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Book review: The World of Shaft
You might remember the news last year that New Line pictures had acquired the rights to do yet another film remake featuring the iconic character of John Shaft. If so, you may also remember the...
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Feminist vigilantes, vampires & the forgotten exploitation film career of Bob...
US director Bob Kelljan (right), with Timothy Carey in the 1977 Charlie’s Angels episode ‘Angels on Ice’, which Kelljan directed. On the weekend I unintentionally plunged head first into the lost...
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Book review: Paperbacks from Hell, the Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s...
I loved Grady Hendrix’s soon to be released book, Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction. From the opening, his discussion of John Christopher’s totally bizarre 1966...
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Sticking it to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular...
Sticking it to the Man: Revolution and Counter Culture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950-1980, is now available for pre-order here on Amazon. The book is due out in the second half of 2019 from PM...
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“There is no phone ringing, dammit!” Projection Booth episode 422 : The Omega...
I’m thrilled to tell you all that episode 422 of The Projection Booth podcast is live and features yours truly, joining co-hosts Mike White and Maurice Bursztynski, to talk about Boris Sagal’s 1971...
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Blowback: late 1960s and 1970s pulp and popular fiction about the Vietnam War
If you are still on the fence about purchasing a copy of my new book, Sticking it to the Man: Revolution and the Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980, the site CrimeReads is running...
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Parker on the screen #2: The Split (1968)
Several years ago on this site I referred to the 1968 film The Split as a Blaxsploitation style riff on Donald Westlake’s character, Parker. I have seen other reviewers make the same mistake, I...
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10 underappreciated American neo-noirs of the early 1970s
The domestic blowback of the Vietnam War. The sleaze and corruption of Watergate. The incipient rollback of the counterculture and many gains of the 1960s. Economic recession. The upheaval and...
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Dishing up Pulp Curry in a new way: why I am starting a Substack newsletter
After much thought I have decided that to experiment with moving the focus of my blogging from this site to a new Pulp Curry Substack newsletter. Why am I doing this? The first post on this website...
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