After a few weeks’ hiatus, this extraordinarily useful weekly roundup of great cinema writing from around the intertubes is back! For the links to the various items, click here.
Yvette Banek: Hold That Ghost!; Anatomy of a Murder; Manhattan Murder Mystery
Steve Lewis: A Dangerous Profession; A Yank in Libya
Stephen Gallagher: “Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination”
Stephen Bowie: Bad TV criticism in the NYT and Shonda Rhimes; Jerry McNeely; Stanley Chase
Stacia Jones: Stonehearst Asylum; The Lusty Men; Force Majeure
Sergio Angelini: The Return of the Thin Man; The Dragon Murder Case; Lone Starand Elizabeth Peña; The Empty Beach; Partners in Crime
Ron Scheer: Mystery Road; Wanted: Dead or Alive; Gunsmoke (radio); The Legend of the Reno Brothers
Rick: House of Dark Shadows; The Mummy (1959 film); The Atomic City; Smoke Signal; 1950s: Cinema’s Most Important Decade
Randy Johnson: The Amazing Transparent Man; Kill or Be Killed, aka Uccidi o muori; Arizona Colt Returns, aka Arizona si scatenò… e li fece fuori tutti!; Arizona Colt; Two Pistols and a Coward, aka Il pistolero segnato da Dio; Made for Each Other; The Relentless Four, aka I 4 inesorabil
Prashant Trikannad: Morgan Freeman; Diwali; The Claim (2000 film); The Quick and the Dead
Patti Abbott: Clean and Sober; movies you’ve been meaning to see; The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; A Member of the Wedding; In the Mood for Love
Mystery Dave: Dracula Untold
Marty McKee: My Blood Runs Cold; The Beasts Are on the Streets
Martin Edwards: The Missing (BBC-TV); The Intruders (BBC-TV); Woman of Straw
Lucy Brown: The Lady Vanishes (1938 film); Swing Time
Laura: Boy Meets Girl; Outlaw Gold; Return of the Gunfighter; Rustlers; The Saint’s Double Trouble
Kliph Nesteroff: Mason Williams on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour days
Jose Cruz: Dark Fantasy (radio): four episodes
Jonathan Lewis: Waterfront; Drum Beat
John Grant: Down Three Dark Streets; Den Som Frykter Ulven, aka Cry in the Woods
Jerry House: The Stranger (1946 film); The Eddie Arnold Show (radio)
James Reasoner: Don’t Open the Door!; Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Jake Hinkson: The Shootist; Gun Street
Jacqueline T. Lynch: Quincy, M.E.: “Murder on Ice”
Jackie Kashian: Debra DiGiovanni
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: The Hollywood Time Machine; Betrayed (1944 film); Glorifying the American Girl; Dixiana
Iba Dawson: Maps to the Stars; friends and family pick scary films; Life of Riley (2014 film)
George Kelley: Universal Classic Monsters (dvd box set)
Evan Lewis: Tricky Dicks
Elizabeth Foxwell: Shadows on the Stairs
Ed Lynskey: Blood on the Moon
Ed Gorman: Act of Violence
David Vineyard: The Ghost Breakers
Dan Stumpf: Outlaw
B. V. Lawson: Media Murder
Brian Arnold: The Haunted Castle (1896 film); “If a Body Meets a Body”; BJ and the Bear: “BJ and the Witch”
Bill Crider: Family Business [trailer]
Anne Billson: My top ten zombie moves; female buddy-cop movies: Rare Birds
Noirish 
Terribly sorry to have missed you and your panel (and a number of other people!) at NoirCon…hope it was a fine time.
Thanks for dropping by, Todd! Um, I alas wasn’t at Noircon — the first I heard of it was on Sunday morning, when a report came in from Out of the Gutter‘s correspondent there. I spat and cursed, because if I’d had even a few days’ warning I’d have been there — we’re only a couple of hours’ drive away.
What surprises me most of all is that my publisher didn’t tell me about it — you’d have thought that’d be something they’d be all over.
Weirder still, I thought I saw “John Grant” as moderator of a likely panel on the online version of the agenda…though I suppose there could be more than one John Grant in the criminous literary/narrative art world…or my exhaustion and mild cold, which kept me away, was playing tricks on my perception…
I’ve just checked out their site, and you’re absolutely right. On the “tentative list of presenters”, too, there’s the name John Grant listed, but unusually for that list it has no website link attached . . . so I can’t tell if it’s a different John Grant (by no means impossible!) or if there was some dreadful communications foulup.
I think this is the cue for a Cornell Woolrich story . . .
The mystery of the John Grant doppelganger has been solved, thanks to Kate Laity! This is the john Grant who moderated that panel: http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/13?page=3
Phew!