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Blue Ruin (2013)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 30, 2019
US, France / 90 minutes / color / filmscience, Neighborhood Watch, Lab of Madness, Paradise City, memento, RADiUS-TWC Dir & Scr & Cine: Jeremy Saulnier Pr: Anish Savjani, Richard Peete, Vincent Savino Cast: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb, David W. Thompson read more
book: Patrick Butler for the Defence (1956) by John Dickson Carr
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 30, 2019
I was reading one of Curtis Evans’s excellently illuminating essays at The Passing Tramp the other day and noticed that he dismissed Patrick Butler for the Defence as among Carr’s relatively few stinkers: Carr returned to the present with regrettable results. He brings back the odious P read more
book: Stinker from Space (1988) by Pamela F. Service
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 28, 2019
Yes, it was of course the title that grabbed me. I’ve read and enjoyed some of Service’s work before — although long enough ago that I now can’t remember any details — but when I recently saw this one for sale I simply had to have it. The story’s pretty simple. T read more
book: Easter Island (2003) by Jennifer Vanderbes
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 27, 2019
A beautifully written and genuinely fascinating novel that loosely interweaves two stories, set in different time periods, of women scientists coming to Easter Island, one of the most remote spots on the planet, and there managing to overcome the sexist prejudices of their day and establish themsel read more
Blackhat (2015)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 27, 2019
US / 133 minutes / color / Legendary, Forward Pass, Universal Dir: Michael Mann Pr: Thomas Tull, Michael Mann, Jon Jashni Scr: Morgan Davis Foehl Cine: Stuart Dryburgh Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola Davis, Ritchie Coster, Holt McCallany, John Ortiz, Yorick van Wageningen, Wang Leehom, Christ read more
book: Crimson Lake (2017) by Candice Fox
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 24, 2019
Less than a year ago, Sydney cop Ted Conkaffey was, because of a mass of circumstantial evidence, convicted in the court of public opinion of the brutal rape of a thirteen-year-old, even though the legal case against him collapsed for lack of any clear indication of his guilt. Hoping to try to buil read more
Her Infidelity (2015 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 23, 2019
Canada / 88 minutes / color / Johnson Production Group, Drie Productions, Lifetime Dir: Christie Will Pr: Oliver De Caigny Scr: Christie Will, Alan Donahue Cine: Anthony Metchie Cast: Rachel Hunter, Clayton Chitty, Miranda Frigon, Carter Evancic, Chelan Simmons, Lane Edwards, Loretta Walsh, Christin read more
book: You Should Have Left (2016; trans 2017 Ross Benjamin) by Daniel Kehlmann
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 23, 2019
A screenwriter rents a house somewhere on the edge of the Alps so that his actress wife and their four-year-old daughter can have something of a vacation while he gets his teeth into his latest screenplay — the sequel to his last movie, a phenomenally successful piece of fluff called Besties. read more
book: An Unwanted Guest (2018) by Shari Lapena
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 21, 2019
I recently read Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, about a group of privileged guests snowed in on a Scottish estate when murder strikes, and had (genuinely) mixed feelings about it: a lot that I liked but also quite a lot about which I was dubious. Someone (I’ve no idea who) suggested tha read more
Pali Road (2015)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 20, 2019
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US, China / 95 minutes / color / Crimson Forest, Cuixing, China Film Assist, Dadi, Island Dir: Jonathan Lim Pr: Daxing Chang, Cathy Lee, Kenneth Burke, Jonathan Lim Scr: Doc Pedrolie, Victoria Arch Cine: Quyen Tran Cast: Michelle Chen, Jackson Rathbone, Sung Kang, Henry Ian Cu read more
book: Pursuit (2019) by Joyce Carol Oates
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 19, 2019
The family-less, agnostic Abby marries Willem despite his deeply Christian family and his own religiosity. The morning after the wedding, before the marriage has even been consummated, Abby steps under a bus on her way to work. Was is it an attempted suicide or an accident brought about by her dist read more
book: The Big Bow Mystery (1891) by Israel Zangwill
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 19, 2019
Published initially as a newspaper serial in 1891, The Big Bow Mystery is generally regarded as the first locked-room mystery novel. (It’s retitled in some editions The Perfect Crime to match the title of the 1928 movie based on the book, the first screen adaptation of three.) No one can beli read more
book: Van Gogh’s Bad Café (1997) by Frederic Tuten
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 16, 2019
An odd little book that somehow I found myself liking while at the same time not enjoying it very much at all. One day at the end of the twentieth century, while rambling in Alphabet City, NYC, our narrator meets a mysterious young Frenchwoman, dressed in archaic garb, who steps out of a crevice in read more
Eddie’s Place (1955 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 16, 2019
US / 25 minutes / bw / Four Star Productions, CBS Dir & Pr: Roy Kellino Scr: Willard Wiener, Herbert A. Spiro Story: A.E. Houghton Jr (i.e., Buck Houghton) Cine: George E. Diskant Cast: Ida Lupino, William Talman, Kathryn Card, Louis Jean Heydt, Glen Gordon. This was episode #24 of the third se read more
book: The Hunting Party (2019) by Lucy Foley
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 14, 2019
A bunch of old Oxford University friends get together every year for a New Year’s holiday, and this time they’ve come to a remote Scottish estate for the celebrations. However, early on New Year’s Day one of them goes missing, and the next day the murdered corpse is found by the e read more
Johnny Cool (1963)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 12, 2019
US / 104 minutes / bw / Chrislaw, United Artists Dir & Pr: William Asher Scr: Joseph Landon Story: The Kingdom of Johnny Cool (1959) by John McPartland Cine: Sam Leavitt Cast: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, Brad Dexter, Wanda Hendrix, Hank Henry, Ma read more
book: Father Panic’s Opera Macabre (2000) by Thomas Tessier
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 11, 2019
Historical novelist Neil is motoring around Italy when his car breaks down near a big old mansion occupied by a strange group of old people, a forceful priest and a red-hot babe, Marisa. Marisa offers to put him up for the night while the servants do something about his car. Cue a bonkathon. A few read more
book: Caught (2010) by Harlan Coben
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 11, 2019
We were away at a science fiction convention this past weekend, so everything’s a bit sleepy and tentative around Noirish Towers today. This will be just a quick note . . . TV investigative journalist Wendy Tynes ensnares social worker Dan Mercer in a sting operation, the latest triumph of he read more
Star (2001)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 9, 2019
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US / 9 minutes / color / Anonymous Content, BMW Films Dir: Guy Ritchie Pr: Aristides McGarry, Robyn Boardman Scr: Guy Ritchie, Joe Sweet Concept: Fallon Cine: Chris Soos Cast: Clive Owen, Michael Beattie, Toru Tanaka Jr., Madonna, DTeflon, Troy Aguayo, Christie McNew, Woon Young Pa read more
book: Inkheart (2003; trans 2003 Anthea Bell) by Cornelia Funke
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 7, 2019
Twelve-year-old bibliophile Meggie’s dad Mo, a craft bookbinder, mysteriously refuses ever to read aloud to her. Fairly early on in Inkheart she discovers that this is because, nine years ago when she was just three, Mo was reading aloud to Meggie and her mom, Teresa, when he accidentally bro read more