DVD REVIEW – Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit. Universal Home Entertainment Smokey & The Bandit is a weak concept that worked because of the charm, and chemistry, of it’s cast. Smokey finds Burt Reynolds at his best. Along for the ride is a surprisingly good Jerry Reed, Sally Fields and...

Upcoming DVD's for next week

Black Hawk Down – Extended CutA great move and this extended version looks wonderful ( and read the novelization by Max Allan Collins!)Buy Black Hawk Down – ExtendedButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (2-Disc Collector’s Edition) (1969)Full review to...

Of Dark and Stormy Nights 24

Saturday, June 10, 2006 Hyatt Regency Woodfield 1800 East Golf Road Schaumburg, IL 60173 847-605-1234 http://www.ofdarkandstormynights.com/ We’re very pleased and proud to announce our two headliners for this year’s Of Dark and Stormy Nights: Carolyn Hart...

The DaVinci Code

The book did nothing for me, and am in no hurry to see the movie.But I love all the hype, protests and complaining.I need to write something that will cause an outrage……It seems like a sure fire way to sell more,

Photo Fun!

St. Paul Minnasota It’s a city with very clean clothes And there are authors on every corner with books! Why look, it’s William Kent Krueger!!! St. Paul also has almost no crime. Look at the size of the Sherriff’s Department detention center....

Crimespree Issue 12

Well, it’s on it way. Issue 12 has been delivered to the mailing service and we are in high gear on number 13 featuring the wonderful Karen Slaughter. We are alos well into issue 14 with a great intreview with Greg Rucka coming.We just got our first subscriber...

DVD review: Munich

Munich:Universal Home Entertainment.In 1972, at the Winter Olympics, a group of Arab terrorists kidnapped, and ultimately executed 13 Israeli athletes. After this tragedy, Israel called upon a handful of its citizens to seek out and punish some of the people behind...

Reading is Fundimental

And it’s even better when reading is just plain fun….. In a crime filled kind of a way.Summer is officially here if measured by activity and not the weather which is kind of laughing at us here in the Midwest. We went to see POSEIDON on Friday night, and I...

2 movies, one good one bad

Tonight we watched The Green River Killer, a movie based on the true killings of over 48 prostitutes. Rleased in January of this year it could quite possibly be the worst movie I have ever seen. Not a single recognizable name in the cast, A director I’ve never...

Review – Boston Legal Season 1

Boston Legal: Season OneFox Home Entertainment.If you had told me that I would be watching, and enjoying, a legal drama featuring William Shatner (Here forward referred to as The Shat!) and James Spader, I would have been fairly certain you had been taking illicit...