Film Review: THE ARTIST

by | Dec 30, 2011 | Features, Films

Written and Directed by Michel Hazanavisius Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller This is a film impossible to imagine without the face and talent of Jean Dujardin, its lead actor. If anyone can resurrect the type of...

Crimespree on Comics: Jo Schmidt – WITCHBLADE

by | Dec 29, 2011 | Comics

Witchblade: The Best Book You Never Thought Would Be Any Good I know. How on Earth do you take her seriously? Look at her. She’s some lonely comic artist’s desperate fantasy of a woman. She’s a cop with a living gauntlet that tears off her clothes when in use. The...

Guilty Pleasures: Meg Gardiner

by | Dec 28, 2011 | Features, Films

Guilty Pleasures: THE CORE I’m a massive fan of disaster movies. I grew up in the ’70s, the decade that gave us Earthquake and The Poseidon Adventure. A love of catastrophe is in my blood. And disaster movies are about who dies, who survives, and why—courage,...

Launch party for Reed Coleman's HURT MACHINE.

by | Dec 23, 2011 | Books

Award-winning author, Crimespree contributor and all-around good guy Reed Farrel Coleman celebrated the release of HURT MACHINE (Tyrus Books), at The Mysterious bookshop, on December 12th. At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his...