# PULP CURRY A newsletter about pulp, culture & noir - injected directly to your inbox. Page: Feed: --- ## [My new crime fiction book deal](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/my-new-crime-fiction-book-deal) _2026-08-14 · Andrew Nette_ Plus the death of Kath Pettingill and true crime on the Australian screen ## [Mackenna’s Gold (1969)](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/mackennas-gold-1969) _2026-07-18 · Andrew Nette_ Gold, ghosts and frontier violence ## [Heat and film: My highlights from the Cinema Ritrovato Festival 2026](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/heat-and-film-my-highlights-from) _2026-07-04 · Andrew Nette_ I had heard for years from friends about how good Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato Festival is. ## [The lost Parker films](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/the-lost-parker-films) _2026-06-07 · Andrew Nette_ The two film adaptations of Westlake's master thief nobody talks about ## [Down with the guilty pleasure: Appreciating Jack Cardiff’s Dark of the Sun](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/down-with-the-guilty-pleasure-appreciating) _2026-05-22 · Andrew Nette_ The concept of a guilty pleasure is up there with the word problematic as my most despised terms when it comes to cinema. ## [Matt Dillon's City of Ghosts and film as a personal time machine](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/matt-dillons-city-of-ghosts-and-film) _2026-04-26 · Andrew Nette_ I have been thinking a lot lately about the way that film can act as a personal time machine. ## [Ghost messages: Australia’s lost television horror anthology, The Evil Touch](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/ghost-messages-australias-lost-television) _2026-04-02 · Andrew Nette_ Evil Touch ## [Barbara Loden's Wanda as a neo-noir and a new book on the art of Renato Fratini](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/barbara-lodens-wanda-as-a-neo-noir) _2026-03-15 · Andrew Nette_ Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) is one of those movies that appear perennially on social media as a lost film. ## [The Only Living Pickpocket In New York](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/the-only-living-pickpocket-in-new) _2026-03-02 · Andrew Nette_ and other cultural preoccupations over a cold Berlin winter ## [Forget it, Stanley, it's Chinatown](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/forget-it-stanley-its-chinatown) _2026-02-13 · Andrew Nette_ In praise of Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VLwiuZJuJBPi) _2026-02-13 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Dead to shame: the ballad of the Asia hand](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-shame-the-ballad-of-the-asia) _2026-02-02 · Andrew Nette_ In the early nineties I lived for several years in Vientiane, the sun bleached, run down, quasi-communist capital of what was then one of the more remote countries in Asia – actually, it probably still is – Laos. ## [My Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy dream cast](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/my-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dream) _2026-01-24 · Andrew Nette_ While I work on some new Substack material, please allow me to repost one of my older and most popular posts. ## [In search of a Proletarian Bond](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/in-search-of-a-proletarian-bond) _2025-12-17 · Andrew Nette_ The first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, published in 1953, kickstarted the modern fascination with spies. ## [Hard Rain Falling](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/hard-rain-falling) _2025-12-05 · Andrew Nette_ I was in a Berlin bookshop recently and noticed a brand spanking new Penguin Modern Classics edition of Don Carpenter’s 1966 novel Hard Rain Falling. I don’t know who is overseeing the cover design on some of the Penguin Modern Classics releases, but they need a raise, because they’re work is stunning, including on the new edition of Carpenter’s book. ## [Helmut Käutner's Black Gravel and the lost decade of German cinema](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kautners-black-gravel-and) _2025-11-13 · Andrew Nette_ I have written previously here about my love for German director Helmut Käutner’s 1961 noir, Schwarzer Kies, or translated into English, Black Gravel. It is without doubt my favourite German noir and one of my favourite noirs from the period of late film noir more generally. ## [Jane Gallion and the Tao of the female smut writer](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/jane-gallion-and-the-tao-of-the-female) _2025-11-08 · Andrew Nette_ The counterculture of the late sixties and early seventies provided rich fodder for pulp writers. ## ['Under the tinsel and glitter - something ugly.'](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/under-the-tinsel-and-glitter-something) _2025-10-12 · Andrew Nette_ Australian pulp fiction's Spanish connection ## [Everything was like that. Nothing was exactly like that.](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/everything-was-like-that-nothing) _2025-09-20 · Andrew Nette_ The Baader-Meinhof gang on the big screen ## [James Coburn's Hard Contract](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/james-coburns-hard-contract) _2025-09-04 · Andrew Nette_ If he was still alive, James Coburn would’ve been 97 a few days ago. ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Sl4PzixFE8sz) _2025-09-04 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [The last good British gangster film](https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/the-last-good-british-gangster-film) _2025-07-31 · Andrew Nette_ Sexy Beast and 10 other great British gangster movies