebrate the occasion, my latest piece for the British Film Institute looks at his 10 essential movies. You can check out...
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Thoughts on Point Blank at 50
Point Blank premiered in San Francisco on August 30 1967. Critically overlooked at the time, its launched John Boorman’s Hollywood directorial career, became a cult hit and has had an enduring...
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The heist always goes wrong, part 4: 10 more heist films you’ve never seen
To celebrate the re-release of my heist thriller, Gunshine State, by Down and Out books, it is time for another of my top 10 heist posts. This is my fourth post along the theme of ‘the heist always...
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Projection Booth podcast #546: Point Blank (1967)
It was a great pleasure to be able to perform co-hosting on the Projection Booth podcast for the second time in as many months, this time alongside my friend Jedidiah Ayres, on an episode about one of...
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Prime Cut at 50: looking back at possibly the strangest American crime film...
Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as it turns...
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