The much-imitated actor has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows, including The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, The Dogs of War, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, True Romance, Pulp Fiction and Catch Me If You Can, as well as music videos by many recording artists, including Madonna.
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As such, genre SF reflected the social mores of the day, paralleling common prejudices; This was particularly true of pulp fiction, more so than literary works of the time.
And for some researchers the word "psychopath" has been tainted by its long and seamy relationship with criminality and popular culture, which began with true-crime pulps and continues today in TV shows like CBS's "Criminal Minds" and in the work of authors like Thomas Harris and Patricia Cornwell.
As foreheads burst asunder, and as Gibson caps the mayhem by firing repeatedly through the back of a dead man's head, I wanted to ask: Is this the true legacy of "Pulp Fiction"—that the fiction would lose all credibility and make way for actual human pulp?
As foreheads burst asunder, and as Gibson caps the mayhem by firing repeatedly through the back of a dead man's head, I wanted to ask: Is this the true legacy of "Pulp Fiction" — that the fiction would lose all credibility and make way for actual human pulp?
Harmony Korine has given us a violent pulp true romance that could be renamed A Pre-Summer's Night's Wet Dream.
From "King of New York" to "True Romance" and "Pulp Fiction," Walken has made a style statement out of dressing like an educated pimp and handling a gun as if it were an elegant extension of his mind.
Here's what our critics had to say about recent releases: Peter Bradshaw said: Spring Breakers is [Harmony] Korine's most technically competent and fluent movie … Korine has given us a violent pulp true romance … a preselected, pre-auditioned representation of youth and beauty … There is an undeniable directorial strut in Spring Breakers.
Gemma Atwal's documentary "Marathon Boy," a film-festival favorite that will be shown on HBO on Thursday night, is a wrenching experience largely because it uses the moods and methods of true crime and pulp fiction to tell a story that is nominally about poverty, politics and the toxic mingling of celebrity culture and national pride in modern India.
I've noticed this thing of making a distinction between literary true crime and pulp true crime.
