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This thread is an open space to share movies and TV shows you’ve been watching that might appeal to fellow members of the Pulp Fiction Book Club. Crime, noir, thrillers, pulp-adjacent classics, hidden gems, or anything that scratches a similar itch to our reading picks are all fair game.

Feel free to post quick recommendations, recent discoveries, rewatches, or even ask for suggestions. If it’s smart, pulpy, dark, or just plain entertaining, chances are someone else here will want to check it out too.

I’m six episodes into the eight-episode HBO miniseries The Night Of, written by Richard Price, whose crime fiction includes the excellent Clockers, which our group read a couple of years ago.

The series is a gritty, deeply unsettling look at a young college student who suddenly finds himself entangled in a murder investigation. As with much of Price’s work, what really stands out is the rare authenticity — not just in the characters, but in the slow, grinding, and often impersonal machinery of the justice system itself.

Dark, absorbing, and very much in Price’s wheelhouse. Highly recommended.

Recently, I had some pulpy fun with "Bound" from 1996 by the Wachowsky brothers turned sisters. Great cast and steaming chemistry between the leads Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly, with a dark comedy plot reminiscent of some Coen movies.

I've also watched a classic noir with Robert Mitchum that I somehow missed: "His Kind of Woman" from 1951. It is a little silly, but the dialogue is great and Jane Russell has a fine singing voice, along with her other impressive physical assets. The greatest attraction in the movie turned out to be Vincent Price, hamming it out as a lecherous action actor who quotes Shakespeare

I've been watching the Netflix show Black Rabbit--not noir, but gritty and crime-y, so might appeal.