by Crimespree Magazine | May 16, 2011 | TV
A&E’s THE GLADES returns for season two Sunday, June 5 at 10PM ET. Season one averaged just over three million viewers and was the most successful drama in the history of A&E. In “The Glades,” Passmore stars as Jim Longworth, an attractive and brilliant...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 15, 2011 | Home Entertainment
MGM/Fox Home EntertainmentRelease date: May 10th, 2011MSRP: $34.98The Usual Suspects is, in my opinion, one of the best crime films of the last 25 years. Director Bryan Singer and writer Chris McQuarrie crafted an exquisite tale that was blessed by the cinematic gods....
by Crimespree Magazine | May 14, 2011 | TV
Well, it has been a fairly newsworthy week in terms of television dramas. EW is reporting that HBO has ordered a third season of David Simon’s TREME. The show’s audience is somewhat limited, but David Simon has an excellent relationship with HBO and the...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 13, 2011 | Books
Dave White is the author of the heralded Jackson Donne Series and this week he’s back, baby. There’s a new side kick for White’s mayhem. John Brighton is a young school teacher who quickly finds himself in the middle of a murder plot. WITNESS TO DEATH is out...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 11, 2011 | Films, Guilty Pleasures
I like my cheese spicy with extra gunfire, so my choice for Guilty Pleasure would be “Desperado,” the 1995 hit with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. The movie is the middle episode in the “El Mariachi” trilogy, directed by Robert Rodriguez. In...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 9, 2011 | Books
Milwaukee – May 10, 2011 – The nominees for this year’s Anthony Awards, which are given at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, were announced today by conference chair, Jon Jordan and Awards Chair John Purcell.Best NovelBury Your Dead – Louise...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 6, 2011 | Features, Films
Directed by Xavier BeauvoisWritten by Beauvois and Etienne ComarStarring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe LaudenbachThere is a scene near the end in this movie that brought me to tears, an uncommon event. One of the eight monks living in...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 5, 2011 | Books
Before Waleran , before Aliena, before Gwenda and Godwyn and Billy Williams, there was Faber, the German spy, an assassin known as “the Needle.” I don’t remember how many years ago I first read Ken Follet’s, The Eye of the Needle, but I will never forget...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 5, 2011 | Comics
Everybody likes Batman. Seriously. He’s the character that people just enjoy. There isn’t anyone that will say “I hate Batman” because Batman is cool. He’s the epitome of cool. There might be characters that people like more, but no one hates Batman. Thanks to movies,...
