movies
TCM Thrillers (May 10-16)

This week: * Monday—Take a heavy dose of Southern Gothic courtesy of William Faulkner. ...

movies
TCM Thrillers (May 3 – 9)

This week: * Monday—Cherchez la femme. * Tuesday—John Ford defines the Old West. *...

books
Michael Graham’s Mother Is a Domestic Terrorist

That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom: Team Obama's Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio American...

movies
TCM Thrillers (April 26 – May 2)

This week: * Monday—The bicycle thief falls into the snake pit on the road to Zanzibar. ...

movies
TCM Thrillers (April 19 – 25)

This week: * Monday—Edward G. has a nice deal on luggage. * Tuesday—Enjoy Harold Lloyd...

television
‘Criminal Minds’ Episode Borders on Contemptible

Last Wednesday's installment of Criminal Minds, "A Right of Passage," is a perfect example...

movies
TCM Thrillers (April 12 – 18)

This week: * Monday and Tuesday—Can you sing and dance? Evidently Hollywood was once fil...

movies
TCM Thrillers (April 5 – 11)

This week: * Monday—A noir Western ... who knew? * Tuesday—Four pre-Code crime dramas....

movies
TCM Thrillers (March 29th – April 4th)

This week: * Monday—Buster Keaton becomes a ... detective? * Tuesday—A rare example of...

movies
TCM Thrillers (March 22 – 28)

This week: * Monday—Court-martialed! * Tuesday—A stolen gun! * Wednesday—Extraterres...

uncategorized
TCM Thrillers (March 15 – 21)

This week: * Monday—Stone walls do not a prison make. * Tuesday—One should never overl...

movies
TCM Thrillers (March 8 – 14)

This week: * Monday—Storm and stress in La Bella Roma. * Tuesday—They say confession i...

movies
TCM Thrillers (March 1 – 7)

This week: * Monday—Brando is all at sea. * Tuesday—Sydney Greenstreet likes to talk t...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 22 – 28)

This week: * Monday—Cary Grant doesn't think imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

prose-fiction
Yevgeny Who?

   Jeff Riggenbach, at the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, has a podcast about a...

science-fiction
The Hound of Altair 4

FORBIDDEN PLANET Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1956. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen,...

science-fiction
Giant Bugs vs. The Long Arm of the Law

THEM! Warner Brothers, 1954. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onsl...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 15 – 21)

This week: * Monday—A film noir musical? * Tuesday—Bogie battles HUAC in absentia. * T...

books
Q & A with Douglas Greene of C & L

Douglas Greene, übereditor and biographer, runs that fine publishing house known as Cripp...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 8 – 14)

This week: * Monday—Gregory Peck gets beached, Burt Lancaster gets benched. * Tuesday�...

uncategorized
Satirical Mysteries from James Powell

A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Ganelon or Another by James Powell Crippen & Land...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 1 – 7)

This week: * Monday—Ingrid Bergman plots revenge—say it ain't so. * Tuesday—Alec Gui...

books
Private Eye Fiction by S. J. Rozan

A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events by S. J. Rozan Crippen & Landru Publi...

movies
TCM Thrillers (January 25 – 31)

This week: * Monday—Alec Guinness kills 'em with kindness. * Tuesday—Treachery in Sto...

books
Feminist Thrillers by Vera Caspary

The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary (1899 - 1987) Edited by ...

movies
TCM Thrillers (January 18 – 24)

This week: * Monday—Valentino feels the heat. * Tuesday—William Holden goes for a swi...

books
Radio Days Thrillers from Crippen & Landru

The Casebook of Gregory Hood Radio plays by Anthony Boucher (1911 - 68) and Denis Green (...

movies
TCM Thrillers (January 11 – 17)

This week: * Monday—Rod Taylor is bad, then he's good. * Tuesday—A dead man refuses t...

uncategorized
TCM Thrillers (January 4 – 10)

  This week: * Monday—William Holden finds it tough playing a violin with boxing glove...

uncategorized
TCM Thrillers (December 28 – January 3)

This week: * Monday—A silent Sherlock battles a silent Moriarty, silently. * Tuesday�...

mysteries
Three Christmas Mysteries by a Master

The late Edward D. Hoch (1930 - 2008) holds the record for the most published mystery sh...

books
Pronzini Is Astute, Amusing Critic

Gun in Cheek: A Study of Alternative Crime Fiction (1982) by Bill Pronzini Hardcover: Co...

uncategorized
TCM Thrillers (December 21 – 27)

This week: * Tuesday—Barbara Stanwyck can't heal herself. * Wednesday and Thursday—B...