Peter Dragovich

Pleased to say that the God Is a Killer audiobook (narrated by me and produced by @buriedfashion) is now available on Audible

My top crime novels of 2025. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/favori…

@ProfANSmith Related to the bullshit of having a lousy trip. I like travel quite a bit but lousy service can really define my whole memory of the trip for me.

@nerdofnoir Touched? Thanks. I figured I’d piss off damn near everybody but needed to write it anyway because holding it in hurt worse.

Touched by this travel story from @ProfANSmith anthonyneilsmith.substack.com/p/home-from-fr…

@KelbyLosackBRB I like when Kevin advises the old weirds. He tells the salt and shovel man to talk to his son (“What if he doesn’t wanna speak to me?!”) which is wild but then in 2 it gets even crazier when he tells the homeless pigeon lady she needs to put herself out there, make some friends.

I became familiar with Peter Greene by way of the films Laws of Gravity (1992) and Clean, Shaven (1993) and, because I was a young guy, watching these movies, I assumed this was a type of actor that existed, and there were other guys like that. Turns out there was just the one.

This exact conversation happened in every middle school cafeteria for decades

Got a new Stack: links to buy all EIGHT of the books I've had published this year, plus a plea to get back into European markets, and some Christmas travel plans. Santa's watching. anthonyneilsmith.substack.com/p/merry-and-ha…

Really busted my ass yesterday

I spoke to Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet about their killer new film, Reflection in a Dead Diamond ahead of its release today. thefilmstage.com/reflection-in-…

BLOOD SIMPLE never becomes any less towering even after who knows how many rewatches. A debut every bit as deep and sophisticated and just fucking dialed in as CITIZEN KANE.

Big news for Minnesota movie nerds bringmethenews.com/minnesota-life…

@luso_brendan Have you heard the Good News?

Watching my favorite actor, Mickey Rooney.

John Huston is an infinitely more complex screen artist than David Lean. He can be far worse than Lean because he's careless and sloppy and doesn't have all those safety nets of solid craftsmanship spread under him. (1966)

Boorman is such an aestheticizing director—alienated, inhuman, yet the more gripping for the distance he keeps—that DELIVERANCE held audiences by its mannered, ghastly-lovely cumulative power. It had the formality of a nightmare. (1973)

Finally watched EEPHUS. A weird meatball. My favorite movie of the year so far.

Can these men avoid raisin?

the antelope jackrabbit's Mom wrote this page

EDEN really gripped me. You got pretty people (a few very naked!) doing backstabby Lord of the Flies shit in the Galapagos and Ron Howard pushing against good taste in his unwinking (though often sickeningly funny) presentation of some primo cinematic melodrama.