Saturday, July 29, 2006

Keeping It Reel

In addition to writing the Nick Madrid comic crime series (Cast Adrift, Foiled Again) and reviewing crime fiction for The Observer, British novelist Peter Guttridge has just introduced a column in Shots about “new crime and mystery releases on the big screen and on DVD.” “Screen Crime,” as that offering is called, is starting out slowly, with Guttridge commenting on Elevator to the Gallows (1957), Hidden (2005), and other July DVD releases, but he promises more next month, including a focus on warm and cuddly films starring Mickey Rourke. Though, since Angel Heart (1987) is scheduled to be among his topics of commentary, perhaps “warm and cuddly” isn’t the right description to use.

1 comment:

Alcuin Bramerton said...

While parking his car
Outside the dry cleaners,
A man kills several pedestrians.

While he is inside the dry cleaners,
His car continues to kill pedestrians,
But in a less organised way.

The police are very good about it.

They wait
Until he has paid
His dry cleaning bill,
Before shooting him dead.

It is a quiet village, normally.
But in a mature democracy,
There have to be checks and balances.