Someone somewhere decided that the world of cinema needed a film where beatniks and crime would collide, and as strange as it might sound, The Beat Generation made for very interesting and […]
A Shape in a Drape – The Beat Generation (1959)
Four Colour Thoughts – Dick Tracy #1 (2024)
The Creators – Alex Segura & Michael Moreci – Writers, Geraldo Borges – Artist, Chantelle Aimée Osman – Creative Consultant, Mark Englert – Colours, Jim Campbell – Letters The Players – Dick […]
Not Just Gold in that Mine – Beast From the Haunted Cave (1959)
Beast From the Haunted Cave sounds like it would be an incredible film. Sadly, though it would have a haunted cave and a beast that lives within it, there would be little […]
Living An… – American Nightmare (1983)
While perhaps dressed up as a horror film and featuring a few elements from the genre, American Nightmare is more a crime film than anything else. Essentially a movie about a serial […]
Striking Back – Night Key (1937)
The 1937, Boris Karloff-starring vehicle, Night Key is a fun little crime film that does nothing but entertain from start to finish. It is a perfect bit of fluff that will while-away […]
Living Though Dead – Black Friday (1940)
Despite featuring two of horror’s biggest icons in Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and being marketed as such, Black Friday features very little horror, if any. The story concerns Dr. Ernest Sovac […]
Just a Little… – Paranoid (2016)
2016 was a crowded year when it came to television, filled with powerful dramas like River, Marcela and DCI Banks and then along came Paranoid, a British crime drama that does little […]
Impersonation Gone Wrong – Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Crimes at the Dark House is a macabre little film starring the larger-than-life Tod Slaughter as a man who impersonates another in order to gain his fortune and does a poor job […]
Pulptastic! – Erle Stanley Gardner 2
More pulp greatness featuring Perry Mason and more!
Mind Capsules – Uncanny Avengers #1 and The Shadow #3
Uncanny Avengers #1 Writer – Gerry Duggan Artist – Ryan Stegman Colours – Richard Isanove The third volume of Uncanny Avengers begins with this issue, with new writer Gerry Duggan coming on […]
The Telltale Mind 