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All Things Thriller

A Celebration of Thrillers, Noire and Black Comedy by Pamela Lowe Saldana

Category / Gangster Movie

The Many Saints Of Newark: An Exercise in Nostalgia

One of my favorite things to play is “remember when”, or as it is otherwise known, “remember the time”. I play it with my friends and family whenever we get together over the holidays and such. I’m sure you play it too. Everybody does. Sometimes we’ll play it when were talking about our favorite movies. […]

Get Carter, a film directed by Mike Hodges, 1971; British; Mystery

Whew! Get Carter–director Mike Hodges’ cinematic film debut and undisputed king of the British gangster movie–is complicated. That’s just one of the many things I love about it. It’s a righteous flick. It checks out. Intricate plot twists, lots of dialogue and low volume sequences where you have to listen ever so carefully, or at […]