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While I’m sure there are some critics who do enjoy it, I really hate writing negative reviews. I’m always aware that even if the book, movie, or album didn’t quite work for me, it represents hundreds if not thousands of hours of hard work for someone, and I don’t think very many people set […] …and me! This one’s so hot off the presses, the website isn’t even live. This is Noir Magazine, a new magazine for tablets. I downloaded it for my iPad today, the day of its debut. I just got the iPad a few weeks ago. I won it in a drawing of all things, the […] Above is the second trailer. Interesting that Payback is alluded to. Here’s a behind the scenes featurette. It’s mostly just footage from the trailers with some comments by director Taylor Hackford, Jason Statham, and Jennifer Lopez edited in. Nothing terribly insightful, but it’s only two and half minutes long. I got it from […] 
Les Alexander was Donald Westlake’s friend for 35 years and is a producer on the Parker film. He sent this e-mail to reader Dave, who posted it to the comments. Dave and I both thought it was worth a post of its it own. Les has been kind enough to engage us hardcore Parker […] 
Here is the cover for the University of Chicago Press’ upcoming reprint of Flashfire to coincide with the film based on it. I like that they kept it simple, and I’m thrilled that they put the original title on the cover. I think I wrote in a previous post or comment that this would […] Well, folks, here it is. A lot of you are going to be disappointed. Not because the film looks bad. It looks like a fun action flick. But they couldn’t resist softening up the character a little bit. So yes, that awful bit about “don’t steal from people who can’t afford it,” that I […] 
Here it is folks, via IGN and a tip from reader Eloise. Also, alas, in the IGN piece is this depressing bit: Here’s the official plot synopsis for the film, which was directed by Ray’s Taylor Hackford: “Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief who lives by a personal code […] Someone in West Palm Beach took some camcorder footage of the filming of a scene from the upcoming Parker film starring Jason Statham. You probably don’t want to sit through all four minutes of this, as it’s mostly helicopters flying around starting at dusk and continuing into night, but once you’ve got the gist, […] 
Introduction Darwyn Cooke does one in-depth interview for each volume in his series of comic book adaptations of Richard Stark’s [pseudonym of Donald Westlake] Parker novels. (Here are the interviews for The Hunter and The Outfit.) For his new one, The Score, he was kind enough to invite The Violent World of Parker to […] 
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