The Violent World of Parker

This YouTube video from director Jim Jarmusch is the first few minutes of an extra on the long-overdue Criterion Collection release of Point Blank.

Longtime visitors may notice that the site has had a minor facelift.

As you may not have noticed because you’ve given up and stopped visiting, The Violent World of Parker has been on hiatus for awhile.

To avoid any confusion, I will note upfront that this is not the movie called The Actor directed by Richard Blake that was released earlier this year and is currently available on streaming services (although that one looks like it might be fun).

One of the very best items in the archives of this site is an interview with Donald Westlake from a 1988 issue of The Armchair Detective.

A little while back, I sent you to a video from Alan Berry at The Tape Archive built around Quentin Tarantino’s discussion of Point Blank and The Outfit in the book Cinema Speculation.

Just over a year ago, Quentin Tarantino published a book entitled Cinema Speculation.

A younger Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit.

As some of you frustrated readers know, I’ve never understood the appeal of Twitter, so while I do use it to inform people of new posts here and link the occasional interesting article, I don’t check the @worldofparker account regularly.

After an absence of over a decade, I return to the SFFaudio podcast to discuss Brother and Sister, a smut novel by Donald Westlake (as Edwin West) that is about exactly what it sounds like it’s about.