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Month: June 2023

Point Blank: The Hunter … Haunted

  By Matt Levine June 2, 2023 June 2, 2023 A Dish Best Served Cold
Walker grimaces as psychedelic colors are projected over his face in a nightclub.

|Matt Clark| A professional thief left for dead after a job gone sour pursues the people who betrayed him and extracts his payback, no matter the collateral damage. It’s a classic hardboiled scenario and one that practically exploded from the pages of The Hunter, the first of 24… Continue reading

Tagged   John Boorman, Lee Marvin, Point Blank

A Dream is But a Dream: John Boorman’s Point Blank

  By Matt Levine June 2, 2023 June 1, 2023 A Dish Best Served Cold

|Kevin Maher| John Boorman’s 1967 fever dream Point Blank has often been cited as the catalyst for the neo-noir movement that has ebbed and flowed for more than 50 years. Adapted from the Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark) novel called The Hunter… Continue reading

Tagged   John Boorman, Lee Marvin, neo-noir, Point Blank, revenge
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