by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 25, 2012 | Features, TV
On Tuesday, Marcia Clark announced she had signed a deal, with TNT, to bring her character Rachel Knight to the cable network. Knight is a Los Angeles prosecutor and has appeared in two novels (GUILT BY ASSOCIATION and GUILT BY DEGREES). Clark will serve as executive...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 25, 2012 | Books, Five Things
Not necessarily my favorite albums, but definitely “life-changing music,” in roughly chronological order. 1. The Who: “Who’s Next” I heard this at exactly the right time when I was a teenager, about ten years after it was released. It...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 24, 2012 | Films
What we first reported last December is now official: Denzel Washington will play Robert McCall in the upcoming film version of THE EQUALIZER. Deadline is reporting that Sony pictures has set an April 8th start date for production. Sony is partnering with Escape...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 23, 2012 | Books
Is it true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Looking around, it’s tempting to say that the old phrase is right on the money. The big banks have been caught cheating again. The politicians are still calling each other names. Doom and gloom...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 23, 2012 | Books, Pet Spotlight
Writers need felines. Period. We have five cats. All are strays or former feral fur babies. This latest showed up out of the blue a few weeks ago and camped on my door mat, next to the invisible sign that reads “Sucker.” (In the past, a peacock, two dogs,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 22, 2012 | Films, Home Entertainment
Director: Christopher Nolan Writers: Christopher Nolan (screenplay) (story) Jonathan Nolan (screenplay), David S. Goyer (story), Bob Kane (Batman characters) Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 22, 2012 | DVD/Blu Ray Review
Paramount Home Entertainment Release date: July 24th, 2012 The 1962-1963 season was the final season for this noteworthy show, though the network was hoping for a fifth season (Robert Stack wanted to get back to movies). In truth it was probably bout time for it to...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 22, 2012 | Features, Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment Release date: July 24th, 2012 The 1962-1963 season was the final season for this noteworthy show, though the network was hoping for a fifth season (Robert Stack wanted to get back to movies). In truth it was probably bout time for it to...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 21, 2012 | Features, Home Entertainment
Fox Home Entertainment Release date: July 17th, 2012 Leverage is a show that plays perfectly into a part of story telling of the everyman getting back his own. It’s a time tested formula that works. Burn Notice is similar, The Equalizer did it, Travis McGee was great...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 20, 2012 | Books, Five Things
Today, we have a legend of the crime fiction community. James Lee Burke, who will be releasing his 20th novel, CREOLE BELLE, on July 17th, sent us a list of 5 works he feels most influenced his work. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Studs Lonnigan by James...
