by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 7, 2009 | TV
As I said Thursday, NUMB3RS appears to be coming to an end. The show has had it’s order cut from 22 to 16 episodes, something that is likely the beginning of the end.But there is a bit of good news for fans: The show plans on wrapping things up:Co-creator Cheryl...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 6, 2009 | Films
The folks over at Coming Soon have provided the world with the first look at the new Jessica Alba promotional poster for MACHETE.The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 5, 2009 | Films
We have a trailer for THE KILLER INSIDE ME.Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom’s THE KILLER INSIDE ME tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy Lou Ford.Small town deputy Lou...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 5, 2009 | TV
Can you file this one under “say it ain’t so!”CBS has cut NUMB3RS sixth season from 22 episodes to 16. This does not bode well for what I think is one of the best police procedurals on televison today. My guess is that this will be the final season...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 4, 2009 | Films
We are a month and a half from seeing Guy Ritchie’s vision of SHERLOCK HOLMES. Part of me is excited, the other part is expecting a total turkey.Here is the third trailer and it does little to move me one way or the other. There are several bits that look like...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 4, 2009 | Features
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics Volume I Five-disc set of five restored and digitally re-mastered Film Noir classics: The Sniper, The Big Heat, 5 Against The House, Murder By Contract and The Line-up. $59.95. (Sony) In the 1940s, a new genre – film noir...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 3, 2009 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
UFC 100 was promoted as the 100th big show (they run smaller live shows on Spike) of the company’s history. This is not true since they ran a 37.5 as well as a few non-numbered shows back in the early days.Regardless, this was a major show for the company and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 3, 2009 | TV
Word recently came that TNT ordered a pilot for the George Clooney-produced series DELTA BLUES. The series is about an excellent cop that moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother.Word comes, via THR, that Clark Johnson will direct the pilot....
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 2, 2009 | Films
We originally reported that Ben Affleck’s production company, LivePlanet, was bringing Marcus Sakey’s THE BLADE ITSELF to the big screen. That was two years ago. Last December, Marcus expressed his happiness with the screenplay.Now Pajiba is reporting that...
by Crimespree Magazine | Nov 2, 2009 | Features
Today we’re joined by Gayle Trent, whose book Dead Pan is being released in November by Bell Bridge Books, a subsidiary of BelleBooks. Dead Pan is the second book in the Daphne Martin cozy mystery series and features an amateur sleuth who is a full-time cake...