by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 10, 2011 | Features, Films
Editor’s Note: Today’s scheduled participant was unavoidably detained, but Sophie Littlefield, the rockstar that she is, sent her essay in a month early. So today is SOPHIE LITTLEFIELD Day!!!! I like my tales dark, with redemption thin on the ground and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 3, 2011 | Features, Films
In later years I would recognize that Kevin Costner once made good films. Films like No Way Out, Revenge, Bull Durham, The Untouchables – guy won a directing Oscar for Dances With Wolves, even. But on my eighth birthday at the Pavillion Theater, Kevin Costner...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 27, 2011 | Features, Films
“Mr. Bond, you appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.” “I didn’t know there were seasons in space, Drax.” “You will only know winter.” I am a die hard James Bond fan. I’ll watch almost all the movies any time they’re on, and I champion the good...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 20, 2011 | Features, Films
When Jeremy asked me to write this piece, I half expected to come up with an argument that there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. I don’t watch many movies or television shows, but when I do, it’s usually something with at least one crime, explosion, and/or car...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 13, 2011 | Features, Films
After a hard day of killing people, I relax with a movie. I don’t want to see blood, murder, or guns. They remind me of work. My husband Don got tired of hearing me critique crime movies: “You can’t freeze your own blood and then use it later to fake your own death –...
