by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 25, 2006 | Features
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 — TV) BBC docudrama starring Olivia Williams. (Acorn Media).The BBC takes a look at the person behind the legend in this docudrama that covers everything including her mysterious disappearance in 1926.Agatha Christie...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 25, 2006 | Home Entertainment
The plan for Apocalypse Now Special Collectors Edition was pretty straight forward. Check out the add ons and review them. The best laid mice of plans and men. I decided to watch some of it to refresh Imagine my surprise when I was three or four minutes in and it...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 25, 2006 | Features
Threshold (CBS/Paramount DVD) is the entire 2005 series up ’til the plug was pulled. It’s nine hours and fifteen minutes long and left me wanting more. There are four discs and twelve stories including the two hour pilot, plus deleted scenes and specials....
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 25, 2006 | Features
Al Collins and his lovely wife, Barbara, were in Milwaukee last night singing their latest collaboration, ANTIQUES ROADKILL. Al also signed his latest from Hardcase Crime, along with anything else people brought in. For me, this meant getting some older Ms. Tree...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 22, 2006 | Features
Aug 22ndBeyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) Dir.: Irwin Allen; Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Shirley Knight, Shirley Jones, Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Veronica Hamel, Angela Cartwright, Mark Harmon. Sequel to 1972’s...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2006 | Events, Features
We’ve got about 5 weeks until it’s game time again. Mystery fans, writers and booksellers all gathered in one place to … well, to drink a lot, hang out, and share our love of mysteries. The panel assignments have gone out and the ladies in charge are...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 11, 2006 | Features
Apocalypse Now – The Complete Dossier $19.99 Extras: Commentary by Francis Ford Coppola, Watch Apocalypse Now with Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando’s complete reading of T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”, Lost “Monkey Sampan”...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 10, 2006 | Home Entertainment
Classic Peter Lorre playing a wonderful detective based on the books of JP Marquand. This was a real joy to watch. I have vague recollections of these movies from the days before cable television when the local independant station would run them on Saturday...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 10, 2006 | Features
I never watched this show when it was on network primetime. I didn’t see any reruns. I never really had any interest in it. Lawyers in a Tom Clancy setting, that’s what I thought. Jeremy asked if I would review the DVD set of season 1, I said sure, why...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 8, 2006 | Features
Brick Universal Studios Fans of hard-boiled literature and cinema MUST see Brick. This is a fantastic small film (made for $500K) that is refreshing in this day and age of exotic locals and huge explosions. Brendan, our hero, is a loner that sits on the edge of...
