Lee takes a look at Fox's Fringe.

by | Sep 19, 2008 | TV

With so many new shows debuting this month, it is hard to decide what is worth a look and what it not. Lee decided take a minute to give us a heads up on a show he thinks might be worth checking out.One to watch is Fringe(Fox)starring Anna Torv as FBI agent Olivia...

The Shield – 703 – Money Shot

by | 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...

The Desert

by | 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...

Rat Pack coming to be theaters?

by | 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...

HBO orders second season of True Blood.

by | 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...

Rian Johnson to tackle sci-fi next.

by | 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...

TNT renews two dramas.

by | 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...

Teran's Bullet seeing some movement.

by | 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...

Homicide creators to team up again for HBO.

by | 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...