Our next Late Nite Grindhouse is another double feature. We're showing RE-ANIMATOR + BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR! Tickets available at www.destroythebrain.com/late-nite-gr...

Dunno whether to credit Martin Lawrence, Ron Shelton or Jerry Stahl but every time I watch BAD BOYS II I have to post this shot... it cracks me up

Watching Robert Redford in Michael Ritchie's 1972 film, THE CANDIDATE. Interesting, same year, Ritchie also helmed one of the most bizarre US crime films of the 1970s, PRIME CUT. On one level, the two couldn't be more dissimilar. On another, both are fascinating portraits of a country in turmoil

SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL #milknoir #oatmilknoir

The Coens are filmmakers whose body of work I wouldn't begrudge any selection from being someone's favorite, but most days MILLER'S CROSSING is mine

DRIVER Written by Clyde B. Phillips

The result was a real screwball tempo to the patter and a picture so overstuffed with gags I'm still discovering little details many years and watches later (like the ringtone on Perry's phone playing "I Will Survive" right after he gets shot)

Confusing feelings!

You losr your uniform? I work undercover now Undercover? You look like Gumby

THIEF works pretty well as a Parker movie imo. Professional? Check. Has a code as well as a method? Check. Hates the Outfit? Check. But really, it's that final stretch where he's burning down his life so that nobody has anything on him that's just So. Fucking. Cold. that reminds me of Parker.

The movie that changed my life turned 35 this week. Here’s a piece I wrote in 2020 celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Have now seen FRIENDSHIP three times First time in theaters with my youngest son 2nd time Friday night on HBO w/my wife 3rd time Saturday night with my older son I have worked through all my personal and interpersonal issues thank you for your concern

I've been getting fed a lot of Miami Vice reels over the past couple days. ...And I've been watching them. The auto subtitles for this are priceless

Nearly got decapitated by a guy falling outta the sky last night. How's your weekend

cinephiliabeyond.org/lethal-weapon/ my own appreciation -

Cool ongoing thread:

This is a great bit by @jakehinkson.bsky.social; nails the film and the formative experiences it gave. “It feels like…Black set out to make a movie, rather than part one of a series. This might explain the grittiness of the original film.” cc. @johnneyred.bsky.social

I'm sick and useless today, so please enjoy this list of Film Noir with the word "Street" or "Streets" in the title. Any other suggestions? boxd.it/OVcEi

Good day

Teaser of the insane new cover art for the upcoming PIG IRON reissue. (some of you might recognize that signature)

STATE OF GRACE is 10x more responsible than GOODFELLAS for radicalizing me as a crime guy

THIEF #milknoir

Quality thread.

You're a standup guy... A real standup guy... You got a mouth, you can take a trimmin... you could make things easy for everybody, but no, you gotta be a goof.

When you are jealous of Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines' Miami hijinks montage and want to make your own, you gotta have that Michael McDonald track handy

Wonderful thread, this

Black/Hunter - a thread of preparation and anticipation for Shane Black's PLAY DIRTY

All due respect to RJ and the WAKE UP DEAD MAN crew, but I wish that instead of 3 Benoit Blanc movies we had 3 Joe Bang movies by now

I am beginning to suspect I am the entire marketing team for Shane Black's new movie Play Dirty

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Well, this is a good sign! bsky.app/profile/pris...

I saw MIDNIGHT RUN while babysitting (kids' family had HBO), but I saw LETHAL WEAPON, DIE HARD, PREDATOR and... THE WALL? by taped off of cable VHS tapes passed around the Jr. High school

THE SPLIT (1968) #milknoir

Pertaining to my interests

Black/Hunter - a thread of preparation and anticipation for Shane Black's PLAY DIRTY

Time to watch one of my favorite erotic thrillers, Peter Hall's completely bonkers NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS with Rebecca De Mornay and the hottest man ever on screen (Antonio Banderas in 1995)

Maybe Mike Figgis just has a type? Sting in STORMY MONDAY Julian Sands in LEAVING LAS VEGAS

The cast of MOONSHINE HIGHWAY also features David Cronenberg as a shine runner... you should see it

Good year for crime novel adaptations

Heads up, New York City! I'm coming your way on Oct 21st to celebrate the launch of my new book YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME at the legendary Mysterious Bookshop. If you're in or around town, come see me! www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/jak...

New Johnny Shaw. Rejoice

Does anybody remember PATRIOT? Fucking laughed so hard and cried a little bit too the longer that show went on www.youtube.com/watch?

Great to see QUARRY get a nod

Will definitely be rewatching RZs THE MUNSTERS soon. I love this very silly and surprisingly sweet movie

"SOMETHING WILD is an atomic undressing of genre clichés, lies, and costumes. As with the best of Demme’s work, it uses a genre getup solely as an excuse to explore the truth, the funkyjunky Americana (& its multiculti makeup) that so many of his characters can be at first oblivious to."

Porch read: BAD GUYS by Eugene Izzi

Nearly a decade ago I was at my last Noircon in Philadelphia. Three glorious days of drinking & bullshitting about noir. I presented on the history of Australian pulp fiction & hung out with @maybejed.bsky.social , Felix the Helix & others at Bob & Barbara's Dive Bar. Does that place still exist?

I've been let down by shows that started strong before, but first episode of TASK is very promising. Fingers crossed

The inventor of badass. #TopOfTheWorld