News for week ending 2009-10-24

Jack Batten at the Toronto Star–Westlake is gone, long live Dortmunder: http://bit.ly/1uSLfe # Olman’s Fifty takes a look at The Man With the Getaway Face: http://bit.ly/2Ldftd #

Darwyn Cooke sketch available on eBay

The seller claims it’s from Parker, although I don’t see Parker in the sketch and don’t immediately recognize the scene. Pretty cool, anyway.

Bidding ends in three days. You can bid here.

Review: Blood’s a Rover by James Ellroy

It was probably a bad idea to pen a sequel to American Tabloid, but James Ellroy did it anyway and came up with another great one, The Cold Six Thousand.

It was probably a bad idea to add another book and make a trilogy (Underworld USA) out of it, but James Ellroy did it […]

News for week ending 2009-10-17

Robert W. Butler at the Kansas City Star reviews the original version of The Stepfather: http://bit.ly/1phv1V # Ed Gorman interviews Max Allan Collins about his character Quarry: http://bit.ly/RkIsh # Muriel Dobbin at the Washington Times reviews Get Real (spoilers galore): http://bit.ly/2lzxSS # Mike Hale at NYT anticipates this weekend’s release of The Stepfather remake […]

Trailer for The Stepfather remake

This trailer for the completely unnecessary remake of the Westlake-written The Stepfather appropriately features a completely unnecessary cover of The Cars’ “Drive.”

If you’re planning on seeing this, be warned that the trailer seems to give away the entire film.

The Stepfather comes out on October […]

News for week ending 2009-10-10

Quincy Jones' soundtrack to The Split (based on The Seventh) is available in a limited edition from Film Score Monthly: http://bit.ly/RHW6b #

News for week ending 2009-10-03

Mike Knowles at Do Some Damage–The Stark Equation: http://bit.ly/8JuAp # Craig Lindsey at the News Observer–Writing So Good, Larceny is Funny: http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/story/115140.html # DVD Talk reviews horror gem The Stepfather, written by Westlake and Brian Garfield. Sure to be lousy remake coming soon: http://bit.ly/VFrsa # DVD Talk reviews horror gem The Stepfather, written by […]