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Finding Steve McQueen (trailer: crime movie).
In the caper movie Finding Steve McQueen it’s 1972, a bunch of oafish crooks from Ohio plan to steal $30 million in illegal…
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February 2019
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The Highwaymen (Netflix crime movie trailer with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson).
Director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is bringing a new original historic crime movie, The Highwaymen, to Netflix on March 29th 2019.…
NewsCri-Fi
Life on Mars gets Chinese adaption: how do you say “Take that seat belt off! You’re a police officer, not a bloody vicar” in Mandarin?
Life on Mars is getting an Chinese adaption. The BBC will be working with Phoenix Entertainment Group to create a local Mandarin adaptation. The deal…
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Shaft (2019) (Reboot with Samuel L. Jackson).
Here’s the trailer for the Shaft movie reboot with Samuel L. Jackson inhabiting the titular role he was surely born to play. This…
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Hobbs & Shaw (action movie trailer).
The Fast & Furious franchise gets its first spin-off as Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their F&F roles as Luke Hobbs and…
January 2019
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Widows (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (’12 Years a Slave’) commits a notable heist of his own that has nothing to do with his capable…
ReviewFantasy
Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts (Crimewave Short Story Collections) (e-book review).
Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts features fourteen stories from an assorted bunch of talented authors culled from the magazine ‘Crimewave’, which is put out by…
TrailerCri-Fi
John Wick 3 (trailer).
In John Wick 3 – the third instalment of the action franchise – assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag…
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Deadpool 2 (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Deadpool rules! Okay, admittedly this is an unconventional way to segue into a film review without sounding like a giddy fanboy. Nevertheless, the…
ReviewHorror
Occult Detective Quarterly Presents edited by John Linwood Grant & Dave Brzeski (book review).
Writing even a contemporary detective story at short length is difficult. It is not the setting of the scene that causes the problem…
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Polar (Netflix action movie: trailer).
In the Netflix original, Polar, the world’s best assassin, Duncan Vizla, aka The Black Kaiser (played by ever-reliable actor Mads Mikkelsen), is well…
ReviewBooks
Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash by Joe Street (book review).
For those who wonder what happens when I look through a catalogue, I do wonder when something unusual comes up is whether you…