Pulp

Dryly irreverent, but sadly unfunny satire of detective movies, with stony-faced Michael Caine playing a British author of trashy crime stories traveling to the Mediterraean to assist in writing the memoirs of a would-be gangster; soon, he realizes he's being followed... Full review

This starts of with quite a few good laughs some visual, some slapstick and a few situation based but gets a little more serious as it progresses.The acting is good with Rooney as the slightly mad client being especially good... Full review

Mickey King is a jobbing writer, spitting out lurid gangster novels under various fake names with the usual mix of violence and sex making them sell. He is approached to ghost write for an unnamed Hollywood "legend" and, pocketing a... Full review

After making the greatest gangster film Get Carter, it was probably was going to be hard for Mike Hodges and the team behind Get Carter, to accomplished a film better than Get Carter.Wisely Hodges decided to make a film that... Full review

This film confounded those who were expecting a performance from Caine that echoed the 'hard man of few words' character which he mastered in Get Carter only one year before Pulp. Some saw it as playing his recent success for... Full review

While Hodges and Caine's 'Get Carter' has long since become a classic movie, it's follow up, 'Pulp' has been largely forgotten about. This is a shame, as, on it's on its own terms, and 'Pulp' is as rich a film.... Full review

A year after 'Get Carter' revived the British gangster film, Mike Hodges and Michael Caine returned with another offering of gangster fiction. But that's where the high hopes end I'm afraid, because what we get - instead of the edgy,... Full review

A pulp novelist (Michael Caine) goes to Italy to ghost the autobiography of an old time Hollywood film gangster (Mickey Rooney), but maybe not everyone wants to see the book written?One of these films that was under regarded upon release,... Full review

Great film that doesn't take itself too seriously. For me, the parts played by Dennis Price and Lionel Stander kind of steal the show. Narrated in the first person throughout, if I remember rightly, I guess it could also have... Full review

"Can you walk a little faster?" said the whiting to the snail. "There's a porpoise right behind me, and he's treading on my tail..."Michael Caine had a pretty good year in 1972. GET CARTER was one of his best-ever films,... Full review

MGM/Fox's DVD of Pulp is perfectly preserved, with every sunny exterior glowing in its proper hue. George Martin's music score is pleasant but doesn't add much to the film's shaky mood. ... Full Review

It is insightful, full of a deep love and understanding noir, but at its best, Pulp is downright funny, and its cutting one-liners mark a strong screenplay. Caine's voice-over is constant over the whole filma trademark from early, hardboiled noirbut it's frequently at odds with the action on the screen, like when he heroically details how he shakes off a bullet to the leg, while King takes one look at the blood and passes out. ... Full Review

On the way to a private island, Mickey learns about his employer, Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney, in a sensational performance), an aging ex-movie star with real-life ties to the Mafia. After a week of non-stop talking to Mickey about his life, Preston invites Mickey to an after-book party, where Preston, after performing a particularly humiliating shtick where he embarrasses a couple dining nearby, is gunned down by the miraculously alive Miller, disguised as a priest. ... Full Review

As always, Caine brings his unflappable wit to the role, making the most of his repertoire of deadpan expressions. I'll bet you anything Cagney was offered this borderline psychedelic script and turned it down flat. ... Full Review

By Travis Mackenzie Hoover I sort of want to give Pulp points for effort its got such a willingness to throw things against the wall to see if they stick (or explode in flames) that a little affection is hard... ... Full Article

In this droll caper, Michael Caine is a pulp hack prone to appropriately lush prose (''His face was like a crushed red pepper'') who's hired to ghost ex-Hollywood star Rooney's autobiography. ... Full Article