Category Archives: Other People’s Pulp
Death and Ghosts in Czarist Russia: Detective Anna
Did you know you can watch Russian TV shows, subtitled in English, on Youtube? I did not, but yesterday a contact suggested to me a Russian series from 2016, called Detective Anna (or, alternatively, Anna the detective) , and by googling I found it all on Youtube, subtitled, for free.
So I watched the first two episodes, and it was quite fun.
As usual during periods of intensive writing I like to watch a TV series or a movie in the evenings (you may have noticed a lot of posts about serials, recently, on Karavansara), and it looks like Anna Mironova will keep me company in the next few years.
So, what are we talking about…
Continue readingOne down, one to go
And one of the proposals was approved.
Boy that was fast!
And now it’s research and outlining time.
It might also be a good opportunity to re-watch and review a few old movies before bedtime. It’s, you know, for documentation purposes…
Morocco (1930)
Today is Joseph von Sternberg’s birthday, so it feels right that I spent one hour and a half last night rewatching his Morocco, an exotic melodrama featuring Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou.
The film was shot in 1930 and caused quite a stir, for a number of reasons.
While not my favorite Dietrich/von Sternberg collaboration, it’s still worth a look.
And despite the desert location, this is probably not a Tits & Sand movie, but… who knows?
The plot: cynical but maybe not so cynical cabaret entertainer falls in love with cheeky American legionnaire and refuses the advances of a more settled, wealthy gentleman. Passions flare, tragedy ensues.
Continue readingSky Pirates of the Mediterranean
Another gift for my birthday (my brother was feeling generous), another pulp roleplaying game campaign for my collection, and one that really clicks all the right buttons. And so, after spending a few hours checking the material, why not do a proper review here on Karavansara?
After all it features pirates, biplanes and airships, an alternate history of post-WW1 Europe, and enough nifty tricks to leave everybody happy.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Scott Rhymer’s Sky Pirates of the Mediterranean.
Samuel Becket, Private Eye
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
It’s the Great Villain Blogathon, an orgy of evil and nefariousness hosted by the blogs Silver Screenings, Shadows & Satin and Speakeasy. So please direct your browser to one of these blogs – or all three of them, why not? – and check out a plethora of posts about the bad guys of the movies – because we know it, right? A good hero is meaningless unless he’s faced with a good villain.
Once you have checked out the other posts, be sure to come back here, because we have a great villain waiting in the wings, and we found him in the 8th dimension nonetheless.
So get ready for a close encounter wit Dr. Emilio Lizardo, alias Lord John Whorfin. And no kiddin’.
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