Sentences with phrase «pulp novels»

These are the mindless pulp novels that are slowly taking over my entire apartment.

Some say that outlaws no longer exist, that the true spirit of the American West died with the legendary bandits of pulp novels and bedtime stories.

Actor turned director Tate Taylor proves to be even less adept crafting mystery thrillers than he does insincere period melodrama with his third feature, The Girl on the Train, an adaptation of the bestselling pulp novel by Paula Hawkins.

1:45 pm — TCM — The Postman Always Rings Twice Sizzling adaptation of James M. Cain's classic pulp novel has Lana Turner as the unhappy wife of a middle - of - nowhere gas station owner and John Garfield as the drifter who drops in and plots her husband's demise with her.

Despite similarities as a vigilante creature of the night, however, the Shadow — a character that enjoyed its greatest success in radio after being created in pulp novels — lacks the visceral appeal of Batman and won't strike the same chord.

While he's been knocking around since the mid-1990s, writing pulp novels like The Beach and screenplays for films such as Never Let Me Go, 28 Days Later and Sunshine, Ex Machina marks Alex Garland's debut as a director.

Me: Give me the two - liner pitch on what readers can expect to see when they pick up one of your New Pulp novels.

I felt like writer and director John Milius really captured the spirit of the original Robert E. Howard pulp novels.

Perhaps going for something a little less elevated than usual, Sundance Channel went and got itself a miniseries based on Joe R. Lansdale's 1990 swamp - noir pulp novel «Savage Season,» titled «Hap and Leonard,» for its main characters.

They were the early - eighties equivalent of the lurid pulp novels and EC Comics of yesterday's drugstore and barbershop ledge.

Josh Hartnett's understated naturalism, Harry Treadaway's peevishly arrogant BBC angst, Timothy Dalton's scenery - chewing, and Danny Sapani's gravitas all operate together, an easy mishmash that works with horrified stares and grim humor like any good pulp novel should.

After years of crime reporting, screenwriting, and authoring pulp novels, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford (played by Red River's John Ireland), who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.

Tales were swapped, newspaper stories were written, and pulp novels churned out in which sociopaths were remade into «legendary» gunslingers, and when the movies were invented, the folk antiheroes took naturally to them, too.

This is where the film seems to tee up that it will have some deeper objective than just being the cinematic equivalent of an airport pulp novel.

Yes, the typesetting could be more precise, but the old pulp novels sold wonderfully well despite not rising to the aesthetic level you are suggesting.

One advantage is that you'll never again buy an overpriced pulp novel in an airport only to throw it away unread.

This science fiction book, which is not really a science fiction book, tells a story, which is not really a story that is part tone poem, part pulp novel, part experimental romance, and parts of many other things.

The game is all about pulp novels and a fight between writers, and it's a theme that really makes the game stand out and will definitely please book lovers...

Ackermann's 2008 series «Don't Give Me Salad (Nurses)» references Richard Prince's well - known paintings, but with her own pulp novel take on females straddling fragility and violence.

Greg Gossel is an American artist, whose work employs a variety of pop culture subject matter including pulp novels, romance comics, and politics.

8:00 pm / 7:00 pm — TCM — The Postman Always Rings Twice Sizzling adaptation of James M. Cain's classic pulp novel has Lana Turner as the unhappy wife of a middle - of - nowhere gas station owner and John Garfield as the drifter who drops in and plots her husband's demise with her.

Kait Nolan wrote an insightful post about Indie as the New Pulp Novel (and I'm sure people like Konrath have talked about it too).

A crime fighter created in the 1930s and popularized in movies, pulp novels, and a radio show starring a young Orson Welles, The Shadow came back to life in 1994 in this slick, well - cast production.

Elegantly stylish, intensely erotic, and slightly perverse, this rendition of Thomson's pulp novel is an art movie that's likely to divide sharply film critics and audiences — go for the ride.

Based on Mickey Spillane's pulp novel of the same title, the book was adapted for the screen by A. I. Bezzerides and unforgettably captured on film by Academy Award — winning cinematographer Ernest Laszlo.

But Ibáñez is also able to imbue wonderful, idiosyncratic touches — like an indistinguishable Dylan McDermott as a corrupt cop straight out of some pulp novel.

Based on Jim Thompson's pulp novel of the same name, John Cusack loved the book so much that he wanted to option it in high school.

Based loosely on a pulp novel by Brett Halliday.

Part revisionist melodrama and postmodernist Douglas Sirk - style weepie, Carol is adapted by Phyllis Nagy (Mrs. Harris) from Patricia Highsmith's (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1952 pulp novel, The Price of Salt, itself a decidedly outré lesbian love story and the only non-crime novel she ever penned.

Part revisionist melodrama and postmodernist Douglas Sirk - style weepie, Carol is adapted by Phyllis Nagy (Mrs. Harris) from Patricia Highsmith's (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1952 pulp novel, The Price of Salt, itself a decidedly outré lesbian love story and... Read more»

Based on the pulp novel The Chair for Martin Rome, Mature and Richard Conte face off in the tough streets of New York in one of the grittier entries on this list.

What you might not have heard is that this adaptation of Pete Dexter's pulp novel is less a so - bad - it's - great pleasure than the cinematic equivalent of the Hindenburg crash, and that no amount of Matthew McConaughey daringness, drag - queen - ready dialogue or shots of Efron in his tighty - whities can save this movie from its own incoherence.

The static main menu reformats the DVD's creative cover / disc artwork, a cross between a comic book and a pulp novel cover.

Miller's Crossing is as close to a pulp novel as you can get without actually being a pulp novel.

John Cusack stars as a slick swindler in this quirky, absorbing adaptation of Jim Thompson's pulp novel.

I like reading adventure, mystery, fantasy, and digitized versions of the classic pulp novels.

Don't think that fanzines were especially lost or discarded any more than other inexpensive publications like the pulp novels that they were talking about.

Joyland, which is a throwback to the pulp novels of mid-century, will have to be read on a... Continue Reading →

Highly recommended: Francesco Francavilla's retro - noir Black Beetle comics, featuring action - packed stories and art ripped straight from the cover of a pulp novel.

It seems likely (there's even a «Cindy» named in one of the pulp novel quotes), but she is equally indebted to the European photo - novel, and maybe also to Chris Marker's La Jetée.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Since the 1970s, Jim Shaw has mined the essentials of American cultural detritus — from comic books, pulp novels, and album covers, to vintage advertisements, movie posters, and noise rock.

This suite of small works — started as visual interpretations of his pulp novel Ten High in the early «80s — feature several recurring characters (including one very skinny horse) in a setting that looks like it's already made the transition into a ghost town.

Shaw's work mines the essentials of American cultural detritus, from comic books, pulp novels, and album covers, to vintage advertisements, movie posters, and noise rock.

Campo Santo, developer of the 2016 hit adventure title, Firewatch, recently revealed that in fulfillment of a fan's request, members of the development team underwent a process to recreate a physical version of one of the pulp novels that players can find scattered around the in - game environment.