Guilty Pleasures: Tom Schreck

It’s no secret I’m an Elvis fan. I like to think of myself as an intellectual follower of the king. In fact I’ve become online buddies with professors who teach college level courses on Elvis at the University of Iowa and at Tennessee State University. Yeah, I...

2011: A Year Like No Other

The List Book I most enjoyed rolling around in bed with: Christa Faust’s CHOKE HOLD Best use of amnesia in the 21st Century: THE TWO DEATH’S OF DANIEL HAYES by Marcus Sakey. Favorite Burger: Stacked (Milwaukee) Conversation generating cover: GETTING OFF by Lawrence...

Film Review: THE ARTIST

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

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

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,...