by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 23, 2007 | Features
Well, Anchorage has done their job and done it well. Bouchecon 2007 is part of B-Con history.Which means Baltimore is next.This past weekend we sat down and started laying out some ideas and plans. To that end I have a couple questions for anyone reading this.What was...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 22, 2007 | Features
Affleck’s choice for his directorial debut is somewhat surprising and yet makes sense at the same time. On the one hand, he is adapting the work of an author whose material has already produced a modern classic crime drama (Mystic River) so the bar is already set...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 21, 2007 | Films
In the last day, news has broken that Oscar winner George Clooney has dropped out of White Jazz. WJ is based on the novel by James Ellroy.Entertainment Weekly broke the news early Sunday morning, stating that Clooney’s schedule was too heavy at the moment.Last...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 21, 2007 | TV
Numb3rs is kind of like CSI only with math instead of forensics.Season three is my favorite thus far for one simple reason: they have put more time in character development. It is not so heavy as to take away from the main stories of crime solving, but it is enough to...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 21, 2007 | Home Entertainment, TV
I always thought Criminal Minds (CBS/ Paramount) was a decent show. It never made my ‘gotta see it’ list, but if I spun by and it was on, I would usually watch. So when the opportunity to review season 2 came up I said; ‘Sure, it’s a decent...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 20, 2007 | Films
This is just a rumor at this point so take it with a grain of salt.There are reports going around that Charlize Theron will be playing Glenda Bledsoe, a hollywood startlet that Dave Klein (George Clooney) falls for, in White Jazz.Carnahan has previously voiced his...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 18, 2007 | Films
About 2 1/2 months ago, a site appeared online entitled Why So Serious? It was a promotional site for the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight.It has been updated with Halloween theme: A jack 0′ lantern (with a batman logo-shaped mouth) with a candle in...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 18, 2007 | Films
Universal has provided a couple film sites with twelve clips from Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. Based on a New York magazine article by Mark Jacobson, AG tells the story of Frank Lucas, Harlem drug kingpin that had heroin smuggled in from Asia in the coffins...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 17, 2007 | Features
Planet Terror is Robert Rodriguez’ half of Grindhouse. GH was a concept dreamed up by RR and Quentin Tarantino. They each filmed a film that was an homage to the old 70s exploitation flicks. These two films, along with a handful of trailers (for movies that don’t...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 16, 2007 | Films
I previously posted that Chris Pine was up not only for a key role in ths film version of James Ellroy’s White Jazz, but for the role of Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. Attempts were being made to work out the scheduling conflicts so Pine could take both roles. It...
