by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 4, 2010 | Home Entertainment
Acorn Media has announced they will be releasing BLUE MURDER: The Complete Collection on Feb 1, 2011.Caroline Quentin stars as Detective Chief Inspector of the Manchester Police force. Jane struggles to not just excell at her job, but also raise four children by...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 3, 2010 | Films
As most of you know, Victor Gischler is a hell of a writer. Nothing new there, but in the last year, Hollywood has come to realize that as well. At the time of this writing, Victor has four novels optioned as well as one original screenplay in development.Earlier this...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 2, 2010 | Home Entertainment
Over the next few weeks, we will offer up some gift suggestions for the Holidays. Today, we will look at some television sets:AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE THE GERALDINE McEWAN COLLECTION (Acorn Media) is something that works for the reader of traditional British...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 2, 2010 | Features
Bigger….Better…BACK! The Midwest’s ONLY readers’ and writers’ mystery, romantic suspense, thriller and dark fiction conference returns to Chicago Feb. 4-6, 2011 at the Intercontinental O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont. * Meet renowned...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 1, 2010 | Home Entertainment
Acorn Media has announced that DIRTY TRICKS will be released, on DVD, on January 4th, 2011.DT is based on the novel by the late Michael Dibdin and stars Michael Clune (DOC MARTIN, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) as Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school and a...
by Crimespree Magazine | Dec 1, 2010 | Features, Guilty Pleasures
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls:Welcome to the first installment of GUILTY PLEASURES. Each Wednesday, one of our fellow members of the crime community will talk about a film they consider to be a guilty pleasure.We start things off with our Movie Maven Patti...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 29, 2010 | Monday Movie Quotes
Rumack (Leslie Nielsen): You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital. Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hargarty): A hospital? What is it? Rumack: It’s a big building with patients, but...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 26, 2010 | Features, Films
Directed by Tony ScottWritten by Mark BombackStarring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario DawsonReleased Novemeber 121 hour 38 minutesIt’s hard to come up with another film as perfectly crafted as this one. There is no slack in it—none at all. It’s not the type of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 25, 2010 | TV
To all that celebrate it, I want to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING.I am thankful for my dear wife and mother, they are the two most important people in my life.Last year, I posted one of the two most important celebrations (The other being A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING) of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 24, 2010 | Guilty Pleasures
Gather round, my crime fiction family, now is the time to unburden your soul. Deep down in the darkest recesses of your being lies guilt…guilt from films that you would never admit to watching, much less enjoying. But the time has come for you to confess your...
