Monk – December 22 Episode

A very special episode of Monk is coming up just before Christmas. A film noir episode done in Black and White. A classic femme fatale, a missing millionaire, and of course a murder.It’s a very fun episode and I thought the way they shot it really did feel like...

St. Elsewhere

CENTURY CITY , Calif. – Before ER and Chicago Hope , audiences were mesmerized by the dramatic triumphs and humorous failings of Doctors Craig, Westphall and Ehrlich of Boston’s St. Eligius Hospital – an understaffed, underfunded and always chaotic teaching...

Robert Altman 1925-2006

Robert Altman was my favorite director. While I would not call him the greatest, I would call him one of the most original. Sitting down to view his latest, I never knew if I was going to get something amazing like Short Cuts, or something horrid like Prêt-à-Porter....

A Quick Five With Mark Billingham

1.) DEATH MESSAGE. I want to put an exclamation point after that. It’s so very dramatic. Tell me about this next book and how you came up with this fabulous title. And, yes, despite the lack of a question mark, this is a question.”Delivering the...

Film Preview: Casino Royale

For the last few years, there has been much speculation as to who would be the latest actor to take up the role of James Bond. Six actors have picked up 007’s license to kill, to varying degrees of success.Virtually every popular actor with an accent has been rumored...

Chicago Stylings

Chicago….I like my hot dogs done Chicago style, and I like my Pizza done Chicago style too.I also like Chicago Mysteries.That’s why I read The Outfit Blog

DVD Review: The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci CodeSony Home EntertainmentMy name is Jeremy and up to recently, I had neither read nor seen The Da Vinci Code. I know, I know, it is what EVERYBODY is reading and watching. That is why I had not. Call it snobbery, but if that many folk are praising it,...

DVD Review: The Chairman

The Chairman Fox Home Entertainment 1969’s The Chairman, directed by J. Lee Thompson, is expectedly, a little dated. What passes for high tech gizmos is downright laughable in this age of Bondish excess. Still it never set out to be the Belle of the Ball, just a...

Those Wacky Killer Year Kids

Well, the Killer Year authors have pulled another pretty damn cool move. They will have an anthology out next year from St. Martin’s edited by one Lee Child. Stories from killer year members and some of thier mentors from the Thrillers Witers International. From...