Trailer for new Parker film: Shane Black’s Play Dirty

Poster for 2025 movie, Play Dirty

As you may not have noticed because you’ve given up and stopped visiting, The Violent World of Parker has been on hiatus for awhile.

This is not a permanent thing. I plan to be active again before the end of the year. I am hoping to be active sooner than that.

But I would […]

Website cry for help, plus Parker movie news featuring Mark Wahlberg

A younger Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit.

Hello, folks! Been awhile!

You’re far more interested in the movie news, so I’ll be quick in talking about the site.

I put the site up in its current form around 2008, using a theme called Atahualpa. It was easy to use and I was […]

Parker movie news and thoughts

Update: Variety describes the project as “”a series of movie and television projects adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s ‘Parker’ crime fiction series.”

Original post (slightly edited) below.

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Some interesting news broke about a week ago concerning a new Parker movie project. Here is as much as we know:

It will be directed and […]

Movie review: The Nice Guys

I knew I should have written this up right after I saw the movie, or at the very least, the next day.

But I didn’t, and now it’s been almost a week since I’ve seen it, and I really wish it were completely fresh in my head because I don’t think I’m going to […]

Remo Williams’ adventure begins again–the Destroyer returning to film

As regular readers know, one of my favorite series of paperback originals is the Destroyer, created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. They made a movie version once, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, but it wasn’t a big enough hit to get a sequel, even though everyone who lived through the ’80s seems to […]