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...mood for the whole cycle. It's about one of those days when everything goes wrong. Steve (Steve Brodie), a decent Joe who's been married to loving Anne (Audrey Long) for four months, gets a call one evening to make some easy money driving his truck for Walt (Raymond Burr), a guy he used to know. The truck, Steve learns, is to be used for a heist, and when he protests he's forced into it, and spotted by the police. He gets away, but Walt's brother Al is picked up. Now Steve is on the bad side...
...Remember that even Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, though they were published by the most reputable house (Knopf) and wrote popular books that became hit movies, weren't considered the equals of "serious" novelists. They wrote genre fiction. The New Yorker critic (and novelist) Edmund Wilson could find "the boys in the back room" lacking. Then came another irony. Later generations of critics threw off their pretensions and mined the gritty glories of pulp fiction; they cogently argued that Hammett and Chandler, and Thompson and David Goodis and others, were worth cherishing (and that writers like Wilson, who's forgotten...
...when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper--as faint as the vermouth in a martini--of Cormac McCarthy...
...especially not afford it now. Every month of record gas prices brings more pressure on Congress to impose a windfall tax on oil companies. BP?s chief executive, Lord John Browne, made a relatively modest $8.24 million last year, but his counterpart at Exxon-Mobil, Lee Raymond, retired with a package worth an astonishing $400 million - adding more fuel to the fire over CEO pay and calls for oil industry profits to be reined in. While BP isn?t lobbying for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the company has big plans to expand in North America; it aims...
...Facing down one tough guy, she poses the rhetorical question: "Want a taste of a bitch who?s really lost her mind?" Surrounded by a cast of overactors (who provide way too much burly comic relief for my taste), Namsoon anchors a movie that straddles genres. Think of a Raymond Chandler yarn reimagined by Zhang Yimou and shot by ? well, like nobody...