by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 16, 2008 | Features
It seems lately that more and more I am talking about the mystery genre to people. People who are not swimming in it the way Ruth and I are or the way our friends are.It set my mnd going in a couple directions.I often get asked to name favorites. Favorite books,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 16, 2008 | Features, Jon Thoughts
It seems lately that more and more I am talking about the mystery genre to people. People who are not swimming in it the way Ruth and I are or the way our friends are. It set my mnd going in a couple directions. I often get asked to name favorites. Favorite books....
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 15, 2008 | Films
Fox has released the poster for Street Kings (formally known as The Night Watchman).Iconic author James Ellroy (Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential) penned the script, with David Ayer handling directing duties. Ayer previously directed Harsh Times as well as having...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 14, 2008 | Films
Paramount has announced a release date for whatever the hell they end up calling the film based on the Dennis Lehane novel that is called Shutter Island.It was Shutter Island, then it was Ashecliffe (named after the asylum on Shutter Island) and now it appears to be...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 14, 2008 | Films
I am now as giddy as a schoolgirl.Half of the trailer is simply shots of the first three films, but what we do see of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does look fun.It opens on May 22nd.Check out the trailer.
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 14, 2008 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
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 | Feb 13, 2008 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
Watching this 1970’s action/drama series is like visting with old friends. Kevin Tighe and the impossibly skinny Randoph Mantooth return as paramedic partners Roy DeSoto and Johnny Gage in this 1970’s Jack Webb produced action/drama. There were almost no casting...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 13, 2008 | Home Entertainment, TV
Yahoo has a trailer for Steet Kings (Formally The Night Watchman).It is interesting in that I know what it is about, but would never have figured it out from the trailer. Street Kings is about corruption in the police department, yet the trailer is cut to make it look...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 12, 2008 | Films
Ethan and Joel Coen will be tackling Yiddish-noir. No, this is not the name of a new short story collection, but rather the general flavor of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon’s bestselling novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.””For sixty years, Jewish...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 11, 2008 | Features
Actor Roy Scheider passed away Sunday at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. He was 75. The cause of death was complications arising from a Staph infection.RS was best known as Chief Brody in JAWS, a role for which he was not the first...
