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Author: Josh Converse

+Josh Converse work has appeared in Crime Factory, Plots with Guns, Black Heart Magazine, Out Of the Gutter, and A Twist of Noir. He is the only person to have ever simultaneously held the WBO and WBC middleweight and welterweight titles without any witnesses. Josh can talk his way out of any situation, particularly when on the cusp of runaway success. In 2010, he was the recipient of Nick Tosches’ final apology. He lives and works and eats cereal in Chicago.
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The Ten Greatest Henchmen In Movie History

On July 3 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Say you’re putting together a syndicate.  One of the first things that you are going to need is somebody to take care of your light work for you when words have run out.  As a …

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The Innocence Of Morons – Sam Bacile & Cranked-Out Propaganda

On September 14 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

If you find yourself with fifteen minutes to kill this evening, you can go to YouTube and pull up the video that is currently causing murder and mayhem and destruction in the Middle East this …

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Up Jumped The New World Order – The New Rules of Satanism In Pop Music

On August 24 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Before we get too far into this, I want everybody to remember that there was a time when the members of Mötley Crüe were presumed to be dangerous servants of the Devil. I should also …

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Thawing Mr. Freeze – The Life And Death And Life Of Schwarzenegger’s Career

On August 17 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

The implications of resurrecting Arnold Schwarzenegger. For the record, I voted for Gallagher. In the Second Great American Mindfuck of the early 21st Century, also known as the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall Election, I was …

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Books Punch Your Face – The Crime Midsummer Reading List

On July 22 By Josh Converse In Book Reviews

Eight noir novels to help fill your endless summer with a sense of overwhelming dread and paranoia. Okay, so I’m the professor who wakes up three weeks before the end of the semester and hits …

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The Who, What, When, Where, And Why Of AWAKE’s Cancellation

On May 19 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

 Or, why I’ll never be fooled by NBC again. So, this is the last time that I will speak or write about Awake.  In fact, this might be the last time anybody issues any type …

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The Ten Most Dangerous Broads In Film

On April 18 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

It’s Ladies’ Night at the Complex. We’ve covered a pretty broad spectrum of shady characters over the past few months around here, but with Mother’s Day coming up in a few weeks, we felt it …

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In The Mick Of Time: 7 Best Irish-American Crime Flicks

On March 17 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

There’s always something that’s just a little dirtier about Irish crime movies.  Irish movie mobsters don’t wear silk suits and don’t tip off an impending whacking with a kiss on the cheek. In fact, in …

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LILYHAMMER Drops On Netflix

On February 7 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

I’ve been keeping an eye open for Lilyhammer since word of its over in Norway.  The complete first season of Steven Van Zandt’s sleeps-with-the-fishes-out-of-water comedy series was released onto Netflix this evening, in its eight-episode entirety.  Always here …

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5 Reasons BLADE RUNNER Should Be Left The Hell Alone

On January 7 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Ridley Scott is reportedly “moving forward aggresively in development” of a new Blade Runner project, and there should be announcement as to the specifics of the project in the opening months of the New Year, including who the …

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5 Best And Worst Network Midseason Replacements

On December 31 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

The following lists are for the increasingly ballyhooed network television midseason, which has somehow become a part of the average American’s everyday lexicon. Criminal Complex-style, of course.  So you know, guns and feds and spies …

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Death Around the Corner: MENACE II SOCIETY Review

On October 26 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Um…yeah. So,  the thought came to me that it might be appropriate to have a section of the site devoted to the “gangsta” movies that began in the early nineties with flicks like Boyz N The …

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Is It a Crime? – A Look Ahead to NBC’s GRIMM

On October 25 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

I’m a natural skeptic.  Not an unusual or profound thing for my generation, but that’s what I am.  In growing older, I find my tastes funneling down into increasingly ordered grooves from which I rarely …

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