Barry Bowe's Blog, page 67
February 7, 2020
Raymond Reddington Arrested
Raymond Reddington Arrested Hong Kong authorities arrest FBI Fugitive Raymond Reddington in Episode 9 of Season 2 of The Blacklist. Which is one of my favorite TV Crime Series. So it’s only natural for me to pay homage to The Blacklist in my new crime novel The Dead Stripper. The release date for The Dead […]
February 6, 2020
Dirty Harry Logo
Dirty Harry Logo In Dirty Harry a madman calling himself “the Scorpio Killer” menaces the city and tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. I cut the video right there because, in case you never noticed it before, that’s the background […]
R.I.P. Kirk Douglas
R.I.P. Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas died yesterday (2/5/2020) at the age of 103. In the sixty-two years between 1946 and 2008 he accumulated 96 acting credits and was a star among stars. I saw lots of his movies but the one best remembered is Town Without Pity. In that movie four American soldiers are stationed […]
Death Wish 2018
Death Wish 2018 The 2018 edition of Death Wish shifts locations from New York City to Chicago. Paul Kersey is sill the vigilante’s name but he’s now a trauma surgeon instead of an architect. In both movies, after a brutal attack on his family, Paul Kersey embarks on a mission to seek justice. I rarely […]
February 5, 2020
If Cleavage Was Brains
If Cleavage Was Brains “If cleavage was brains she’d be a genius.” My main female character (Jess) and her best friend (Margo) are having drinks during happy hour at The Grog in Bryn Mawr. Jess decides to throw a party. She’s wondering who to invite and the name of Mila Kunis pops up. A small […]
Die Hard Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance In Die Hard with a Vengeance John McClane (Bruce Willis) and a Harlem store owner (Samuel L. Jackson) are targeted by German terrorist Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) in New York City, where Gruber plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building. It’s a 1995 movie and a perfect example of why […]
February 4, 2020
Sex and the City
Sex and the City Last week in “Overlooking Central Park” I mentioned the main character in The Dead Stripper taking an excursion to New York City. The purpose of Steve Piasecki’s trip was to meet two literary agents and convince one of them to represent him. I took such a trip twenty-seven years ago for […]
Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye Eye for an Eye is a 1996 movie where a man rapes and murders a woman’s daughter but the court fails to keep him behind bars. So the mother seeks her own form of justice. It took twenty-two years for Hollywood to come up with a female version of 1974’s Death […]
February 3, 2020
Free Detective Stories
True Detective True Detective was an American true crime magazine published from 1924 to 1995. It initiated the true crime magazine genre and during its peak from the 1940s to the early 1960s it sold millions of copies and spawned numerous imitators such as Official Detective, Inside Detective, Detective Cases, and Master Detective to […]
Death Wish 1974
Death Wish Death Wish is a (1974) movie in which New York City architect Paul Kersey becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks and then he goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark. Charles Bronson is one of my favorite actors. Back in 1990 […]
