by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 10, 2007 | Home Entertainment, TV
In the early 80s, we were treated to films full of wacky stunts (Hooper, Smokey & the Bandit) thanks to Burt Reynolds. Lee Majors saw the success of those films and had a notion to bring that kind of wacky fun to the small screen. And so The Fall Guy was born. Lee...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 10, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced they will be releasing a “2-disc Limited Collector’s Edition” of Taxi Driver on August 14th. Paul Schrader’s gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Banacek : The First Season Hart Sharp Video Banacek started on the air in 1972 as part of NBC’s Wednesday Night Mystery Line up. It starred George Peppard as a Polish American detective who specialized in the recovery of things insured by a Boston Insurance...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2007 | Comics
So here the books I read this week.***Great Book*** BLACK SUMMER issue 0 Avatar Warren Ellis writing a superhero book that is not really a superhero book. This issue sets up what looks like a great series. A worls where the heros have suffered some real problems, not...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2007 | Home Entertainment
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Someone in California was looking through stacks (or shelves or what ever they use for storage) and came across “CHiPs” and decided that this is television that needed to be out on DVD. I think it was pretty obvious...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2007 | Books
I got a phone call this week from my favorite mystery critic. That would be my Dad. “You were right, it’s a great book!” There really were exclamation marks in his voice. More than one, but I’m showing a little restraint here. After all, I had...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2007 | Films
Based on a New York magazine article by Mark Jacobson, American Gangster tells the story of Frank Lucas, Harlem drug kingpin that had heroin smuggled in from Asia in the coffins of soldiers returning from Nam. Ridley Scott directs, with Denzel Washington and Russell...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 8, 2007 | Home Entertainment
That Thing You Do, originally released in 1996, is a fun movie directed by Tom Hanks. While it is obviously based loosely on the early days of The Beatles and their rise to fame there are differences, the most obvious being the US setting. Featuring Liv Tyler doing...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 8, 2007 | Films
Richard Mathison’s book I am Legend has been made into a movie twice before: 1964’s The Last Man on Earth (starring Vincent Price with Mathison himself writing the screenplay under another name) and 1971’s The Omega Man (with Chalton Heston). Now it...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 7, 2007 | Home Entertainment
The Lookout will be released, on DVD, on August 14th. The Lookout is one of the best films I have seen in 2007. While it was overlooked in the theaters, it deserves a closer look by fans of intelligent crime films. Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( Brick, 3rd Rock from the Sun)...
