by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 12, 2007 | Films
The first trailer for Righteous Kill is online.RK stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as NYC detectives that are hunting a serial killer that may be a fellow cop.While De Niro and Pacino were borth in Heat, they only had one real scene together. This time around they...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 10, 2007 | Films
Oliver Stone and Joe Carnahan both are planning on bringing the story of Pablo Escobar to the big screen. Each has quality source material (Stone owns the rights to Mi Hermano Pablo, by Escobar’s brother. Carnahan has Killing Pablo, the acclaimed book by Mark Bowden)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 9, 2007 | Home Entertainment, TV
MGM has announced they will be releasing a 40th anniversary edition of the classic In the Heat of the Night on Jan 15th. SRP will be $19.98While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 8, 2007 | Films
A couple of days ago, I linked to a behind the scenes featurette for Valkyrie.Now the full trailer is online at Yahoo.
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 8, 2007 | Films
White Jazz may not be dead, but it sure isn’t healthy.The hype for White Jazz was pretty great, acclaimed director Joe Carnahan is a fan of the novel and has made it known he wanted to make a classic film from the James Ellroy novel.Oscar Winner/Hollywood icon George...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 7, 2007 | Features
Not me. No thanks. Most noir characters get pretty fucked. Betrayal. Abuse problems. Violence. Lots of violence. No thanks. Take me to the river. Drop in the water. I don’t don’t want no noir lifestyle. A cat I know just died. Dude was only a year older...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 7, 2007 | Films
Apple has a 2:16 featurette on the Bryan Singer/Tom Cruise film Valkyrie.Valkyrie is based on actual events, as a handful of German generals plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of WWII and stars Tom Cruise,Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard and Tom...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 6, 2007 | Home Entertainment
You can tell, by the look of the releases, that it is the holiday season. Of the five notable titles, three are gift sets.Chinatown: Special Collector’s Edition Dir: Roman Polanski; Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Extras: Chinatown: The Beginning and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 5, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she’s thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots. Through everything —...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 5, 2007 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
Mr. BrooksStarring: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Danielle PanabakerDirector: Bruce A. EvansFirst off, I want to say I was a HUGE Kevin Costner fan in the 80’s and early 90’s. I guess I cannot say “was.”...