DVD Review: MANNIX: The Sixth Season

Paramount Home Entertainment Release date: Jan 24, 2012 MSRP: $49.99 Originally airing in fall of 1972 Season 6 of Mannix opens with a bang, literally as a cop is killed in front of Joe Mannix. The shooter wants a deal in return for helping find a missing Judge, but...

ARCHIE: THE MARRIED LIFE

ARCHIE: THE MARRIED LIFE Archie Comics Oct 4th, 2011 Written by Michael Uslan and Paul Luperberg with pencils by Norm Breyfogle Archie: The Married Life collects the first of this post marriage story arc that started back with Life with Archie #600. Now I have always...

Film Review: A SEPARATION

A Separation Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi Starring Peyman Noadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi A Separation just won the Oscar for the best foreign language film. It may have also been the best movie I saw from the 2011 nominees...

Crimespree on Comics: BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED #1

Here’s what I knew about Batman Beyond before I read this: Terry McGinnis is the new generation of Batman and is mentored by angry old-man Bruce Wayne. And I wasn’t interested. After reading Unlimited I learned I was wrong about one thing, the future is bright. The...

Interview with Joe Finder

An interview with Joe Finder by Judy Bobalik. The first time I met Joe Finder was in 2006 at the first Thrillerfest in Phoenix. Reed Coleman introduced us. We didn’t cross paths again until 2008, when I was co-chair for the Baltimore Bouchercon. We had several email...

Be A Superhero.

There is a great photo making its way around the Internet right now. It’s a little boy dressed up as Batman. The caption reads, “The most important thing in life is to be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Always be Batman.” What kid wouldn’t want to be a superhero!...

5 Books & Albums that changed my life: Chelsea Cain

JOHN PRINE – JOHN PRINE. I don’t know how my parents came across John Prine’s first album, the aptly titled “JOHN PRINE.” Sometime probably brought it by the back-to-the-land commune they were living on. People did that back then. If you got a record you really liked,...