Category Archives: Film

Sinister Cinema: Holy Spicy Detective, Batman!

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. Sometimes Spicy. Always Hot. For the nineteenth installment in his series, pulp expert John Locke takes us along on another expedition, where we find a unique sighting of a pulp in the … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Doc Savage Meets Bogie

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Don

On Sale Every Wednesday: Pulps in the Movies — and How! Today hero-pulp stalwart Doc Savage shares a scene with Humphrey Bogart. Man, you cannot get any more pulp and movie than that, right? Not that anyone ever spotted Doc’s … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: A Meta-Pulp on Broadway

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies! All Singing! All Dancing! On Sale Every Wednesday! Today John Locke, our resident pulp expert and movie buff, strikes a new chord in the hallelujah chorus of pulp sightings. Doctor, fix me up a new pulp, … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Chain Gang

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. From three hour extravaganzas with multi-million-dollar budgets to quick and cheap studio shorts, our resident pulp expert and cinema hound John Locke works the entire waterfront. Tirelessly. Here’s John with the latest: … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Kong

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. Today the noted pulp expert John Locke takes us back to the days of 1933 via the digital magic of 2005 — the days when newsstands selling pulps populated the big cities, … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: More Ruric

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies — On Sale Every Wednesday! Stocking the digital newsstand, none other than pulp expert extraordinaire and tireless cineaste John Locke. The guy’s a digger. Hot off covering the Peter Ruric flick Grand Central Murder on April … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Gaudy Wilmerian Patter

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies! On Sale Every Wednesday! In his exciting series renowned pulp expert John Locke has hit them short and sweet, the slam-bam thanks for holding a pulp, m’am posts. He’s gone back into the silent era. He’s … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Pulps in the Movies Gets a Cinesavant Nod

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Don

John Locke’s ongoing series Pulps in the Movies — On Sale Every Wednesday — gets some coverage over on Cinesavant, about halfway down the column. If you like movies you’d like Pulps in the Movies, right? But today is Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: That Old Navy Blues

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Don

For the twelfth exciting installment in his epic Pulps in the Movies series — On Sale Every Wednesday — John Locke goes way back to that transitional era when the talkies were muscling aside silent cinema, uncovering not only pulps … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Bathtub Pulp

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies! On Sale Every Wednesday. Once again our resident adviser on all things wood pulp ransacks the archives of Hollywood for purposes of amusement and instruction. An education with a smile. That adviser, of course, none other … Continue reading →

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