Category Archives: Film

Sinister Cinema: Wim Wenders’ Hammett

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Don

Heard from a guy over in France who plans to do a documentary on the 1982 Wim Wender’s film based on the Joe Gores novel Hammett. Cool aspect — I guess if it all works out — is that the … Continue reading →

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Mort: Raquel Welch

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Don

Upon news of her passing today at the age of 82, Autograph Hound Brian Leno pulled his signed Raquel Welch print from his stacks and stacks of autos. From One Million Years B. C., of course. I usually misquote a … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: A Marlowesque Neeson

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Don

Brian Wallace slipped me the dope back in 2019 that Liam Neeson was lined up to portray Philip Marlowe in a flick. Now he sends along a review of the finished film by Stephanie Bunbury. You know people will argue … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Jeopardy! Hits Nick and Nora (And Glass Onion Cameos the Black Bird)

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Don

Jeopardy! hasn’t hit the Hammett clew pile lately as much as it did back in the Golden Age of Alex Trebek. But every now and then they just can’t avoid it. . . . For the show broadcast December 23rd, … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Superman Live

Posted on December 18, 2022 by Don

Autograph Hound Super-Sunday once more, and from his extensive files of John Hancocks stacked on top of John Hancocks, Brian Leno sends in Kirk Alyn — the first actor to portray Superman in live action. Brian noted, “Am enjoying the … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Patrick Warburton

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Don

Onscreen in The Woman Chaser, Patrick Warburton plays one of the most unlikable characters you’ll ever meet — before and after the movie, though, you’re talking to one of the friendliest people you’ll find in the bar of the Alamo … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: The Producer

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Don

Willeford said he sent his 1960 novel in under the title The Director, before Newsstand Library changed it to The Woman Chaser. The director for the movie didn’t make it to this screening (I heard it may have been an … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: For the Q&A

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Don

Toward the Q&A following the screening of The Woman Chaser with Patrick Warburton in the role of Richard Hudson, I poked around in my book Willeford for any tidbits of info on the novel — a Paperback Original released by … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Q&A

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Don

For the Alamo Drafthouse special screening of The Woman Chaser on December 7, they followed the film with a Q&A featuring — left to right, above — me, Joe McSpadden, Patrick Warburton (panelists) and Jake Isgar (moderator). Don’t think I’d … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: The Woman Chaser

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Don

Joe McSpadden, producer for 1999’s The Woman Chaser, mentioned that the December 7 showing in the Alamo Drafthouse put the movie on the largest screen ever — swell deal for cineastes. Above, a still frame of star Patrick Warburton as … Continue reading →

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