by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 19, 2008 | TV
“Money Shot, latest episode of The Shield continues to deepen the ravine which Vic, Shane and Ronnie have found themselves trapped. The fabric of lies around which Vic’s life is constructed has never looked thinner but it seems Vic himself is still...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2008 | Features
So I’m not going to try and say a lot. James Crumley is gone. Laura Lippman has posted an interview she did with Jim for Crimespree a few years back on her Memory Project. To say that one of my favorite moments in the history of our magazine was having the finished...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2008 | Films
Frankie, Dean, Sammy and co may be heading back to the silver screen.Iconic Crime writer Robert Randisi has sold the films rights to Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime to Sandy Hackett, son of the late comedian Buddy Hackett.The novel features the legendary Rat Pack...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2008 | Features, TV
HBO has ordered a second season of True Blood, the series based on the novels of Charlaine Harris.Anna Paquin stars as telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and Stephen Moyer is Bill Compton, her vampire boyfriend. The series debut netted over four million viewers and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2008 | Films
After getting praise for his take on Dennis Lehane’s Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck is looking at the work of Chuck Hogan for his second directorial effort.Affleck is currently in negotiations to direct, and star, in The Town, based on Prince of Thieves by Chuck...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2008 | Films
After taking on the hardboiled and con man genres, writer/director Rian Johnson is planning on heading into sci-fi.Johnson, the creator of Brick and the forthcoming The Brothers Bloom, has announced his next project will be Looper.”Looper is set in a present-day...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2008 | TV
TNT has ordered new seasons of Raising the Bar and Saving Grace.Raising the Bar, a new legal series by Steven Bochco, has aired three episodes and is averaging over five million viewers.Saving Grace averaged 4.4 million viewers during the first half of its second...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 16, 2008 | Films
Boston Teran’s God is a Bullet has a new lease on life, cinematically speaking.Ehren Kruger is adapting the gritty novel.”The feral wasteland of the southern California desert and the badlands of Mexico: these are the settings for Boston Teran’s...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 16, 2008 | TV
Homicide: Life on the Streets was a brilliant series that launched the television careers of two very talented men: David Simon and Tony Fontana.Simon, who wrote the book that the series was based on, went on to create The Wire and Generation Kill, while Fontana gave...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 16, 2008 | Features
In keeping with our music titles theme we are going to be having a Karaoke bar running concurrently with the panels. This will be a half hour for authors or anyone else for that matter to do what ever they want to do for a half hour.The spots will be filled on a first...
