For this week’s selection I decided to do something new. Two movies based on the same source material. The book in question is “The Hunter” the first of Donald E. Westlake’s “Parker” novels, written under the penname Richard Stark. Parker,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure this was one of my better ideas for a selection theme but I did it anyhow. As a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s early work (haven’t seen more than a half hour of both Kill Bills, haven’t seen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I went with films with the same character in this case Raymond Chandle’sr classic hard boiled detective Phillip Marlowe. I confess I’d never read any of Chandler’s books or seen any of the movies in fact much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to go with biopics of famous directors. (or in this case one famous and one notorious) The first, Gods and Monsters, tells us the story of the last days of the life of horror director James[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So after two sessions of binge watching courtesy of a friend with a Netflix account I have seen all of the first season of Jessica Jones. This is an adaptation of the series, Allias by Micheal Bendis about a cynical,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
