Fast & Furious 6 Theatrical Trailer
Here’s the theatrical trailer for Fast & Furious 6.
My guess is if you enjoyed the previous F&F movies, you’ll dig this one.
Hinkson, Beetner & Robinson
Look what was waiting for me when I got home tonight…
The Posthumous Man by Jake Hinkson
When Elliot Stilling killed himself, he thought his troubles were over. Then the ER doctors revived him. It’s infatuation at first sight when he meets his nurse, Felicia Vogan, a strange young woman with a weakness for sad sacks and losers. After she helps Elliot escape from the hospital, she takes him back to her place. He’s happy to go with her, even when she leads him straight to a gang planning a million dollar heist. Does Felicia just want Elliot to protect her from the outfit’s psychotic leader, Stan the Man? Or is Elliot being set up to take the hard fall? One thing’s for sure: if he’s going to survive this long night of deceit and murder, Elliot will have to finally face himself and his own dark past.
One Too Many Blows to the Head by Eric Beetner
Kansas City, 1939. One story from two points of view: the hunter and the hunted. Ray Ward – seeking revenge for his brother’s death in the boxing ring. Detective Dean Fokoli – hot on a killer’s trail.Ray’s hunt takes him underground into Kansas City’s criminal nightlife. Dean Fokoli lives there full time but he’s on the run from his own troubles. Two men racing forward to collide like a knockout punch.A razor-edged story of revenge, redemption and what happens when you confront the ghosts of the past.
From the creator of Thuglit.com–DIRTY WORDS The first collection from award-winning short story writer, Todd Robinson. Featuring: SO LONG JOHNNIE SCUMBAG—selected for The Year’s Best Writing 2003 by Writer’s Digest. The Derringer Award nominated short, ROSES AT HIS FEET THE LONG COUNT—selected as a Notable Story of the Year in Best American Mystery Stories 2005. PLUS eight more tales of in-your-face crime fiction.
Dig Two Graves by Eric Beetner
Dig Two Graves is a novella-length piece about Val, an ex-con who thinks he has figured out the trick to continuing his bank robbing life without ever getting caught. Except then he gets caught.
It’s not his plan that backfires, oh no. There’s a rat somewhere and Val is pretty damn sure who it is. Ernesto, his prison lover who has joined him on the outside as his partner in bank robbery.
Val stalks the city night on the hunt for Ernesto to exact revenge for breaking the ultimate criminal code: you don’t rat out a partner.
A Bouquet of Bullets by Eric Beetner
From Award-winning short story writer Eric Beetner comes a collection of hardboiled crime tales about losers, punks and wanna-be criminals. These gritty stories bleed and sweat all over the page, but always with a pitch black sense of humor. For fans of Victor Gischler and Duane Swierczynski as much as Cornell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler these crime tales represent the new wave in pulp writers at its best. Winner of the 2012 Stalker award for Most Underrated Author, a finalist in the Derringer Awards, the Watery Grave International and the Million Writers Award, Eric Beetner’s short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Needle Magazine, Crimefactory, A Twist Of Noir, Beat To A Pulp, Pulp Pusher, Powder Burn Flash, Darkest Before Dawn, Thrillers, Killers N Chillers, Flash Fiction Offensive and more.
The toughest part will be deciding which to read first.
Meet Crime Writer/Reviewer Eric Beetner
I first learned about Eric Beetner from his 60 Second Book Reviews blog.
Beetner and I like the same type of books [crime fiction]. His reviews, for the books that I’ve read, are directly in line with my thoughts. So, if Beetner likes it, it’s a good bet that I will as well.
Then I learned Eric Beetner was a writer of crime fiction and his books were all getting 5 star reviews. Now I was intrigued. So I bookmarked Beetner’s blog.
Next I discovered this trailer for Beetner’s The Devil Doesn’t Want Me. Nice.
So the other night I broke down and ordered Beetner’s Dig Two Graves; One Too Many Blows to the Head and A Bouquet of Bullets.
Well played, Eric Beetner. Well played.
Are Drive-Ins Making a Comeback?
It’s no secret that I love drive-in theaters. Most people my age, do… or did. I say did because there aren’t many left [drive-ins, not people my age].
The fact that there aren’t many drive-ins around these days is no surprise. The year I was born, 1958, was the peak for drive-in theaters in the United States. Since then, drive-ins have been on the decline. But, believe it or not, a little over 350 drive-in theaters are still hanging in there.
The real surprising news is that some of these remaining drive-in theaters are upgrading to digital technology. Could this be the start of a comeback?
My guess is no. But I’d love it if I was wrong.
Jerry Gaylord Goes a Round with Rocky
Jerry Gaylord aka The Franchize makes his second, but not his last appearance in my Stallone Sketch Gallery with his take on Sly as Rocky.
I highly recommend Jerry to all sketch collectors. He quickly responds to e-mails, his turnaround time is quick and he packages the art to ensure it arrives safely.
To check out more of Jerry’s art, head here. – Craig
New “Riddick” Photo
Here’s the most recent Vin Diesel posting of himself in character as Riddick.
Riddick opens September 6, 2013!
Can This Dog Solve the Black Dahlia Murder Mystery
On February 3, 2013, The Daily Beast posted Can This Dog Solve the Black Dahlia Homicide? by Christine Pelisek. If you have any interest at all in the world famous 70 year old unsolved murder, then you should check out the article. Here are a few tidbits…
No one has ever been charged with the gruesome slaying, despite years of police work, nearly 50 discredited confessions, and intense media attention…
The most intriguing theory, though, may be the one posited by Steve Hodel, whose says his own father did the deed.
… his father, George Hodel, a surgeon, killed Short after a romance between the two turned ugly. He also believes his father killed close to a dozen women in the 1940s in his Hollywood home and then gruesomely posed them in different locales around the city.
The elder Hodel, it has been revealed, was indeed a suspect in the Short murder, but his son says he was never caught out of a combination of high-powered friends (who may have had dirt on the police) and inept detective work.
Last November, Hodel joined forces with former California police detective Paul Dostie and Buster, his rambunctious 9-year-old cadaver-sniffing black Labrador, for the first-ever forensic search at Hodel’s former home.
Buster was turned loose to search for scents related to human decomposition—and he perked up, or “alerted” as Dostie calls it, at several potential clues in the basement. Soil samples were taken and results are expected next week.
Check out the article for the full story!
“You Can Call Me Mud”
“You can call me Mud.”
Into the White: WW2 Survival Film
I just recently saw this trailer for Into the White.
Other than Into the White looks like it could be very good, I don’t know anything about it.
Of course, that should be enough.
The Only Thing That Would Prevent Me From Seeing Fast & Furious 6
I’m a Vin Diesel fan.
I’m a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson fan.
I’m a fan of the Fast & Furious movies.
I can’t imagine me not seeing Fast & Furious 6 in a theater…
… unless it is as boring as this teaser poster.
German “Bullet to the Head” Poster
Here’s the German poster for Bullet to the Head. You know, I am diggin’ this one. – Craig
Gravedigger is Back!
If you like great crime fiction… if you love fantastic art… if you’re of age and not offended by adult language / situations, then click over and check out Gravedigger by Chris Mills and Rick Burchett.
You can thank me later.
Jon Riggle and Rambo are Back!
Jon Riggle is back with his take on Sly as Rambo. To check out more of Jon’s art, head on over here. – Craig
France & Olympus Have Fallen
This French poster for Olympus Has Fallen is terrible. I mean really, really bad. It looks like something you’d see on a direct-to-video release that had no stars or budget for promotion.
The US poster is so much better.
Iron Man 3 Poster – I Like It, I Like It Not
Do you like this poster for Iron Man 3?
I keep going back and forth about whether I like it or not.
I like the idea of Iron Man being knocked out of the sky. How will he survive? Who did this to him? The painting is cool.
It kind of bugs me that his helmet is gone and that his metal armour is flaking/peeling away. Wouldn’t his face do the same?
Maybe I’m just picking nits.
If you like the poster well enough to want to see a larger version, thanks to IMPAwards, you can.
