PULP CURRY

Everything was like that. Nothing was exactly like that.

The Baader-Meinhof gang on the big screen

Sep 20 • 

Andrew Nette

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8

James Coburn's Hard Contract

If he was still alive, James Coburn would’ve been 97 a few days ago.

Sep 4 • 

Andrew Nette

29

8

July 2025

The last good British gangster film

Sexy Beast and 10 other great British gangster movies

Jul 31 • 

Andrew Nette

59

28

June 2025

Rollerball 50th anniversary & my top 'murder game' films

I am a few days late to the party but, nonetheless, it would be remiss of me not to comment on the 50th anniversary of Norman Jewison’s 1975 dystopian…

Jun 29 • 

Andrew Nette

25

8

May 2025

Last drinks at the Hotel Adlon

Every book in the Bernie Gunther series rated

May 30 • 

Andrew Nette

30

12

In Praise of French Connection II

Can we talk for a moment about just how good John Frankenheimer’s 1975 movie French Connection II is?

May 19 • 

Andrew Nette

27

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April 2025

Australian noir on the screen #2: Heatwave (1982)

If Money Movers (1978), the subject of the first of my two part series about little known Australian noir cinema, is unknown, the film I want to focus…

Apr 25 • 

Andrew Nette

25

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Australian noir on the screen #1: Money Movers (1978)

I briefly mentioned in my last missive about my pleasure at having written a booklet essay for the first ever blu-ray release of Chris Thomson's…

Apr 21 • 

Andrew Nette

19

5

March 2025

My favourite Michael Caine film

And, no, it's not Get Carter

Mar 27 • 

Andrew Nette

24

9

Hungry wives and evil husbands

The occult and 1960s/70s housewives on the big screen

Mar 10 • 

Andrew Nette

25

2

February 2025

Reading report for early 2025

(screw your TBR pile)

Feb 14 • 

Andrew Nette

29

10

January 2025

John le Carré double: Karla's Choice and my Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy dream cast

Over the Christmas/New Year period I read Karla’s Choice, Nick Harkaway’s take on the universe created by his late father, John le Carré.

Jan 24 • 

Andrew Nette

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