Watched: 03/18/2022 Format:  BluRay Viewing:  Second Decade:  2010's Director:  Taylor Hackford By now, I assume y'all know I'm ...

Watched:  05/31/2021 Format:  TCM on DVR Viewing:  Unknown Decade:  1960's Director:  John Boorman It's been some time since I'd...

On Monday around 3:07 Pacific Time (I was flying back from Berkeley, CA), I finished the final Parker novel by Richard Stark, Dirty Mone...

Ask The Parrot (2006) is the penultimate Parker novel.  Frankly, I'd been dreading hitting this book based on the title alone, whic...

This was the Parker novel I accidentally skipped when I grabbed Nobody Runs Forever off the shelf and plowed through that one.  While...

I'd been wanting to see The Split (1968) for a while.  Based upon one of my favorite Parker novels, The Seventh , it also starred J...

My mistake - packing for our Seattle trip, I just reached onto my shelf and grabbed this book without checking the reading order.  So, a...

While I'm glad that Stark came back to try Parker again in the 90's, and then, with this novel released around 2001 (and a few mo...

Just yesterday we heard that Darwyn Cooke had entered palliative care in the last stages of cancer, and by the time I went to bed, the i...

I've seen a few adaptations of the Richard Stark-penned series of crime novels starring heist-man, Parker.   Point Blank (great), P...

Way back in 1999, I remember this movie coming out, but I didn't really care, because I wasn't much of a Mel Gibson fan.  And even s...

As much as the folks write the introductions in these books want to say otherwise, when Stark came back to Parker after decades of being awa...

The second of the "Parker is back" novels of the 1990's, and by this time it's pretty clear heists are a damn hard thin...

Author Richard Stark took off a couple of decades between Butcher's Moon (1974)  and The Comeback (1997) ,  bringing master-thief back o...

I've been plowing through more of the Parker and Allan Grofield novels by Richard Stark.  As much as I write here, I can't imagine h...

This evening I went to the gym, watched an episode of Mad Men Season 5, did some pre-ordering of comics, and got pretty far along with the f...

This is what I like about a Parker novel.  On Saturday I had a rainy day, and while I'd started the book at the doctor's office on T...

"Civilized people need to follow rules.  These are mine: I don't steal from people who can't afford it and I don't hurt p...

This is the 9th Parker novel, and while I enjoyed the 8th novel,  The Handle , it didn't feel as strong as prior efforts.  With a dozen ...

At the conclusion of the Parker novel The Handle , Parker and Alan Grofield have landed in Mexico City with Grofield licking his wounds and ...