by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 7, 2011 | Features, Films
The reason second chances are so riveting in the movies isn’t that they offer hope. Hope doesn’t work in the audience’s viscera. Redemption doesn’t, either. They’re operations of the spirit; they don’t inhabit the digestive tract. A second chance is the frightening...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 6, 2011 | Books
By now, many of you may have heard: Former FBI agent turned author Paul Lindsay passed away last Thursday. Tickle The Wire (a Law Enforcement site) reported it was due to complications from pneumonia. Paul wrote seven novels under his own name and two more under the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 5, 2011 | Features, Home Entertainment
MGM/Fox Home Entertainment Release date: August 2, 2011 MSRP: $16.99 Once upon a time, there was a legendary Japanese filmmaker named Akira Kurosawa. He made many great films, including one called Seven Samurai. Hollywood looked to the land of the Rising Sun, liked...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 2, 2011 | Features, Films
Directed and Written by John Michael McDonagh Starring: Brendson Gleeson, Don Cheedle, Liam Cunningham, Rory Keegan, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan Brendon Gleeson is one of the many fine British/Irish actors that appear in dozens of movies before most Americans know...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 1, 2011 | Features, TV
TNT has announced that Anne Heche and Judd Hisrch have joined the cast of SILENT WITNESS, the telefilm based on the novel of Richard North Patterson. Anne Heche (Hung), Judd Hirsch (Damages), William Devane (24), Titus Welliver (The Good Wife, Lost) and Suleka Mathew...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 31, 2011 | Features, Home Entertainment
CBS/Paramount Home Video Release date: Aug 23, 2011 MSRP: $64.99 It took me a bit to warm up to this spin off of NCIS. I love the original show and I think its damn fine television. When I started watching the west coast version it was kind of like getting a Big Mac...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 31, 2011 | Features, Films
A Guilty Pleasure is an oxymoron, of course, since no true pleasure should make you feel guilty, but we all have enough skeletons in our closet to make a palaeontologist envious. And I’m rattling mine now! Home Alone (1990), Home Alone 2- Lost In New York (1992) Make...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 30, 2011 | Features
Editorial by Jon Jordan Newsbites Hanging with Ayo A Slice of Mystery with Avery Aames The Perils of Writing a History Mystery with Tony Hays COVER STORY: Get Closer to Sara Gran w/ Scott Phillips Sunset Boulevard by Sara Gran Behind the Books with Lisa Unger Crime...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 30, 2011 | Back Issues
Crimespree Magazine issue 43 Table of Contents Editorial by Jon Jordan Newsbites Hanging with Ayo A Slice of Mystery with Avery Aames The Perils of Writing a History Mystery with Tony Hays COVER STORY: Get Closer to Sara Gran w/ Scott Phillips Sunset Boulevard by Sara...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 30, 2011 | Features, Home Entertainment
On October 4th. Acorn Media will release ROSEMARY & THYME: The Complete Collection. Stunning gardens provide the backdrop for this hit British mystery series starring Felicity Kendal as Rosemary Boxer and Pam Ferris as Laura Thyme, professional gardeners and...
