by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 28, 2011 | Features, Films, Monday Movie Quotes
Gus is Billy’s catcher. Gus Sinski (John C. Reilly): Trying to take my hand off? Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner): Sorry. Gus Sinski: Just let me set for that juice. Warn me or something. Billy Chapel: I’m gonna throw a little harder than usual today....
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 27, 2011 | TV
MILDRED PIERCE debuts tonight on HBO and the buzz is quite strong. Parts 1 and 2 will air tonight, part 3 on April 3rd and parts 4 and 5 on April 10th. Here are the summaries of tonight’s episodes. PART ONE Debut for PART ONE and PART TWO: SUNDAY, MARCH 27...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 27, 2011 | Features, Films
About 12 years ago, I was getting ready for my junior prom and was looking for some mood music. As you know, proms are formal, pretty affairs so that meant music of a grimy and mean nature was required. It was a simple choice…Motorhead. With that, a tradition was...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 26, 2011 | Features, TV
FRINGE When Fox moved Fringe to Fridays, many thought it was the beginning of the end. Truth is that it may well have saved the show. Despite weak numbers, the network is happy enough with the show’s Friday performance to order a fourth season. As we have...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 26, 2011 | Books, Comics
The Walking Dead Matthew Funk Spoiler alert: Everyone dies at the end. True fact. Don’t let Stephenie Meyer sell you on wet dreams of sparkly immortality. Everybody’s going to bite the big one sooner or later. That’s life, as they say. The Walking Dead throws this...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 26, 2011 | Books
THE LOST SISTER.St. MartinsPrior to reading this, Russel McLean was merely a likable fellow I shared a couple drinks with. That seemed reason enough to read one of his books. Thank goodness for those adult beverages because had I not been inclined to pick up The Lost...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 25, 2011 | Features, Films
Directed by Iciar BallainWritten by Paul LavertyStarring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar, Juan Carlos AduviriThis is a harrowing film. It also is a very good one. I knew both facts going into the theater, but made a conscious choice to bear up. The fact that is...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 24, 2011 | Books, Comics
A number of years ago a group of comic creators who were a bit frustrated with the mainstream got together and formed their own comic company. No I’m not talking about Image, it was another company called CrossGen. They steered away from the superhero and did...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 23, 2011 | Books
What first made me a mystery lover?I’ve been thinking about that question a great deal this spring, as the publication of my fifth mystery novel looms. What exactly about mystery caught me in its grip? The intrigue? The window into the darker side of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 23, 2011 | Features, Films
Lord Jeremy invited me to contribute to this blog and as his leige, I obeyed. The most difficult thing for me was to narrow my “repeat watchers” to only one. There are perhaps 20-25 movies which I own on VHS as well as DVD (don’t start, OK?) and yet, if I see them on...
