Barry Forshaw
@BarryForshaw3
Writer and journalist; books on crime fiction, film, classical music and the arts, Blu-ray extras & booklets, editor, Crime Time, Blu-Ray Choice
Crime-heavy week for me: Carlo Lucarelli Tuesday, Hatchards Authors of the year Party Wednesday (w. crime luminaries) and the CWA Dagger Shortlist announced today – see Crime Time link below.. it's the hardknock life for me keeping up with all this... crimetime.co.uk/2025-cwa-dagge…
In next Saturday's FT: The Good Liar/Denise Mina, The Good Father/Liam McIlvanney, The Art of a Lie/Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Kill Your Darlings/Peter Swanson, The Magus of Sicily/Philip Gwynne Jones, & Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Arnaldur Indriđason crimetime.co.uk/new-crime-in-t…
Covering THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT & QUATERMASS 2, Val Guest @hammerfilms 4K/ WOMEN IN LOVE, Ken Russell @BFI 4K/HEART OF STONE; @Eurekavideo /WHEN EVIL LURKS; @SecondSightFilm /Three from Indicator : THE HIRELING, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE DRESSER dvdchoices.co.uk
Hunted by Abir Mukherjee has been announced as the winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025. crimetime.co.uk/hunted-by-abir…
Kim Newman's thumbs-up for Superman for @SightSoundmag as astute as ever (meaning: I share his postive view! We were at the same IMAX press show).
My Sight & Sound review of Superman (2025) is online bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
Fun writing the booklet essay for Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys (@SecondSightFilm}
If you haven't picked up the brand spanking new THE NICE GUYS 4k steelbook... you're missing out. There are some FANTASTIC extras plus a book of essays, one written by friend of the podcast, @BarryForshaw3!
Maigret Capsule Collection: Barry Forshaw, author of Simenon, The Man, The Books, The Films, on a very welcome new publishing initiative from Penguin: twelve hand-picked Maigret mysteries; See Crime Time: crimetime.co.uk/maigret-capsul…
I asked Mark Billingham to talk to Crime Time about his 25th novel, What The Night Brings.... crimetime.co.uk/what-the-night…
The Compleat Raymond Chandler: John Bleasdale on the Master of the Hardboiled Detective Novel for Crime Time: crimetime.co.uk/the-compleat-r…
Picked up today's Daily Planet at King's Cross – but perhaps the subeditor should have added some punctuation to Lois Lane's headline?
The 2025 winners of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. See link on Crime Time: crimetime.co.uk/2025-cwa-dagge…
Blu-ray Choice: Coverage & Namechecks: MGM: THE SEAN CONNERY 6-FILM COLLECTION/Warner: LETHAL WEAPON 4K UHD/Eureka: TERROR IN THE FOG/88: THE BLACK TORMENT/Severin: DR WHO AND THE DALEKS/Hammer: SHATTER/Radiance: KILLER COP/Second Sight: THE NICE GUYS dvdchoices.co.uk
Best of Summer Crime in the FT (Urtext): The Woman Who Laughed/Simon Mason; King of Ashes/S. A. Cosby; The Secrets We Keep/M. R. Mackenzie; A Schooling in Murder/Andrew Taylor; The Stranger in Room Six/Jane Corry; The Red Shore/William Shaw + Lisa Jewell crimetime.co.uk/the-best-of-su…
Karin Slaughter interviewed by Lee Child in Mayfair about her new book, We Are All Guilty Here. The Slaughter/Child badinage demonstrated their long friendship, and the review-proof Lee Child even called me out from the stage as an ‘eminent reviewer’! crimetime.co.uk/karin-slaughte…
Admirers of Hammer Films are relishing a series of deluxe silver disc reissues of some of the studio’s key films. Now we have the film that inaugurated their matchless run of horror product, though The Quatermass Xperiment is, in fact, science fiction... dvdchoices.co.uk
In the ever-stimulating company of @PaulVidich, whose The Poet's Game maintains his impeccable standards (our usual bonding over Graham Greene). In the lively disputatious company of Antonia Senior @Tonisenior Andrew Rosenheim, @MerleNygate, Ed Needham @JakeKerridge et al
Carlo Lucarelli is the King of Italian Noir - but am I inimitable?!?
The inimitable Barry Forshaw and the *King of Italian Noir* Carlo Lucarelli at the launch of #TheDarkestWinter t J Farrell! Unmissable #crimefiction!!
Relished writing a booklet essay for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (from @ArrowFilmsVideo) @landofwhimsy @sergioangelini @HolmesBooth @MessinaRaphael @FunCityEdition @SecondSightFilm @Eurekavideo @NeoNoirLuke
A classic New York thriller of the seventies is restored for Blu-ray later this month as @ArrowFilmsVideo recount The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. geekchocolate.co.uk/the-taking-of-… #BluRay #thriller #classicfilm
Un bicchiere di vino with Carlo Lucarelli. Wrote in the FT: 'The Darkest Winter -- set in the Bologna of 1944 -- finds the thuggish Black Brigades fighting the SS for control of the city, while the conflicted Commissario De Luca struggles to solve three simultaneous murders...'
