Holy shit I can’t wait until this hits the theaters in August. Here’s the latest trailer for The Expendables. You’ve no doubt heard about the Planet Hollywood reunion scene of Bruce Willis, Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in this flick. Have at it!
With the Horseman making it to DVD a few weeks ago and the impending North American releases of Nash Edgerton’s The Sqaure and David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom, Aussie crime drama is taking over. Having already seen the Square and the Horseman (reviews forthcoming) I can testify that they understand grim and gritty. Looks like theRead More
So Tim Bradstreet spoke with us over at Optimum Wound. A couple of years back I tried to nail down an interview with Tim Bradstreet for the site but he was swamped with work. I was doing the first set of a series of pieces on pen and ink masters. Tim was on the shortRead More
A trailer materialized for director Simon West’s remake of The Mechanic. Jason Statham stars in the main role with support from Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland. West hasn’t really handled a large theatrical release since Con-Air, The General’s Daughter and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He’s been doing a lot of television work in recent yearsRead More
Opening line: So I’m on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me! Josh Bazell’s debut novel Beat the Reaper packs a whole lot of blood, guts and humor into one helluva page-turner. I picked it up on theRead More
Writer Rick Remender Artist: Greg Tocchini Publisher: Radical Comics Price: 4.99 US Mature readers Originally when I first heard about the premise for this miniseries I was a bit sceptical thinking that Remender was trying to jump on the crime resurgence bandwagon and that it was going to be a huge flop. I’d seen GregRead More
Illustration by Matt Dorfman The good folk over at ChuckPalahniuk.net pointed us to a feature article on Men’s Health penned by writer Chuck Palahniuk. He lays out an interesting foundation on how to renew yourself by going through the steps that an individual might take before ending their life. Read Live Like You’re Dying here.Read More
Last week was a bonanza for crime film lovers. I’ve dug up six trailers for you from the UK, Argentina, Serbia and Columbia. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED Alice Creed is a thriller from England that has two ex-cons kidnapping their victim Alice in hopes of securing a huge ransom from her rich father. TwistsRead More
Sometimes you recall something from the days of television past that was so awesome that you think, “that couldn’t have really happened.” Back in the day Hunter S Thompson made a few appearances on the Conan O’brien show. During one of these episodes Conan met him at a shooting rage where they spent the dayRead More
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 many of the bigRead More
