by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 16, 2011 | Features, Films
The details of The 10th Annual San Francisco Noir Film Festival have been released. NOIR CITY X will take place from Jan 20 to Jan 29th of the year 2012. All screenings will be at The Castro Theater. And this year will feature a very special guest: ANGIE DICKINSON!...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 16, 2011 | Features, Films
Directed and Written by Alexander Payne (with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard This is not a comedy. That’s...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 15, 2011 | Features, Films
Deadline is reporting that Sacha Gervasi will be handling writing duties for the English language version of Jo Nesbø’s HEADHUNTERS. Headhunters introduces us to the charming villain Roger Brown, a man who seems to have it all: he is Norway’s most successful...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 14, 2011 | Features, TV
Josh Bazell’s critically acclaimed debut novel, BEAT THE REAPER, has taken a big step towards becoming a television series. Deadline is reporting that HBO has purchased the rights to the proposed series. New Regency would produce it with Leonardo DiCaprio acting...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 14, 2011 | Features, Films
You’re The One That I Want Sometimes you just need a little cheese. Okay, maybe a lot. And along with the cheese, you need a healthy serving of singing, dancing, ducktails and fast cars. I’m talking Grease. Yeah, baby, Grease is the word when it comes to cheesy but...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 13, 2011 | Features, Films
Hollywood has been kicking around THE EQUALIZER for years now. Award-winning author Michael Connelly (of Harry Bosch fame) and Terrill Lee Lankford to wrote a screenplay for the Weinstein company with Paul McGuigan (WICKER PARK, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN) directing. But...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 9, 2011 | Features, Films
Directed by Clint Eastwood Written by Dustin Lance Black Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Judi Dench Plot: This, of course, is the story of J. Edgar Hoover, the man who headed the F.B.I from 1924 to 1972. For me, the movie’s most...
by Kate (and Dan) | Dec 8, 2011 | Comics
Welcome back for another installment of Kate (and Dan) Read Comics! For today’s column, we’re happy to offer you something special. What follows is the first ever interview ever done for K (&D) RC! Minneapolis illustrator Mitch Gerads was kind enough to take time...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 7, 2011 | Features, Films
My guilty pleasure is a Robert Altman film. The Long Goodbye, that beatnik take on Chandler? No, but I do like that movie. McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the revisionist Western? Nope, I’m talking about Popeye. Wait a minute, Altman directed that? With Robin Williams...
