Category: Crime

“No Country for Old Men” Gets the Cinephilia & Beyond Treatment!

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No Country for Old Men is a modern classic.  If you agree, then you’re going to want to check out No Country for Old Men: The Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s Ruthless Examination of Life.

Click on the link and you’ll find…

  • Joel Coen & Ethan Coen’s screenplay for No Country for Old Men
  • Lessons from the Screenplay: No Country for Old Men—Don’t Underestimate the Audience.
  • Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem discuss the making of No Country for Old Men.
  • “Just a cameraman”: an interview with Roger Deakins by Lynnea Chapman King
  • Storyboards
  • The making of No Country for Old Men
  • No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin’s Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
  • The Coen Brothers interview on No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Rare behind-the-scenes photos
  • and much more!

Eric Beetner Talks All the Way Down and More!

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Eric Beetner’s new novel, All the Way Down, comes out tomorrow.  I pre-ordered it and can’t wait.  Beetner has never disappointed me and All the Way Down sounds like a cross between Game of Death, Die Hard and The Raid: Redemption.  Here’s the Amazon description:

Dale is a crooked cop. It started slow, but grew like a cancer and now he can’t get out from under the thumb of Tat, a would-be kingpin in every vice he can turn a profit with.

And now Dale’s number is up – the top brass knows. But instead of getting busted, Dale gets an offer. The mayor’s daughter is being held by Tat in his fortress built from an abandoned office tower. They want her back but if they storm the gates, Lauren is as good as dead. So they’re sending Dale on what could very likely be a suicide mission: infiltrate Tat’s fortress and bring her out alive.

If the Mayor even really wants her alive…

Floor by floor Dale and Lauren have to fight off an increasingly difficult and dangerous set of obstacles.

Meanwhile, Dale’s wife has her own troubles and some of the drug kingpin’s goons are only adding to an already rough day.

The clock is ticking down along with the floors of the building and escape is looking less and less likely. But to save her, and to save himself, he must make it all the way down.

Beetner recently was interviewed by P. J. Bodnar at the Big Thrill.  Beetner spoke about All the Way Down, writing advice, his next novel and more.

Oh, and if All the Way Down sounds like something you’d like then you can be dealt in by clicking on this link and ordering from Amazon.

John Wick & Jack Carter Get a Tune (Tone) Up by John Beatty

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Regular readers probably remember seeing the John Wick & Jack Carter piece that John Beatty created and gifted to me back in November.   After he was finished John decided it would look better with a gray wash and created / added to the piece as you can see above.  You can see it even better and bigger if you click on the image.

I’ve attached the U-Stream of John adding the tones below.  You can check out all of John’s live drawing recordings here.

Our Top 2018 Posts and All-Time Favorites!

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As we head into 2019, I thought it would be interesting to see our top 2018 posts and our all-time favorites.  So, without further adieu, here are the 2018 most viewed posts…

  1.  Schwarzenegger in “King Lear” & Robin Williams in “Jack and the Beanstalk”
  2.  Louis Meyers: Evidence He Was the Zodiac Killer
  3.  “Dancing in the Sky” by Dani and Lizzi
  4.  11 Nightmarish Facts About “Nosferatu”
  5.  The Final “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” Trailer is Here!
  6.  The TOP 10 MOST ICONIC HORROR MOVIE VILLAINS!
  7.  Steve Reeves as Superman
  8.  New Billy the Kid Photo Discovered
  9.  Bruce Lee in The Matrix and More
  10.  “Creed 2” Poster by Gerardo Moreno!

And our all-time favs…

  1.  Schwarzenegger in “King Lear” & Robin Williams in “Jack and the Beanstalk”
  2.  Zodiac Killer Code Cracked?
  3.  Louis Meyers: Evidence He Was the Zodiac Killer
  4. New Billy the Kid Photo Discovered
  5.  Real Clown Or Horror-Movie Clown?
  6.   Joel Osteen in Jacksonville
  7.  Steve Reeves as Superman
  8.  “Fast 7” Teaser: This is Where Roads Part
  9.  The Life and Times of Deputy U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves
  10.  “Dancing in the Sky” by Dani and Lizzi

Thanks to everyone who checks in here.  I hope your 2018 was a good one and your 2019 will be even better!

10+ Page Preview for Criminal by Brubaker and Phillips

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The art above is just one of a ten page preview for the new Criminal comic series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.  The series will be on-going and feature new and returning characters from previous Criminal stories.  The first issue is self-contained and the second and third issues will start and wrap-up a two-part story.  I cannot recommend Brubaker and Phillips’ Criminal stories highly enough.

If you click over you can see the other nine pages of the first issue preview as well as the Criminal covers for issues one, two and three.

Source: Comics Beat.

Ed Brubaker Interview!

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Alex Segura has an informative interview with crime fiction author Ed Brubaker where he talks about his work for Marvel and DC, his collaborations with Sean Phillips, working in television and his new Criminal series!  Check out TALES OF JUNKIES, FADE-OUTS, SUPER-HEROES AND CRIMINALS: Talking with Ed Brubaker, Acclaimed Comic Book, Graphic Novel and Television Writer.