It's hard to overstate the pulpy absurdity of Uber's 2017.
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It's a fun, pulpy adventure that you'll regret procrastinating on.
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They sound like the ingredients of a pulpy thriller: Bigamy.
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What motivates Herr Director to make this pulpy horror flick?
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The cacao fruit was ripe in September, sweet and pulpy.
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The drama of the pulpy action-thriller goes on from there.
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This saucy, pulpy 18th-century drama, starring Aidan Turner as Capt.
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It's basically a pulpy detective novel with extra spookiness for flavor.
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It's pulpy and earnest, like an homage to a forgotten genre.
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At its best, The Walking Dead is a pulpy, involving show.
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Unlike the films, which are pulpy trash, the soundtracks are credible.
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They're lychee-sized fruit with a pulpy flesh on a large pit.
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The sixth episode of Westworld was a throwback to pulpy network dramas.
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So when I say "fun," I mean sort of pulpy, you know?
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It's the pulpy center of love-maintenance that we avoid at all cost.
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The prosecutor with something to hide is something out of a pulpy crime novel.
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The film is a total foul-mouthed pulpy romp and doesn't apologize for it.
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" There are the savvy song choices, including rarities like Marvin Gaye's pulpy "Purple Snowflakes.
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Truth be told, Jett is maybe a little too pulpy for its own good.
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But Gugino knows exactly how to make Jett's kind of pulpy, hardboiled dialogue sing.
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Still, I wouldn't mind seeing some space carved out for these kinds of pulpy adventures.
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He is lurid, pulpy, and prone to pushing facts as far as they can go.
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Coolly photographed by Steve Gainer, "Mayhem" embraces its pulpy title with fighting-and-fornicating glee.
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Footage is cut and narrated to make the material as pulpy and sensationalistic as possible.
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Garrison's bass is turned up rather high, giving the entire session a pulpy, magnetic aura.
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Better Call Saul is not a grand, pulpy vision in the way its parent series was.
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Avengers of the Moon goes back to the pulpy world of Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future stories.
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Everybody expects Yakuza 0 to be a pulpy action game with slick beat-'em-up mechanics.
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This appealing monster is made of a dark-brown pulpy material (insulation) collaged to the brocade.
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A soapy, pulpy murder drama that doesn't even tell you who dies for weeks and weeks?
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This creates a distinctive pulpy tinge that ultimately sets the show apart from its parent series.
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Created by Steven Spielberg in the 222s, the pulpy, star-studded original was an expensive flop.
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Ms. Kennedy is susceptible to the pulpy appeal of such fare, and equally contemptuous of it.
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This network's latest pulpy original movie features a dangerous love triangle and sexual obsession (of course).
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Big Little Lies, around its fifth episode, transitioned from a sudsy, pulpy melodrama into something more serious.
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It is still a pulpy good-vs-evil adventure yarn about comic-book archetypes punching each other.
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The end of Civil War is surprisingly complex on an emotional level, while remaining broad and pulpy.
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Gossip Girl was a fun, pulpy delight, and Blair Waldorf's shenanigans were at the heart of it.
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In the warmer months, he sells raspados (shaved ice) with pulpy syrups that he makes from scratch.
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"Castle Rock" isn't exactly reinventing the wheel, but it's a fun, pulpy thriller with excellent mood lighting.
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My prosthetic lip is the real terror, a pulpy mass protruding into the warm Florida night air.
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Perhaps no show fits that description better than Bryan Fuller's pulpy take on the Hannibal Lecter mythos.
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This original movie has all the ingredients of a pulpy Lifetime thriller: histrionics, crime and sexual obsession.
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When I did, she pointed to a wooden box on legs filled with a wet, pulpy mass.
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Even when it's on the pulpy side, the visual violence in The Ghost of Gaudí is imaginative.
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But I have to admire The Americans for sticking to its non-pulpy guns to the very end.
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Its pulpy pop-cultural credibility is inseparable from its honest, brutal assessment of the state of the world.
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I engaged in pulpy detective-novel antics on a sepia-hued train full of wannabe ID-thief crows.
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Minimalism surrenders entirely in the bathroom, papered in a pulpy collage of posters from pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema.
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It's a pulpy psychological drama with a madwoman in the attic, and a conventional staging could be deadly.
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But no public figure would go further than that, given the genre's reputation for being puerile and pulpy.
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Soon the bassist Joe Martin and the drummer Nasheet Waits are tumbling forth with a pulpy swing feel.
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JS: Uncut Gems was a kind of pulpy, genre-oriented movie, but we had no experience in genre.
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"Corp + Anam" is pulpy and pretty rough around the edges, with variable performances, but its energy is undeniable.
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"The Beguiled" remakes a pulpy early-'70s study in sexual hysteria into an arch melodrama of beleaguered femininity.
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It feels strange for a show to be audaciously pulpy while occasionally diving into the sober and somber.
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The Eternaut isn't without the hyperbole we typically associate with pulpy genre yarns and hallowed television anthology series.
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In addition to being a pulpy bit of supernatural gothic drama, Penny Dreadful is also a show for bookworms.
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Like a tall glass of OJ, Morning Show is energizingly bright, tangily pulpy — and freshly squeezed from the headlines.
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So far, Hot Summer Nights looks like a great mix of awkward teen comedy with a pulpy crime story.
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He drawls and croons in a pulpy, guttural timbre, his delivery mischievous, sensual or moony, but always thoroughly relaxed.
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Game of Thrones is pulpy and sordid, a story of increasingly absurd events happening to larger-than-life characters.
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It looks a bit like Black Hawk Down meets Ghostbusters, and hopefully it'll live up to that pulpy premise.
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The aim of the podcast was to channel the pulpy bombast of the very people they wanted to discuss.
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"Unsolved" is equal parts appealingly pulpy and workmanlike, sometimes paced like a procedural and sometimes like a prestige drama.
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Ms. Branch now lives in Brooklyn, but the record bears the pulpy, melodic sound print of her former home.
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Some criticized "S-Town" for sidestepping the pulpy tale of murder and corruption teased by its cryptic prerelease marketing.
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He embraces the pulpy tone of Pizzolatto's dialogue, and his scenes with Farrell are some of the series's best.
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Compare it with something like Breaking Bad, another series that knew how to blend important themes with pulpy thrills.
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As with The New Order, however, The New Colossus' serious commentary seems ultimately written in service of its pulpy action.
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A pulpy answer to the Oscar-nominated "Room", "10 Cloverfield Lane" is almost all set in one breezeblock-lined bunker.
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As Adina Hoffman says, the style is all over the place—veering from modernist free association to pulpy bodice-ripping.
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Season 2 represents a falling-off from the pulpy highs of Season 1, however, at least in the early episodes.
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The list is mostly books by white and African-American authors, ranging from obscure literary fiction to pulpy popular thrillers.
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In Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, the pulpy premise was spun out into an Oscar-winning fairy tale.
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Its pulpy plot has plenty of twists and turns, but its raison d'être is a bundle of high-concept action scenes.
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The latest instalments under this pulpy premise explore, with mixed results, what it means to resist—or collaborate with—an occupier.
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It's also pulpy and nationalistic, with heroic Indian soldiers and cackling Pakistani villains who wouldn't be out of place in Sgt.
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Jolene scowled at the floating red glob in the toilet, veins reaching out from its center, resembling a pulpy root ball.
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If they can bring the harsh noise into tune, they might find the harmony between historical drama and pulpy crime thriller.
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Drugs, money, and hookers kick off filmmaker Saman Kesh's new short—a strong start, which quickly becomes a delightfully pulpy bloodfest.
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If it's just a genre, strictly speaking, a "Nordic noir" is a dark, pulpy crime story, set in an unusual location.
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Greenpoint Beer & Ale's Instant Credibility (7.8 percent A.B.V.) punches with aggressive bitterness and an undercurrent of pulpy orange and mango nectar.
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It's Lagos noir — pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan courtesy of the narrator, Ayoola's horrified sister Korede.
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"Melodrama" bristles with pulpy romance and pulpier romantic disaster, rendered by a performer not content with the usual language they inspire.
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For a game that markets itself as a pulpy, violent throwback, it sure features way more character moments and internal monologues.
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After blending pre-soaked almonds and water with desired flavors, the resulting pulpy mixture has to be strained and then strained again.
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Only the fish — slabs of carp, deep-fried and sloshed with a pulpy mix of garlic and cilantro — was a spongy disappointment.
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The shows are known for their action-packed narratives, gripping story arcs, pulpy relationships, and, of course, terrifically good-looking lead actors.
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Naturally, the TV business is investing in this untapped space between HBO and NCIS, and anthologies in other pulpy genres are forthcoming.
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Sprouse explained that season 2, announced just weeks after the show's premiere, will play up the pulpy, noir aspects of the show.
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The obvious appeal of this CBS series, which returns for an abbreviated fifth and final season on Tuesday, is pulpy and visceral.
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It makes everything blunter and more explicit, almost pulpy at times; among other things, we learn Offred's true name, June, right away.
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We get to try to tackle these issues in a way that's thoughtful even in regards to something pulpy and revenge driven.
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We get to try to tackle these issues in a way that's thoughtful even in regards to something pulpy and revenge driven.
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The show will continue to alternate between everyday domestic melodrama and a twisted, pulpy take on modern organized crime in Middle America.
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It's a dive into the politics of parenting in Monterey, a pulpy look at how high school melodrama can carry on into adulthood.
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If it was printed on pulpy paper, and had a soft-focus drawing of a youngish person on the cover, I was in.
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Each on-screen death is as inventive as it is gruesome: skulls pop, legs snap, entire bodies explode into a pulpy, red mist.
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ONE of the most striking things about Steven Soderbergh's proudly pulpy new thriller, "Unsane", is that the end credits last about 20 seconds.
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And while the lyrics were basically indecipherable, a cursory glance at the liner notes felt like jumping into a pulpy sci-fi film.
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It's John Waters by way of Douglas Sirk, layered with the pulpy psychoanalysis of the hefty airport-lounge paperback it's been adapted from.
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Is that what attracted you to comics, or did you like the pure, pulpy comic and wanted to do something else with it?
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Under the name M. Barnard, she published the stories she called "blood & thunder tales" — pulpy, gothic fantasies of vengeance and horror and incest.
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In an interview with Vice, Mafia III's senior writer Charles Webb regularly refers both to the story's pulpy inspirations and its larger ambition.
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For those who haven't watched, it's a pulpy cop procedural with a penchant for over-the-top, almost self-parodically implausible plot twists.
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It's simple, straightforward, and pulpy — this show is very much a child of the '80s, from the bright colors to the funky hair.
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Also reviewed this week: children's tales from Jim Henson's Labyrinth, a pulpy sci-fi throwback, and an incredible indie comic about modern life.
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The franchise, based on the popular video games from Capcom, traffics in crude characterizations, hackneyed storytelling, and pulpy sci-fi and horror clichés.
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I grew up reading my father's science-fiction collection, a huge collection of those pulpy mass-market paperbacks from the '50s and '60s.
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And every single one of the pulpy elements I've listed above turns out to have a completely logical explanation that mutes it somewhat.
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The tree-climbing goats love the pulpy fruit of the argan tree, but there's some debate about how they get rid of its seeds.
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"Iceman" is an earnest yet pulpy adventure yarn in which a bow and arrow can seem as frightening and deadly as a sniper's rifle.
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It's part of the game's weird, slightly silly sci-fi milieu, along with things like the pulpy space opera novels scattered around crew quarters.
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It's weird as hell, and a brilliant start for a pulpy revenge saga — created by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and a mostly female creative team.
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Yes, Riverdale leans into pulpy elements like the town's current masked murderer and its brewing feud between the north and south side, but this?
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These pulpy stories feel lived in and immediate, because Finch's designers have turned them into little fidget objects, and placed them into your hand.
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She uses marmalades to flavor drinks because you can get more out of the fruit that way and use pulpy bits as a garnishes.
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On the other hand, saying violent shooters, or pulpy video games in general, shouldn't incorporate the injustices whites have committed upon blacks is naive.
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She spent five years working on the novel, a pulpy theological thriller about a Roman Catholic priest who becomes mixed up with demonic forces.
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The slogan no doubt carries the clang of a hackneyed marketing catchphrase — a pulpy declaration of encroaching, Epcot-like, science-fictional kitsch ("Tomorrow, Today").
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 89%What critics said: "This season of Castle Rock is pulpy in a way season one didn't attempt.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 89%What critics said: "This season of Castle Rock is pulpy in a way season one didn't attempt.
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But, as Rachel, she was a subtly influential force on a pulpy legal drama that quietly had one of the most diverse casts on television.
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Though they're filtered through a Hitchcockian plot of gaslighting and deception, both women's emotional motivations tell a more mature story than the pulpy content belies.
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If handled well, the team could leverage the complexity (and familiarity) of the 60s to create something powerful while still being a pulpy crime yarn.
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Men in crime novels by John Grisham and Tom Clancy disappear or fake their own deaths regularly, like their cultural predecessors in pulpy noir paperbacks.
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According to executive producer Greg Berlanti at the INTV conference, per Deadline, Katy Keene is an entirely different breed of show from the pulpy, soapy Riverdale.
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The stereotype of a Kindle Unlimited author is someone who is "pumping out short, pulpy reads," in the words of best-selling romance writer Zoe York.
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Much later, after his body had dissolved into a pulpy mass of pain and he could barely see out of one eye, everything finally went dark.
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The researchers cracked open the teeth, and extracted DNA from the pulpy, blood vessel-rich tissue inside that was protected through the centuries by the enamel.
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace is not, in other words, the pulpy recreation of Versace's luxe life and shocking murder that many assumed it would be.
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It looked like a pulpy mass of flesh and blood now, but A. recognized it immediately: He jumped into the water and embraced Nadia's naked corpse.
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Even still, the first X-Men film still feels light and pulpy compared to the 10-ton epics both Marvel and DC have rolled out since.
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Both movies are based on pulpy page-turners, but only Gone Girl understands how to both wring out suspense and also dig into the characters' heads.
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Since it only cost $1.95, I bought the novel and a few other pulpy relics from John K. King Books, a cavernous literary landmark in Detroit.
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Mr. Polanski delivers "this pulpy fun at such a high level that 'The Ghost Writer' is irresistible, no matter how obvious the twists," Ms. Dargis added.
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The creators of "War Paint" appreciate the pulpy appeal of such cinematic fare, in which exaggerated artificial surfaces and badinage conceal ravenous ambition and broken hearts.
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Behind the mill were some new warehouses, where an initiative to turn bagasse, the pulpy sugar refuse left over from sugarcane, into paper is now underway.
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Karyn Kusama ("Girlfight") directs this pulpy, savage drama with undertones of "Dirty Harry" and "Heat," and starring Sebastian Stan, Tatiana Maslany and a kick-ass shootout.
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The most common is the maracuya, which has a pulpy sour fruit inside its papery yellow skin, and an inner membrane reminiscent of a Koosh ball.
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Then there's "11386," a shimmying melody that begins with a wide-flung first section — pulpy chords resounding from Garrison's bass — then a passage of beaming swing.
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Many chapters end with a cliffhanger, which adds a cinematic quality but veers into pulpy true crime when it feels like there's more pathos at stake.
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So why did Ms. Meyer decide to write a pulpy spy thriller, an ultramasculine genre that is notoriously tough to break into, particularly for female authors?
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Endgame may be a pulpy comic book on the big screen, but the emotional connections that Marvel fans forged with its characters are earnest and telling.
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Fan Bingbing One of China's most popular actresses has seemingly disappeared without a trace, but the attention to her absence isn't one of pulpy tabloid intrigue.
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Z: The Beginning of Everything is a pulpy take on the legendary Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, her relationship with the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, and everything in between.
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You've got an alien origin story, relationship drama, tense alien-human relations, and what look like a string of pulpy mysteries at the heart of it all.
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But you've probably never seen one quite like this—an 80-minute "mixtape" that traipses through the pulpy, dark, and psychedelic moods of 80s and 90s entertainment.
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But that's my favorite mode for this bunch — light, pulpy angst, still firmly tied to a semi-mundane world, with a climax that's more flash than crunch.
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Unbeknownst, by ShadeJackrabbit, is a sort of mash-up of the endless clicker genre (think Cow Clicker or Cookie Clicker) and a stylish, pulpy noir detective story.
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"It never quite works, reading this sort of pulpy, street book in translation," the critic Jenny Turner wrote of "Apocalypse Baby" in The London Review of Books.
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The pulpy premise of the new series is that a criminal steals a time machine with the intent of destroying the United States by changing its past.
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In Edgar Rice Burroughs's pulpy 1912 novella "A Princess of Mars," a medieval Martian civilization is all that remains of a previously hyper-advanced, technologically sophisticated world.
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There were a few complaints about pulpy juices, herbs, fruit, and even small slivers of ice getting stuck in the strainer and making it hard to pour.
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Last month, when the Syfy Channel cancelled its pulpy space-opera show, Dark Matter, the show's creator, Joseph Mallozzi, immediately began working on a way to save it.
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Change Agent by Daniel Suarez A couple of years ago, Daniel Suarez wrote a fun, pulpy techno thriller called Influx that I had a lot of fun reading.
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"Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash", his third novel, sees the author reining in the surrealism to deliver a pulpy, visceral tale of sex, violence and comeuppance.
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Bad Times at the El Royale collects a bunch of big, pulpy characters, mixes them together, and then throws it all into what looks like a tense chaos.
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At times the show is a bit pulpy, especially when it delves into the mommy wars taking place at Otter Bay elementary, or the murder at its center.
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As long as the animals are free, the world is anarchic and wild and pulpy — and then, as they are returned to captivity, the world domesticates itself again.
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His breakthrough film was "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," a breakneck remake of James Toback's "Fingers," a pulpy crime story about a gifted musician in free fall.
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Like the perfunctory stories of the run-and-gun shooters it cribs aspects of design from, it's pulpy enough that it never really needs to be taken seriously.
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The first season, we did an episode where Jake meets an ex-detective — a pulpy fiction writer who's his hero — and is following him around and loving him.
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With tongue firmly planted in cheek, The Love Witch pays tribute to movies and pulpy novels from days gone by, and that is the source of its charm.
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The percussive, pulpy violence of the opening is replaced by a close-up of a single blade flashing down and a bright streak of blood across a face.
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The words "Volume One" imply that further "volumes" will follow, and chapter-heading intertitles in the film accord the pulpy subject matter greater literary gravitas than it deserves.
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Here was Angela (Geena Davis, having great fun with a story so pulpy), a mother worried her eldest daughter, Katherine (Brianne Howey), might be possessed by a demon.
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Directed by Richard Shepard — best-known for the pulpy dramedies "The Matador" and "Dom Hemingway" — "The Perfection" starts out like a genteel melodrama, then descends into the depraved.
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Blade Runner 2049 starts with a pulpy noir setup that feels tonally perfect, but from there, the film careens from story point to story point without strong connective tissue.
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Aside from the fact that Syfy was overdue for more spaceship stories, what I find most appealing is how it resembles pulpy, entertaining shows like Farscape, Firefly, and Stargate.
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Its first project was a serialized podcast called Steal the Stars, a pulpy audio drama about the employees of a secretive government contractor that is studying a crashed UFO.
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But Ford's stance on the material is strangely opaque: He treats the novel as pulpy melodrama with moments of piercing clarity, while leaving the real-world drama oddly vague.
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The formula was simple — start with a public-domain classic like Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice, add pulpy horror and action, turn any tense scene into a blatant brawl.
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Then, all of that excitement was wrapped up in pulpy, pastiche aesthetics—a big hero with big guns who hates demons and wants to tear out their big guts.
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I had an immediate, lingering, intensely positive reaction to the lamb burger under melted taleggio, but I would not order the underseasoned and pulpy beef burger with Cheddar again.
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Wild strawberries are nothing like the pulpy behemoths at the grocery store, the ones that were grown hydroponically inside a plastic shroud on the other side of the world.
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Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are back as Frank and Claire Underwood, the Machiavellian schemers and menacing first couple in this pulpy series, which returns for its fifth season.
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There are a few callbacks to the graphic novel, including a pulpy, sexy homage to Laurie's own superhero past (like mother, like daughter) and a gigantic blue sex toy.
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It is not, in short, a place you'd expect a literary movement of Muslim women to flourish, especially one that sells pulpy novels in the very marketplaces targeted by jihadists.
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Meanwhile, Mandy, who sketches magical worlds while wearing a Mötley Crüe pentagram shirt and reading a pulpy fantasy novel, provides a healthy counterpoint to Sands' curdled and self-serious spirituality.
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Here in the heartland of Twin Peaks Nation, this abominable man in black sows and reaps a pulpy-corny crop of pain and sorrow, mostly by manipulating and murdering women.
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Which is why it is so disappointing, a few chapters in, when the bracelets come off and the book turns into a pulpy "let's overthrow this dystopian government!" quest novel.
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Sure, this BBC show smells like "Boardwalk Empire from Over There," but it tastes just as good as—if not better than—the pulpy gangster series that came before it.
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While we're using 80-proof, commercially available aguardiente, in Galicia the base of a queimada is often blindingly alcoholic homemade hooch distilled from the pulpy, grapey waste of wine production.
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If the news of the world feels every day more like a pulpy political thriller with an unhinged plotline, painters have responded by grounding their work in observable, human reality.
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And in the pulpy melodrama "How to Get Away With Murder," at 10, things heat up in court when the prosecution tries to bring a new charge against Annalise Keating.
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Ultimately, this is the secret to understanding Miller: All of his male protagonists are, in some sense, Batman — fitting the same violent noir archetype and uttering the same pulpy lines.
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Over the last year in his studio, Dunn, who is candid about his struggles with depression, has filled his head with literary treasures, historical cheat codes and pulpy, pop culture junk.
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Around 60 percent of the orca studied endured a dental procedure known as a "modified pulpotomy," where a hole is drilled into the tooth to extract the soft pulpy tissue inside.
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The film was a loving tribute to the pulpy serials of the 1930s and '40s, from the soundtrack all the way down to the Art Deco typography used for the title.
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But there's a good rapport among the central trio of Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy, and Mr. Cooper finds heft in his pulpy dialogue as Jesse weighs the responsibility of his power.
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When you're ready to cook the steak, make the garlic oil: Halve the garlic cloves, and, using a mortar and pestle, mash the with the rosemary until you have pulpy strips.
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But most of the science fiction that comes from Hollywood is pulpy, popcorn entertainment that relies on genre tropes to generate spectacle rather than to examine the science behind their fictions.
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The show flirts with being outright pulpy trash, then bounces gleefully between genres, underlining the many ways those genres prop up systems that prioritize the feelings and accomplishments of toxic men.
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In honor of our favorite bulletproof superhero, we caught up with Cheo Hodari Coker, Luke's showrunner, who conceived of and led the transition from pulpy blaxploitation comic book to streaming-TV star.
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The small handful of thoughtful moments are far outshined by the show's much stronger focus on steamy hook-ups and romantic drama, and all of it makes for enjoyably pulpy TV watching.
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Syfy released its trailer for the new season of Dark Matter last month, and now, it has released a trailer for the third season of its other pulpy space opera show, Killjoys.
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I spoke with Webb about how he brings that experience forward into Mafia III, a game that also finds itself torn between two identities: pulpy revenge story and racially aware period piece.
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The earlier film is a bracingly pulpy product of its moment, a time when American movies were breaking free of repressive codes and reveling — sometimes wallowing — in sexual display and rough violence.
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Soderbergh and his top-notch cast (Sharon Stone shows up, as do Jeffrey Wright and Matthias Schoenaerts) keep things lively, playing out parables of betrayal and deception with pulpy, TV-movie flair.
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But he was still green and provincial in those days, lacking any artistic influences beyond pulpy EC Comics and his uncles' "drunk tattoos," made from bamboo needles during naval travels in Manila.
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I headed to my local grocery store this week to try and find the exact kind of pulpy tamarind paste that Melissa recommends (which, of course, is very easy in Los Angeles).
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Unlike their many other fever dream B-movies though, Dead 7 features a cast of former heartthrobs living out their pulpy Hollywood dreams, which makes the over-the-top everything feel somewhat justified.
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New York City cop Nick Spitz (Sandler) has been promising his wife, Audrey (Aniston), a hairdresser with a penchant for pulpy crime novels, a belated honeymoon to Europe for the last 15 years.
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We want to respect the period, but we also wanted to tell a story that's, like you said, pulpy and engaging in a way that felt true to Mafia as a game series.
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We want to respect the period, but we also wanted to tell a story that's, like you said, pulpy and engaging in a way that felt true to Mafia as a game series.
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It doesn't really have to — clearly a pulpy story about women and murder (and a train) can do just fine at the bookstore, and at the box office, without being subversive and clever.
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We initially hesitated to add a Big Little Lies episode to the list, given how well its seven episodes — part pulpy murder mystery, part wrenching family drama — hold together as a cohesive whole.
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He stops the conversation to order some empanadas that are served with a pulpy chiltepin salsa, and bonds with Rayos over the notoriety of his hometown, infamous for birthing the world's top fugitive.
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It would do storylines set in World War II concentration camps, or try to compare and contrast its vampire threat with the Nazis, and it all felt too pulpy to really hit home.
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A pulpy little magazine, much like that Esquire issue, starts that confrontation: Watchmen viewers — whether we've read the graphic novel or not — know very little about what happened to Laurie after the 1980s.
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The story of a hitman who comes out of retirement to take revenge on the Russian gangster who killed his puppy and stole his car, Wick is a violent, kinetic, pulpy tour de force.
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AR: I will consume almost any story whose premise is "What if a pulpy genre plot were subject to the dour constraints of reality?" and I will talk your damn ear off about it.
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While these parallels aren't exact, they point to a franchise that has expanded beyond the pulpy material that inspired it, and a connection to the time and place in which these new films exist.
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But what kept The Student Nurses relevant while so many of the other films produced by Corman have become incredibly dated is the way Rothman blatantly subverted the pulpy genre she was working in.
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" The Puccini opera features ravishing music, Italian operatic drama, and a sometimes pulpy libretto based on a David Belasco play that raises modern eyebrows when its Native American characters greet each other with "Ugh.
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And although Ms. Kael praised those things in her review, she said the "pulpy suspense plot" was not engrossing, that the voice-overs were "ludicrous" and that Mr. Scott was no good at dialogue.
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Produced by a small studio in Turin and shot largely on the Italian Riviera, "Filibus" is a lighthearted analogue to "Fantômas" and "Les Vampires," the pulpy serial melodramas produced in France by Louis Feuillade.
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He likes middle-tier stories, he told me, stories that might take place among a limited number of characters, or in a limited setting, but where there's still a pulpy, genre side to things.
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The casting is great — especially Idris Elba — but Danish director Nikolaj Arcel (whose A Royal Affair was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 2013) is hugely unproven with this kind of massive, pulpy material.
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Delano Dunn caps off his Project for Empty Space residency with the multi-layered, mixed-media exhibition, Dreams of Fire and Starshine filled with delightfully saccharine, pulpy, images of smashed and smelted pop culture data.
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Every time I cracked open one of his gargantuan tomes (or any of the pulpy crime novels I read as a tween), what I was really doing was testing myself, trying to prove my strength.
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The novella goes beyond the story told in the film, offering vintage pulpy Russian drama (it was first published in Dostoyevsky's magazine Epoch), and the English translation comes packaged with five other Leskov stories too.
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The pulpy melodrama portrayed the lawyers, on both sides, as people who either failed to understand the larger, broader problem of race in the United States, or knew the issue intimately enough to manipulate it.
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The fun, pulpy show about a bookstore manager who becomes dangerously obsessed with a woman came and went in the summer of 2018 with barely a peep from Twitter or the TV cultural hive mind.
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Even though homelessness, drugs and garbage are still an issue in Tompkins Square Park, the neighborhood is a far cry from the gritty terrain that inspired the pulpy Hollywood crime thriller "Alphabet City" in 1984.
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It's handsomely shot (on New York City locations) and smoothly assembled, and its naturalistic, psychological, more moody than pulpy approach may work for non-comics fans who don't mind some gore with their procedural thrillers.
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Lawrence's openness has always been one of her strongest qualities, but here she shuts off almost completely, challenging the audience to decipher what Dominika is thinking at any point in this twisty, pulpy action flick.
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It's the kind of beautiful space garbage—a pulpy, fun, colorful and borderline nonsensical romp through impossible worlds—that I fell so hard for in Jupiter Ascending and yes, Valerian's own predecessor, The Fifth Element.
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In 2015 the second season told the story of Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier captured by the Taliban; but as a reported story rather than a pulpy whodunit it was less popular with fans and critics.
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With creators like Rhimes now having the freedom and money to do whatever she likes, her signature brand of pulpy dramas — which are among the most beloved staples of primetime TV — may end up going extinct.
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In the book's acknowledgements and elsewhere, Moreci recounts that his editor called him up and asked him to write a love letter to Star Wars — a pulpy, exuberant adventure that captured the spirit of the franchise.
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After all, if Stephen King hands you a complex fiction that turns pulpy tropes into a dense mythology with its own language and heavyweight heroes like Roland, wouldn't you run with at least some of it?
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As "Mad Max: Fury Road" confirmed, she's a natural warrior, but it's interesting here that each exertion and exhalation, each meaty, pulpy thump, also seems to be battering the fortifications that she has built around her.
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Todd VanDerWerff: As someone who's never read the Elena Ferrante Neapolitan quartet that inspires the new series My Brilliant Friend, what most surprised me about the series' first two episodes was how borderline pulpy they were.
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The Girl on the Train probably seemed like ripe source material for a new kind of suburban melodrama movie, one with all the sex, blood, drunk black-outs, and evil men required of a pulpy thriller.
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The affection Saunders demonstrates for his most flawed characters, as well as his easy stylistic balance between comedy and reverence, bring to mind similar features in "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," Michael Chabon's pulpy, alternative-reality detective story.
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When you watch these movies today, the pulpy universal language of crude dubbing and its erasure of national boundaries can feel oddly idealistic, like Esperanto or something, less a failure of technology than a sweet, utopian anachronism.
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I need to acknowledge just how hard of a job that can be, to do this sort of commentary WELL, and to do so while, well, enjoying being a pulpy detective story set in a Lovecraftian universe.
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"Fake psychic; real visions": that's how Les Bohem pitched his pulpy new series starring Jeffrey Donovan ("Burn Notice") as Charlie, a con-man fortune teller who, after a blow to the head, starts having episodes of actual clairvoyance.
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The following year's pulpy "High" starred Kathleen Turner as a tough-love nun trying to help drug addicts; a scene in which Ms. Turner calmed down a raving man who had stripped naked remains branded in my memory.
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That film inspired a handful of sequels and spin-offs (including the magnificently hyper-violent Predator 2), but none with the pulpy pedigree of Black, who wrote the original Lethal Weapon, and directed the high-flying Iron Man 3.
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From the looks of both Chochola's combat-readiness and the clay sculptures, glazed, pulpy, and energy-packed objects that were literally punched and kicked into existence by the artist and his kru (Muay Thai teacher), the transformation was complete.
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The concept of Bitch Planet — a sci-fi take on grindhouse flicks that sends "non-compliant" women to an interplanetary jail to compete in a Hunger Games-ish battle to the death — is supposed to be pulpy, bonkers fun.
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Black Star Renegades is a fun, pulpy, familiar read: a dash across space with a lovable band of misfits trying to stay one step ahead of Queen Ga Halle of the Praxis, an evil empire with plans on total galactic domination.
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The main plot is pulpy sci-fi: our grievously injured hero has returned home after waking from a 14-year coma, and he's aiming to start a second American Revolution using a power suit made by an ancient Jewish sect.
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Just like in real life, you can learn a lot about someone just by perusing their bookshelf, whether it's the technician who relaxes with pulpy space operas, or the stressed-out doctor who keeps a book on mindfulness beside her toilet.
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In season two, however, the series simply shifted all of its eggs into the "pulpy business thriller" basket, and trusted that audiences would notice all the horrible venality that happened in proximity to the long war between Chuck and Bobby.
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Or, if you prefer titles closer to the genre's pulpy roots, there's H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, which tops out at 32,548 words, and, at just 25,642, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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There is a definite soap-opera undercurrent to "Underground," and the series isn't above letting it surface now and then, in steamy assignations and other pulpy moments that seem more shaped for a 21st-century TV audience than for historical accuracy.
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For all its corniness and pulpy action sequences, at the film's core is a radical message that still resonates with modern audiences: the only way to take meaningful action against climate change is to stomp out the main problem—complacency.
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It's Lagos noir — pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan courtesy of the narrator, Ayoola's horrified sister Korede, a nurse who is always on hand to discreetly dispose of a body or to help concoct an alibi.
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Quentin Tarantino's second film was also his breakthrough into the mainstream, with a story that mashed up the best of pulpy crime stories with the sorts of long, rambling (but entertaining) conversations that have become the director's stock in trade.
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BJ is big, tough, and capable of going toe-to-toe, knife-to-knife, with most enemies on a one-on-one basis; but against legions, he's just a man, soft and pulpy cannon fodder for the advanced German War Machine.
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Vincent Wong's section feels especially immediate, and I will never forget the image of his friend holding Vincent's pulpy head in his lap after he's been beaten by two white men, will never forget his skull feeling 'like rotten fruit.
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There's an overall sense of self-consciousness to "Dannemora," of reining in — as if the creative team were unwilling (or unable) to exploit the story's naturally pulpy essence, but also were unwilling to fully explore its possibilities for uncomfortable humor.
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It is as if the production designers, dispatched on a décor-gathering mission, could not contain themselves; the whole place is deliberately stuffed to the seams, like a gothic pastiche, just as the performances are pulpy and close to overripe.
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This pulpy crime thriller is the first production from Netflix India and a handy fictional introduction to the sprawling city of Mumbai — though we're guessing the actual Mumbai features fewer criminal masterminds threatening to destroy the city in 25 days' time.
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As much as I would love to see this whole series end with Madeline killing Renata (and Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon gnawing on every available fiber of scenery), I really don't think the show is going to be that pulpy or soapy.
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While games like Heavy Rain borrow more from pulpy noir stories like Fincher's Se7en than Godard's Alphaville, and Beyond: Two Souls favors teen superhero melodrama over the kind of political commentary in works like Weekend, Cage invokes the innovative form of Godard's works.
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For books, a dog-eared copy of Ray Bradbury's pulpy short collection October Country has assumed permanent residency on my bedside table, and the Charlie Brown Christmas album never makes it more than five feet from my record player — even in July.
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Once you have your foodstuffs ready, choose the strainer that suits the juice to be made — finer for a smooth, minimally pulpy juice, larger slots for a more smoothie-like consistency — and start feeding in celery, nuts, chunks of lemon, whatever you want.
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Although the FX drama based on Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's novels was never a huge hit, the series generally delivered the pulpy attributes of a solid action yarn, while adding layers to its characters through flashbacks, some dating back centuries.
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You can mash a sausage into a pulpy slurry, slice an artichoke up and drop it in a pan—or fry it whole if you're so inclined—then throw both into a pot to boil before presenting it to your waiting monster.
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It's half hidden, but you can't miss it, peeking out from underneath presumably some pretty important documents, actively underpinning them—just as Lake's twisted take on all things pulpy about modern Americana serves as the foundation for Remedy's celebrated story-focused games.
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Pop culture is so saturated with escape rooms that this past January, Columbia Pictures released the pulpy horror flick Escape Room, which should not be confused with either of the other two recent horror movies about escape rooms also called Escape Room.
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So is the ease with which the screen star Orlando Bloom inhabits the shadowy if pulpy realm of "Killer Joe," the Tracy Letts play from 1993 that has brought Mr. Bloom back to the London stage for the first time since 2007.
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Raised on the Gershwin and Porter tunes her father loves, she pores over pulpy show-biz biographies of Fred Astaire "like a Victorian lady reading her psalms" and studies with a scholar's intensity the classic M-G-M musicals she finds on VHS.
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If this was a less pulpy movie that was more devoted to exploring the ideas it presents, it might set off a significant conversation about the balance of one human life against thousands and the ethics of taking lives to save them.
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Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, who has writing credits on all 13 episodes (Goodwin, Cage's original writer, also has writing credits on the series), and writer John Romita Jr. (the son of Cage's creator) keep Cage's origin story intact and fully lean into his pulpy roots.
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All that each half-hour segment needed was a sturdy hook on which it could hang puns, pulpy pleasures, and purple prose; hubristic would-be masterminds plotting their perfect crime, average Joes stalked by unseen predators, lovers losing their senses in fits of feverish passion.
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What could have ended up as a forgettable bit of pulpy trash TV has instead become a masterclass from a set of actors at the tops of their games, chewing up scenery like the T. rex chasing Laura Dern in Jurassic Park (she, too, wow).
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He is the subject of Karen Hall's DARK DEBTS (Simon & Schuster, $27), a pulpy theological horror story that was a big hit when it was originally published in 1996 and that has been reissued this year with a new ending and newly fleshed-out characters.
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Maybe because of the vice-girl voice of its author, or maybe because of its male ghostwriter, I Am Not Ashamed is in a hard-boiled, pulpy mode, which means that Barbara calls herself "the nuts and boiling hot" with a near-straight face.
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Her career as a columnist, author of pulpy whodunits and the star of "Growing Up Gotti," a reality television show that was a primogenitor for "Jersey Shore" and "The Real Housewives," was always detached from and unrelated to "the life," as she refers to it.
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Similar to the disclosures from Edward Snowden on the National Security Agency's global cyberspying in 2013, this new document dump is loaded with bizarre, classified code names purportedly used by the CIA that sound like they were borrowed straight from the pages of a pulpy spy thriller.
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Mr Larsson's bestselling thrillers, as pulpy as they were, exposed the dark side of Stockholm society: its violence, its ingrained misogyny, its undercurrent of Nazi white supremacism (a topic which seemed a lot less resonant when the first "Dragon Tattoo" came out than it does today).
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While initially panned by critics, the movie went on to be hailed as one of the best science fiction films ever made, turning a previously pulpy premise into a serious story with mind-blowing advances in special effects that would pave the way for future classics.
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So you have this paradigm shift, where now people want to go to where the art is being made, and if cinema is doing big, pulpy, popcorn spectacles, but TV is getting into the minutia of the form, and building characters, then people will flock to that.
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Science fiction is also saddled with a perception problem, stemming from the tradition of amateur and pulpy stories that were so popular in the early 20th century, even as authors and editors worked to continually improve the writing and quality of the stories in novels and magazines.
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"There is a definite soap-opera undercurrent to 'Underground,' and the series isn't above letting it surface now and then, in steamy assignations and other pulpy moments that seem more shaped for a 21st-century TV audience than for historical accuracy," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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IN THE FADE In this surprisingly pulpy revenge drama from Fatih Akin ("The Edge of Heaven"), a woman (Diane Kruger) whose husband and son were killed in a terrorist bombing in Hamburg finds that the German legal system is less forthcoming with justice than she would like.
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For an Evening With Friends You'll probably not want to venture out with the family to this dark thriller, but if you're looking for a movie that will appeal to you and your friends, this film — part pulpy thriller and part contemplative drama — will be of interest.
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Right now publishers can afford to subsidize a few prestige titles every year with the profits they make on the types of books that generally do sell well — erotica that made a big splash when it was self-published, pulpy thrillers from established authors, and so on.
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At this point, it's hard to know whether FC53 will nail that, but at the very least, Ubisoft Montreal is smart enough to foreground Montanans as average Americans (and their own incredibly pulpy saviors) in the debut trailer and a set of series of character vignettes that released today.
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I realized this while watching the first few episodes of season two, which premieres Wednesday, January 25: With its kicky, pulpy blend of quippy dialogue, pop culture references, continual inventiveness, and deeply painful plot twists, the show feels like some long-lost second cousin of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Indeed, as one of the first modern action series to feature a powerful female action star, Resident Evil's overall arc offers some surprising insights into the essential nature of female action stardom — and tries, in its own pulpy way, to subvert those expectations even as it meets them.
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Inspired by a true story, the movie ladles up lots of pulpy bits and buckets of blood to tell a depressing, depressingly familiar story about what happens when young men with apparent means and a whole lot of free time get together to build their own precariously hermetic world.
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Yes, there's another prison to break out of, but this one appears to be in Turkey; the premise is a riff on the classic prison drama Midnight Express, although Midnight Express was a serious film, not the kind of pulpy potboiler that Prison Break was at its best.
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While the channel some heavy-hitting shows like The Expanse and The Magicians, Dark Matter is a fun, pulpy space opera that hails back to the days when shows like Farscape and Stargate SG-1 ruled the airwaves, and this latest trailer looks like we have a fun season before us.
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He also makes time to star in pulpy but serious thrillers, like Gone Girl and The Accountant, that allow him to try out something more like proper acting: parts that require some amount of actual character work, rather than merely growling and body-building in front of a green screen.
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The best thing about April and the Extraordinary World is how it's utterly unlike most comic book movies — and most superhero movies — produced in the US. It's a loose, scrappy tale that blends pulpy adventure with a young woman's coming of age, and then adds a healthy dollop of mad science.
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For Paul Feig, the director behind hits like Bridesmaids, a movie that he thinks could have done better if he'd released it on a streaming platform instead of theaters, was his 2018 film A Simple Favor, a pulpy thriller starring Blake Lively in a series of great suits and pants.
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The movie easily could have spun out of control, but in the hands of Whedon and a cast spearheaded by an invigorating Robert Downey Jr., it was streamlined, sleek, and almost clinical in how it showcased the soaring joy and pulpy fun that comic book movies are capable of tapping into.
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Murder junkies looking for their murder fixes, look no further: We've compiled a list of the best murder-mystery docs, movies, and tv shows on Netflix (US) right now: Wesley Snipes is a United Nations operative framed for the murder of a Chinese ambassador in Canadian director Christian Duguay's pulpy action-spy thriller.
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"The reason I usually recommend eating whole vegetables and fruits, rather than drinking them, is that the fibrous and pulpy parts contain valuable nutrients, and also serve to fill you up," Dr. Alka Gupta, co-director of the Integrative Health & Wellbeing Program at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine told INSIDER.
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When directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott and writers Nick Damici and Graham Reznick put the project together back in 2015, they couldn't have expected that, by the time Bushwick made its way to limited theaters and VOD this week, it would end up coming across as pulpy exploitation of very current fears about resurging white nationalism.
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But with new franchise director James Foley (Fear, At Close Range) now on board, we're hoping that Darker can do a better job of getting at the pulpy roots of E.L. James' e-book-turned-best-seller, which documents the tortured relationship between young student Anastasia (played by Dakota Johnson) and corporate kink-a-dink Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan).
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Waypoint EIC Austin Walker had an in-depth chat with the game's writer, Charles Webb, on the game's approach to race as a lens for players to view this character and this (admittedly pulpy, crime-thriller) world through: Interestingly, and effectively, the game actually makes systemic racism an actual mechanic in the world—one that directly impacts the gameplay.
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Both are inspired by pulpy crime novels, both star two of the biggest film actors of their era (Charleton Heston and Jimmy Stewart) as law enforcement agents caught in dark conspiracies, and both films were created by legendary auteurs whose shared hunger for bigger and more audacious projects was matched only by their limitless appetite for food and booze.
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If the Cubs advance to the World Series—Clayton Kershaw warms up menacingly; Chicago fans knock on wood for so long that their knuckles turn into pulpy blobs not really capable of knocking in the conventional sense, and they just keep mashing these blobs up against the wood anyway—Lester will face a Cleveland team more used to running.
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Though there's a photo montage showing race-crime headlines of the 1920s in the second act, Mr. Evans (the anointed artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theater) doesn't let the didactic side overwhelm the compellingly pulpy storytelling (based on Edna Ferber's decades-spanning novel), some of the liveliest choreography in London (by Alistair David) and the gorgeous singing of Kern's peerless ballads.
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The walls, some of them white clapboard, as in a beach house, were decorated with movie posters: there was one of a pulpy, porny 1977 docudrama called, "Born a Man, Let Me Die a Woman," and of Mx. Soloway's own work, including "Afternoon Delight," their directorial feature debut about a bored Silver Lake wife who invites an exotic dancer into her home.
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But it's also a movie that can't quite escape the moment it was released in, when the ostensibly pulpy story that gives the movie its spine (the rich and powerful politicians are running secret rings of child prostitutes) has become the basis of several real-world conspiracy theories that have brought grief to plenty of individuals over the past couple of years.
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The line between political intrigue and tense family dynamics is a fascinating one, but worryingly, might be overshadowed by a "father figure" for Al. According to Ingold, Al's surrogate father is a bartender who lives in the slums where she grew up, and inspired by Humphrey Bogart's pulpy detective in The Big Sleep, or his washed up hero in To Have and Have Not.
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"Those who panic, die first," offers another prisoner of the nightmares, of the Woman's Wrath, at one of the take-a-breather landing zones that break up each night's horrors; but it's impossible not to freak out when just a few rows below your feet a terrifying mutant child with a chainsaw for an arm is trying to turn Vincent into a pulpy mess.
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If you ask me, if it weren't decked out in the SF stylings of its day—Sheckley's writing, which inspired the likes of Philip K Dick, is sharp, strange, and satirical, but can skew pulpy—it'd be in conversation for classic all-time speculative short story, the sort we're made to read in 8th grade English class, up there with The Lottery and Harrison Bergeron.
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And the promise of George R.R. Martin's saga was that it might, in its somewhat pulpy way, offer the most successful integration yet, with a political and social world rich enough to feel like a piece of 14th- and 15th-century history they forgot to teach in school, with a chivalric order breaking down and a commercial and technological order waiting to be born … except that in this world, the dragons and the prophecies and fair folk won't go gently into the good night.
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Fresh off the cathartic, messy stabbing of a sadistic concentration camp guard responsible for the murder of his grandmother, he meets a ragtag team of traumatized war veterans, washed-up actors, holocaust survivors, intelligence officers, and radical activists—including a rich old man played by Al Pacino—who've made it their life's work to track down and eliminate the Nazis who've gone into hiding around the United States in the decades following World War II. It's a setup perfect for a pulpy B-movie, which Jonah—a stoner who works at a comic shop in 1970s New York City—seems to recognize immediately.
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