by Chris La Tray
Cocaine Cowboys (2006) is a must-see for anyone interested in the crime genre, fictional or otherwise. It is a documentary about the drug trade in Miami in the 70s and 80s, basically up until Reagan launched his version of the War on Drugs in the late 80s. It has interviews with manyRead More
By Richard Serrao
Garth Ennis’ Crossed
This week I wanted to do something a little bit different, so I thought I’d do a review for a comic that has continually been on my must read list for the past year, give or take.
I know some people will say hey this isn’t a crime comic but rather horror.Read More
By Richard Serrao
Today I have a special movie review for you guys out there. I think we’ve all become a bit disillusioned when It comes to movies in general, especially action films. The movie posters and trailers make all sorts of promises and never seem to deliver the things we want to see. Once inRead More
By Jason Thibault
Artist Sean Phillips previewed the trade jacket for the Sinners collection pictured below. Sinners is the latest miniseries under his and writer Ed Brubaker’s Criminal moniker published by Marvel’s ICON imprint.
And while we’re at it here’s Phillips’ rendition of Chuck Bronson.
Now that FOX launched the new Warner Bros. television series HUMAN TARGET inRead More
HBO’s The Wire ran for five seasons from 2002 until 2008 and was probably the greatest thing to happen to television in the last three decades. The show was filmed and set in Baltimore and traversed the drug trade, the law, the courts, the educational system and even the docks. It was created and producedRead More
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) – Shane Meadows
Country: UK. Running Length: 90 minutes
Released overseas (UK) in 2004 this dark journey of vengeance and spiritual ascension somehow slipped under my radar. That is until it showed up in my mail slot last week thanks to Zip.ca. After an especially late Saturday night, I sat down to watchRead More
Felon is well (enough) paced, well (enough) acted and well (enough) shot. It’s well…. pretty good, or perhaps just good enough. Stephen Dorff, who is aging well but not well enough to maintain his B movie attractiveness gives it his all beside a beefed up genuinely frightening Val Kilmer in this “….” directed crime thriller.Read More
Our “hero” Felix Soandso traverses a nightmarish acid-scape of Middle America in the town of Dreamfield, an otherwise laconic Hell-hole standing in for the worst qualities of conspicuous consumption and systemic ignorance in the good ole’ US of A. It’s difficult to call Felix a protagonist, more so just a character caught up in aRead More
by Violet Dear
When I woke up on November 27/2008 in the remote Himachal Pradesh town of Chamba, I was greeted by the news that every Indian dreads: late the previous night Pakistani terrorists had attacked Mumbai, entering 11 different locations around the city armed with AK47s and grenades, killing 200 people. Once I determined thatRead More
