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Ep 166 The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones
After struggling to write a novel about the last days of Billy the Kid, travel writer and Mark Twain scholar Charles Neider found his inspiration by …
16 hours ago
Ep 165 Jim McBride's Lost Screenplays
After bursting onto the late 60's cinema scene with the independent underground hit David Holtzman's Diary and entering the 70's with the post-apocal…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Ep 164 The Jugger
The Pink Smoke is back on track, picking up with the sixth entry of Donald E. Westlake's Parker series. A true outlier, The Jugger doesn't feature an…
2 months ago
Ep 163 The Maya and Science Fiction
Star Trek episodes, the title credits of Alien, the architecture of Star Wars and Blade Runner, the work of Joseph Campbell, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Ba…
3 months, 1 week ago
Parker Doesn't Say 'Merry Christmas': A 2025 Holiday Special
In this super-sized episode of our ongoing series where we discuss the exploits of career criminal Parker from the books by Richard Stark a.k.a. Dona…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep 162 The Score
With the fifth entry of the Parker series, The Score, Richard Stark aka Donald E. Westlake puts his career criminal anti-hero in charge of his most a…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Ep 161 I Killed Bette Davis by Larry Cohen
If you're a fan of Larry Cohen, the maverick filmmaker behind such mind-bending genre pictures as It's Alive, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent a…
4 months, 1 week ago
EP 160 Visitors from Lanulos
“I went to a different planet where the spacemen drink coffee and don't cheat on their wives.” Cryptozoologist Christopher Funderburg and parapsychol…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
FiVE FROM THE FiRE / Episode 11: Becky D'Anna and Jon Laubinger
What if every single print of every single film by 5 esteemed filmmakers were housed in a burning warehouse and there was only time to save 5 of them…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ep 159 Gremlins Rip-Offs
For this year's Halloween theme, the Pink Smoke sets its sights on the mid-80's to early 90's trend of "mischievous little monsters" horror movies mo…
5 months, 2 weeks ago