by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 18, 2011 | TV
Detective John Cardinal may be coming to Canadian television. Author Giles Blunt has signed a deal with Bell Media, parent company of CTV, to develop his John Cardinal books for television. The deal calls for Blunt to adapt his own work into a six episode series,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 18, 2011 | Home Entertainment
Warner Home Video Release date: June 7, 2011 MSRP: DVD $21.98, DVD collector’s edition $39.98, Blu-ray collector’s edition $44.98 Most AC/DC fans today are likely only familiar with Brian Johnson’s coarse war cry. The Austrailian band iconic Back In...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 17, 2011 | Films
Numerous trades have reported that actor/screenwriter-turned-director Ben Affleck will be direct the Hollywood film version of Harlan Coben’s TELL NO ONE. The book was already made into a very successful French film. It was the success of the French film that...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 17, 2011 | Features, Films
Directed by S.J. ClarksonWritten by Lee Hail, based on the memoir by Chef, Nigel Slater’s: Toast: The Story of a Boy’s HungerStarring: Oscar Kennedy, Freddie Highmore, Ken Stott, Helena Bonham Carter, Victoria HamiltonI can almost guarantee that if Helena Bonham...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 16, 2011 | Home Entertainment
MGM Home EntertainmentRelease date: May 24, 2011MSRP: $29.99Director: Oliver StoneStars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, The impact of Platoon can’t be overstated. When it prevmiered, vets stumbled out of theaters,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 15, 2011 | Films
The Lord of the Rings, 1978 Directed by Ralph Bakshi Maybe I should start with my capsule review of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy: It was … fine. To be a bit more specific, I found it to be a striking visual spectacle, yet ultimately flawed. So …...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 13, 2011 | Films
At this moment in time, the mystery community is abuzz with the news that Tom Cruise might play Jack Reacher,a former Military police officer wanders the country and often wanders into nasty situations that requite him to pound the shit out of assorted McNasties, in...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 13, 2011 | Books
Say this for Team Bondi, the independent Australian studio behind the new Rockstar Games release L.A. Noire: they don’t think small. Structuring their maiden launch around sophisticated motion scan technology wasn’t enough of a challenge. They had to revive a dormant...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 13, 2011 | Features
Fox Home EntertainmentRelease date: June 7, 2011MSRP: $48.98For those that are not familiar with the series, White Collar is about Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a brilliant thief and con man. Neal is out of prison under an agreement that has him working with the man that...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 8, 2011 | Films
Yeah, the headline is a bad one, but I could not help myself.Chris Columbus has picked up the option for Michael Koryta’s THE CYPRESS HOUSE. The story is set along an isolated stretch of the Florida Gulf Coast during the devastating 1935 hurricane. The...
