by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 26, 2007 | Films
Sherlock Holmes is aiming to return to a theater near you. Not that stuffy, intellectual Holmes, but rather a Holmes that is more than ready to roll up his sleeves and beat the everlovin’ snot out of wrongdoers everywhere.Producer Lionel Wigram has written an as yet...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 20, 2007 | DVD/Blu Ray Review, Home Entertainment
Michael Shayne Mysteries Vol.1 Twentieth Century Fox The series of movies in this set–Michael Shayne Private Detective, The Man Who Wouldn’t Die, Sleepers West and Blue White and Perfect–star Lloyd Nolan as Michael Shayne. Nolan had a long career in...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 17, 2007 | Films
The film version of Greg Rucka’s Whiteout is currently filming in Canada. Kate Beckinsale (Underworld, Pearl Harbor) is starring as U.S. Marshall Carrie Stetko. Stetko has been sent to Antarctica to solve the continent’s first murder. The six months of sun...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 2, 2007 | Films
Our pal J. Kingston Pierce talked yesterday on the Rap Sheet about a couple of film projects, based on the work of James Ellroy, that might be butting heads.In my Eye On Hollywood column in Crimespree magazine, I talked about Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin’ Ace)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 28, 2007 | Home Entertainment
Ruth Rendell Mysteries 1 Acorn media The Ruth Rendell Mysteries(Acorn Media) are…mysterious. Sort of as if Stephen King and Agatha Christie had spawned. And the first two in the set, Master of the Moor and Vanity Dies Hard, are flat depressing. I mean stick your...