It used to be, Tom Hanks was the everyman who took us into one film after another, giving us a chance to experience the mundane to the fantastic. That role in many ways has been ceded to George Clooney, who displays in one film after another, a charismatic vulnerability that makes you root for him…
ALL PULP REVIEWS- Reviews by Ron Fortier GIRL GENIUS (Agatha Awakens) By Phil & Kaja Foglio A 319 pg graphic novel. Tor Books One of the things I bemoan as a professional reviewer is the lack of graphic novels I’m sent to look at. Note I did say, “look at.” The fun of such material…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock THE CATER STREET HANGMANby Anne PerryPublished by Ballantine Books2008 Tales set in the Victorian Era are odd creatures, particularly when one tries to identify whether or not they are Pulp. Using the thumbnail description for New Pulp that I do, most Victorian mysteries and even…
Whew, finally. After years of pleasant labor, I’ve gotten through all 182 original Doc Savage stories (counting THE RED SPIDER) and here we are with the very first novel, from the March 1933 issue. This started the saga of the pulp’s greatest adventure hero, which ran for sixteen years and (beginning in 1964) was eventually…
COMPLIMENTS OF THE BLACK STILETTO… A Review of Raymond Benson’s THE BLACK STILETTO by Andrew Salmon Raymond Benson’s The Black Stiletto (Oceanview Publishing) has a lot going for it but the sum is not quite equal to the parts that make up the novel. The set up is an intriguing one. Judy Talbot is an…
One brave warrior, touched by the gods, must overcome all odds to save mankind from a merciless and powerful tyrant when IMMORTALS comes to Blu-ray and DVD on March 6th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Directed by visionary filmmaker Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and written by Charles Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides, the…
Up and coming Pulp Authors Lee Houston Jr. and Nancy Hansen each one a staff writer and editor for Pro Se Productions, will be on local radio station WILI AM’s Wayne Norman morning show next Tuesday February 28th. They will be talking about their books and writing, and all sorts of things pertaining to New…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT- Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock WHAT IT WAS George Pelecanos Little, Brown and Company There are a few tricks to building a character that can maintain and entertain the full length of a novel. Those and a few other skills come into play when developing a lead that will…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp By Tommy Hancock POCKET 47 By Jude Hardin OceanView Publishing One of the best liked, most lampooned, often replicated, sometimes screwed up, extremely action packed, twisty and turny sub-genres of Pulp is the Private Eye tale. Everything from Hard Boiled to Cozy to Armchair to Science Fiction to…
PRESS RELEASE TOUCHED BY DEATH Airship 27 Productions announces the release a brand new fantasy novel by noted comic book writer, R.A. Jones; “Deathwalker.” Jones is best remembered for his early work for Malibu Comics where he created the adult action series, “Scimitar” along with artist Rob Davis. Now he turns his imagination to a…
Alfred Hitchcock is today best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to Universal and Warner Bros. steady stream of restored re-releases on Blu-ray but recently, 20th Century Home Entertainment reminded us that the master director wasn’t exactly idle in the years before. A trio of his 1940s works – Notorious, Spellbound,…
February 8, 2012 (Fullerton, CA) – REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST, the second novel by author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden, charted as high as #70 in the Hardboiled Detective Fiction list for Amazon UK on the day it was released. It remained in the top 100 for several hours. In the novel, a vigilante stalks…
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