by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 7, 2008 | Features
Paramount has announced that THERE WILL BE BLOOD will be released, on DVD, on April 4th. “A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 6, 2008 | Author Interviews, Features
This ran in Crimespree #22 Ed Brubaker makes me wish I had a time machine. I want to send him back to, say, December 1950, dead broke, with nothing more than a typewriter, ream of paper, and the address of Gold Medal books editor Richard Carroll. Then, I’d just sit...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 6, 2008 | Comics, Reviews
BATMAN: FALSE FACES Brian K Vaughan 2008 DC Comics Before he started working for TV’s Lost and before his amazing PRIDE OF BAGHDAD Vaughan wrote some pretty fun Batman tales. I love his work on Ex-Machina and Y The Last Man is wonderful but seeing him work in the DC...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 5, 2008 | Home Entertainment, TV
It is about damn time. Fox has announced the details for the season one DVD release of the USA series Burn Notice. “Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he’s being burned, and someone’s going to pay! When...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 4, 2008 | Features, Home Entertainment
12 Angry Men: 50th Anniversary Edition Dir: Sidney Lumet; Henry Fonda, Jack Warden, Lee j. Cobb Extras: Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: The Making of 12 Angry Men, Inside The Jury Room. Sidney Lumet’s first film is a true classic. While star Henry Fonda does a fine job,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 4, 2008 | TV
TNT issued a press release announcing their plans to have almost all original prime time programming by 2010. Among the projects announced is one based on the novels of crime author Tess Gerritsen. “Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and police detective Jane...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 3, 2008 | Features
By this time last year, Crimespree was exuding information and enthusiasm for the State of Kentucky, the infamous and entirely charming Zev Buffman and a new mystery festival. The International Mystery Writers’ Festival. Our enthusiasm has many in the Midwest...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 3, 2008 | Home Entertainment
Lucasfilm has announced they will be releasing special editions of the three Indiana Jones films. Each will have a SRP of $26.98 and will be released on May 13th.Raiders of the Lost Ark appears to have been renamed Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark....
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 3, 2008 | TV
The addition of original dramas to cable television has resulted in some incredible shows: The Wire, Dexter, The Sapranos, The Shield, Rescue Me…the list is a long one.2007 saw FX offer up a show that may very well end up sitting up at the very top with some the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 2, 2008 | TV
Episode #59: “Late Editions”Debut: SUNDAY, MARCH 2 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)With Steintorf (Neal Huff) ordering Rawls (John Doman) to initiate “creative” remedies for the rising crime rate.Freamon’s (Clarke Peters) vigilance pays off with a...