• Essays

    Is Altman’s 'The Long Goodbye' the Most Overrated Crime Film of 1973?

    The answer may depend on whether it's actually a crime film.

    March 23, 2023  By Andrew Nette
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    Why 1973 Was the Year Sidney Lumet Took on Police Corruption

    In one year, Lumet made two films about police abuse. So how come we only seem to remember 'Serpico'?

    March 23, 2023  By Andrew Nette
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    50 Years of 'The Long Goodbye'

    Reflections from Elliot Gould and from the long, complicated legacy of a private eye film made for a new era.

    March 23, 2023  By Matthew Redmond
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    The ­­­­­­Nuclear War Scare of 1983, And The Pop Culture Soundtrack of Anxiety

    "[Western citizens] had no idea that the world was on the brink of nuclear war...Ironically, the prospect of nuclear war was very present in popular entertainment..."

    March 22, 2023  By Brian J. Morra
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    How Annette Lyon Went From Writing "Sweet Romance" to Suspense

    Genre whiplash? Maybe not.

    March 21, 2023  By Annette Lyon
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    Aviation Thrillers: Novels That Get the Pressures of Flying Right

    Author and pilot Ward Larsen on stories that fly right 

    March 17, 2023  By Ward Larsen
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    Horror Does a Body Good, or, The Story of My Teeth

    "Horror understands the space between our selves and our bodies, that detachment, gruesome and addictive, disgusting, beautiful, loving and oh-so-human."

    March 17, 2023  By Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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    Ashes in the Aspic: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s Life and Short Crime Fiction

    "Elisabeth Sanxay Holding [wrote] fiction which dared to divulge unsavory truths about her society..."

    March 16, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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    I Was a Teenage Pop Culture Detective

    Hector DeJean on the delights of discovering cultural offerings in the days before the internet.

    March 16, 2023  By Hector DeJean
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    Writing the Forest and the Trees

    "I consciously constructed each detail, because living somewhere so different made me hyper-aware of each detail."

    March 16, 2023  By Vibhuti Jain
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