ReviewCri-Fi
Black Moon Rising (1986) (Blu-ray film review).
I’ve seen the 1986 film, ‘Black Moon Rising’, a couple times over the years. At the time, Linda Hamilton’s star was rising because…
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Cri-Fi
Crime Fiction
April 2019
ReviewScifi
Necropolis PD by Nathan Sumsion (book review).
The information that came with the review copy says of ‘Necropolis PD’: ‘It’s the debut novel of Nathan Sumsion, a game designer from…
January 2019
ReviewFantasy
Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts (Crimewave Short Story Collections) (e-book review).
Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts features fourteen stories from an assorted bunch of talented authors culled from the magazine ‘Crimewave’, which is put out by…
ReviewHorror
Occult Detective Quarterly Presents edited by John Linwood Grant & Dave Brzeski (book review).
Writing even a contemporary detective story at short length is difficult. It is not the setting of the scene that causes the problem…
ReviewBooks
Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash by Joe Street (book review).
For those who wonder what happens when I look through a catalogue, I do wonder when something unusual comes up is whether you…
December 2018
ReviewBooks
The Sentence Is Death (Detective Daniel Hawthorne book 2) by Anthony Horowitz (book review).
We are back to the marmite of narratives. You either love the fact that Anthony Horowitz places himself firmly at the centre of…
November 2018
ReviewCri-Fi
London After Midnight by Thomas Mann (book review).
For those who don’t know, the 1927 film ‘London After Midnight’ directed by Todd Browning isn’t available for viewing. The last copy in…
July 2018
ReviewBooks
The World Of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts And Figures Behind The World’s Greatest Detective by Martin Fido (book review).
‘The World Of Sherlock Holmes’, a production from the Sherlock Holmes Museum is written by Martin Fido and was first issued in 2015.…
May 2018
ReviewCri-Fi
Alfred Hitchcock El La Musique (CD review).
The one thing you can say about the musical scores of Alfred Hitchcock films is that if you’re familiar with the movies then…