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Film Review: We Own the Night (2007)
By Bill Boyle Ten Reasons Why We Own the Night is a Modern Classic: Writing about underrated Brooklyn crime movies got me thinking a lot about James Gray. My list included his first feature, Little...
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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 Ruth Jacobs BioRuth Jacobs writes a series of novels...
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How May I Help You?
Service with a smile? In the Gutter, that's just another day at the office. Where every cup of coffee comes with a Killer Smile.Take a number. Get in line. Who says customer service is dead?How May I...
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Bareknuckles Pulp No. 31: No Good Deed
All the way from Australia, Pete Aldin delivers some bad, bad doings in an abattoir. That's slaughterhouse to you. No Good Deed by Pete AldinI’m squatting inside the outdoor holding pens – riffling...
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A F*ckload of Jedidiah
Define noir for the masses, please. James Ellroy says noir means 'you're fucked.' Works for me. Eddie Muller said the essence of noir was 'you will destroy yourself.' I like that too. Dennis Lehane...
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Classic Film Review: Gun Crazy (1950)
The title says a lot. Not everything, but a lot. It's a loony flick with guns.The dangerous couple leading the picture are Bart (John Dall) and Laurie (Peggy Cummins). Bart's pistol-obsessed, back from...
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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 The big news down Brit Grit Alley this week is the...
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A Bigger, Better Man
The bigger they are, the harder they fall? Down here in the Gutter, it's the other way around...Who said size doesn't matter?A Bigger, Better Man by Nathaniel TowerThe day Wendy walked out because I...
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Review: Getting Ugly by Mike McCrary
Chris LeekIndependent ReviewerContact Chris to have your work reviewed.BioBlogTwitterOne of the Gutter’s repeat offenders, Mike McCrary is up this week. First, check out his stories here on the site...
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Review: Threats by Amelia Gray
By Gabino IglesiasOrder from AmazonWhen a novel gives readers a few familiar elements, they tend to quickly settle and start thinking they know what's coming next. There's a certain comfort in entering...
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Contrition
Hell knows many kinds of fury other than a woman scorned.This week, Dyer Wilk makes his Contrition at FFO ...Contrition by Dyer WilkZeke was about half-a-thrust away from coming when the motel room...
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Classic Film Review: Sisters (1973)
By Bill BoyleYou'll say Sisters isn't a crime movie. You'll say it's not gritty and raw and real. You’ll say it’s a Hitchcock rip-off. You’ll say blah blah blah. I'll say: Who gives a fuck? It's Brian...
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Sniper Wanted
In the Good Book, you reap the seeds you sow. (By "Good Book" we of course mean Cash by Johnny Cash.)In the Gutter, you live like a dog, you die like a dog.Sniper Wanted by Laramore BlackI am a dead...
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Bareknuckles Pulp No. 32: Dandelion
Meet Jane. She's good at EVERYTHING.Dandelion by Kristen LambJane’s hands shake as she nurses the bitter box merlot, served in a chipped plastic glass. She’s a good girl. This isn’t really her. Girls...
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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 This week down Brit Grit Alley, I take a look at:The Call...
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Classic Film Review: Kansas City Confidential (1952)
By Anthony MorettaKansas City Confidential is an elbow to the noir chops. A crime flick with no real suspense or twist, but heaps of action. It features a heist that corners too soon and leaves the...
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Cold, Steel Rail
I've played Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and lamented the loss of a lot of girls.But I ain't never played the song and thought of this...Cold, Steel Rail by Manuel RoyalA dark girl, a cinnamon...
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Review: Wake The Undertaker by Joe Clifford
Chris LeekIndependent ReviewerContact Chris to have your work reviewed.BioBlogTwitterIf I’m reading this calendar right then today is Tuesday and here in the Gutter that can mean only one thing. It...
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Review: Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura
By Gabino IglesiasOrder From AmazonFuminori Nakamura made a lot of waves in the US with The Thief, a novel that earned him the 2010 Oe Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary award, and his first to...
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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 This week down Brit Grit Alley:OUT SOON! SEVEN DAZE BY...
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