One of the greats of the mystery genre, too little appreciated these days, is Ellery ...
How far have Hollywood romances fallen as a result of debacles such as How to Lose a G...
It's a storyline we celebrate every Oscar season: the uncompromising film director, locke...
As if we hadn't always known, even in these supposedly cynical times of rampant moral re...
One of the great achievements in European popular fiction during the twentieth century was...
I've just discovered that several (and possibly all) episodes of the great 1970s TV series...
This Christmas season (known to Christians as Advent) has brought the most Christmas progr...
In a year of unsettling cultural stories—from the Ray Rice domestic abuse video to Rob...
The new TNT series The Librarians (Sundays at 9 Eastern) is a continuation of the three...
Film noir began in the United States around 1940 and continued into the 1950s. It was id...
As I've noted earlier on this site, pulp fiction was quite unlike what people commonly thi...
My attitude toward genre fiction is that it's best when the creator is satisfied to make g...
(GIVE ME THAT) OLD-TIME DETECTION - Summer 2014 - Issue #36 - Old-Time Detection Special...
Set in the Great Plains region in the years immediately following the American Civil War/W...
If you're thinking about doing some gothic/horror reading this month, you can't go wrong b...
"The rain rained.” It takes a tremendous amount of courage, or foolishness, to begin a...
A popular film genre that has seldom received much respectful attention from critics and s...
News of publishing's demise is greatly exaggerated. Wander into any bookstore, be it a ...
Foreign menace strikes! Overseas crime novels are flooding U.S. shores, as American publis...
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of reading/hearing all of these so-called cu...
Fox’s FX channel has a history of pushing the boundaries of “free cable” program...
He was an artist, not an author, but I suspect he was responsible for more fantasy book...
H.P. Lovecraft—perhaps even more than Edgar Allen Poe—has been the guiding light of ...
The Nancy Drew book series just reached its 80th anniversary. These books were of better q...
One indicator of how far statism has progressed in American society and culture is the t...
As the recent passing of Mission: Impossible star Peter Graves reminds us, the mid-'60s ...
The new crime-drama series Justified premiered on FX Tuesday night at 10 EDT. The show, ...
On Monday, Janaury 18, 2010 Robert B. Parker joined Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Dash...
The Fox Network's venerable action-drama series 24, now in its eighth year, has always h...
On a hot August day in a big U.S. city after World War II, a man in a Santa Claus suit m...
The USA Network's first hit show, Monk, is nearing the end of its...
Although popular with audiences, the paranormal thriller The Fourth Kind...
