by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 13, 2008 | Features
Jason Aaron Interview Jason Aaron is the writer and creator of a wonderful graphic novel series called Scalped from Vertigo Comics. This interview ran in a recent issue of Crimespree Jon: Jason, I know you are currently working on SCALPED for Vertigo comics right now....
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 13, 2008 | Comics, Features
Jason Aaron is the writer and creator of a wonderful graphic novel series called Scalped from Vertigo Comics. This interview ran in a recent issue of Crimespree Jon: Jason, I know you are currently working on SCALPED for Vertigo Comics right now. How would you...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 13, 2008 | Comics, Reviews
Hawaiian Dick: Byrd of Paradise Image Comics (trade) B. Clay Moore has written a wonderful noir tale in this first volume of his series. Our protaganist is Byrd, a man living on the islands in an exile of sorts. He’s pals with a local cop and that comes in handy...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 11, 2008 | Home Entertainment, TV
Talented private-investigator-turned-novelist Sean Chercover has sold the television rights to his critically acclaimed and commercially successful first novel, Big City, Bad Blood–along with its protagonist, Ray Dudgeon–to Fox studios.Paul Guyot...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 9, 2008 | Features
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that season one of Andy Griffith’s Matlock is coming to DVD on April 4th.Matlock starred Andy Griffith as “defense attorney Ben Matlock – a Harvard-educated, fiery southerner who charges $100,000 a case to...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 8, 2008 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
Reviewing Zodiac has proven tough for me. I never posted a review for it’s theatrical release because I struggled to figure out exactly what I thought of it.On the one hand, Zodiac is beautifully shot and well acted. Fincher and crew have painstaking gone over all...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 7, 2008 | Films
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood, Four Brothers) had signed on to direct the big screen version of The A-Team. At that time, there were plenty of rumors floating around as to who might star.One of those rumors had...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 7, 2008 | Home Entertainment, TV
Now in its ninth week, the WGA strike seriously threatens the remainder of the 2007-08 season. As a follow-up to my profile of the season’s new crime shows, four shows stand out as my favorite. I hope the writers and studios find common ground, so I can find out...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 5, 2008 | Home Entertainment
Shoot em up can be summed up in two words: Gratuitous violence. But what fun gratuitous violence it is. What we have here is a general outline of a plot whose purpose is to give us a setting for some of the crazier shootouts seen in recent years.We start out with Mr....
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 4, 2008 | Films
A couple of weeks ago, a camcorder version of the trailer for the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight, went up on Youtube.Now the proper version is up, in all it’s HD glory.I am beyond stoked for this. Heath Ledger looks awsome as The Joker, a nice mix of...
