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Brit Grit Alley
Brit Grit Alley features news and updates on what's happening down British crime fiction's booze and blood soaked alleyways.By Paul D. Brazill Ey up! This week's guest columnist is none other than...
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Benoit Lelievre Fights His Way Through Noir
“Dude, why did you come dressed as a luchador?”Benoit Lelievre runs a hand across his brow and through his hair, so slick with sweat that he might as well have that fever from The Walking Dead. He...
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FRIDAY FLICKS: KILLER'S KISS!
Friday Flicks is getting real. In other words, this feature is throwing its considerable support behind the study of real flicks, by seeking to augment the efforts of classic film experts William Boyle...
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Classic Film Review: Killer's Kiss (1955)
By Anthony MorettaKiller's Kissis Stanley Kubrick's second feature as a director, following the obscure Fear and Desire (1953). It's often said that this film is more promise and glimpses of Kubrick's...
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Veterans
It's Funk Week here at the FFO. If you read pulp and crime, you've certainly seen the name. The goddamn guy is everywhere. And you'd be hard pressed to find a better storyteller...Up first, we have a...
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Bareknuckles Pulp No. 29: Thinspiration
Read this one carefully, Bareknucklers. This one is not at all what it seems, and the more disturbing for it.Thinspiration by Rebecca Jones-HoweHe seemed normal at first. I thought he was going to ask...
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Review: Through A Shattered Lens, I Saw by L A Sykes
Chris LeekIndependent ReviewerContact Chris to have your work reviewed.BioBlogTwitterYou may have seen the name L A Sykes attached to some hard-boiled slices of flash fiction over at Shotgun Honey and...
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John Gilmore - On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde
John Gilmore's new book is an exploration of the fast lives and tragic deaths of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.“If you’re going to read one book on Bonnie and Clyde, this is it — the most definitive...
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Brit Grit Alley
Brit Grit Alley features news and updates on what's happening down British crime fiction's booze and blood soaked alleyways.By Paul D. Brazill Runarouuuuuuud ... Now! This week down Brit Grit Alley I...
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High Hopes
In the second installment of this week's paired flash pieces, Matthew C. Funk takes us from grade school on up in the Big and not so Easy. Peer pressure like a vice grip. This week's heart-breaker....
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Classic Film Review: Animal Kingdom (2010)
By Bill BoyleOne of the best crime pictures of the new millennium, David Michôd's Animal Kingdom is a quiet lash of brutal realism. When it was released in 2010, all the talk was about Jacki Weaver's...
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Studio Apartment
Down here in the Gutter, we all know no one is who they say they are. It works the same way for stories, too.Four walls, a ceiling, and the dream of a better life means something different to...
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Review: All Due Respect - The Anthology
Chris LeekIndependent ReviewerContact Chris to have your work reviewed.BioBlogTwitterThe All Due Respect website has consistently published good crime fiction from a wide range of new and established...
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Brit Grit Alley
Brit Grit Alley features news and updates on what's happening down British crime fiction's booze and blood soaked alleyways.By Paul D. Brazill Ey up! Down Brit Grit Alleya bit back, Darren Sant and...
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Let's All Take A Hard Bite Out Of Anonymous-9
I’m nervous about this, but only because she’s a seasoned pro. I mean I’ve done this before, but still. A woman like Anonymous-9 intimidates a man. We’re in her office, which is lit only by the hues of...
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Classic Film Review: Excess Baggage (1997)
By Anthony MorettaI don't know many people who have seen this movie. When mentioned, I get the typical "with Alicia Silverstone?" reply. Yes, and Benicio Del Toro and Christopher Walken. Directed by...
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Broken Window
I'm going to be honest. We don't have all the answers in the Gutter. It's nice when a story comes in, and I can write a pithy intro, slap that fucker up and get on with my day. This story, however...
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Brit Grit Alley
Brit Grit Alley features news and updates on what's happening down British crime fiction's booze and blood soaked alleyways.By Paul D. Brazill Ey up! This week down Brit Grit Ally, I have a natter with...
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Bad Man's Money
Mike McCrary is in the confessional booth this week at FFO.He teaches us, once again, that no good deed goes unpunished.Bad Man's Money by Mike McCraryLet’s be clear. I am not a bad man. A desperate...
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Classic Film Review: The Yakuza (1974)
By Bill BoyleI’m 34 now. I probably started watching movies seriously when I was 12. I love Robert Mitchum. I loved him from the minute I first saw him. I remember it well: TheNight of the Hunter ran...
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