Barry’s Blu-rays the second episode in our regular feature for CrimeTimeFM.

BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray.
Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. This episode features Arrow's 4 Noir Classic - The Dark Mirror, Secret Beyond The Door, Force Of Evil & The Big Combo, Colombia Noir No.3 Johnny O'Clock, The Dark Past, Convicted, Between Midnight and Dawn, Sniper & City of Fear, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Battle Royale I &II and Irreversible.

 Barry Forshaw is the crime fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds. He edits Crime Time.

Check out Barry in conversation with Ace Atkins about his new Spenser novel SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME CTFM#9. Available now.

Buy Barry's latest book Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide

Produced by Jem& Son and Paul Burke
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