Category: Crime

Casting 100 Bullets

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IFanBoy recently posted their choices for the perfect cast of an adaption of the classic crime comic series 100 Bullets. I think that their choices are excellent…

  • Agent Philip Graves – Terence Stamp / I wouldn’t complain with Terence Stamp as Graves, but I was thinking along the lines of Jonathon Banks [Breaking Bad] or Lance Henrikson [AVP].
  • Isabelle “Dizzy” Cordova – Michelle Rodriguez / Perfect casting.
  • Mr. Shepherd – James Caan / Although James Caan may be getting a bit old to play Shepard, I like the idea of his son playing him as a younger man.  Another good choice might be Ed Harris [Appaloosa].
  • Augustus Medici – Stacy Keach / Maybe… I like Keach, but think I’d like to see what Armand Assante [NICS] could do with the role.  I think he’d kill.
  • Lono – Jason Momoa / Yeah, that would work.

Wrecked and Buried

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The last two movies I watched made for an interesting double feature. Both start out with the star waking up in a dangerous situation not fully aware of how things came to be. They then spend the remainder of the movies, on their own, trying to figure out how they can save themselves.

First up was Wrecked starring Adrian Brody. Brody wakes up in the passenger seat of a wrecked car precariously perched midway down a steep incline in rugged territory. There’s another passenger in the back seat who is dead. The driver, who was thrown from the car, is also dead. Although Brody is badly injured, he’s still alive. Whether he’ll remain that way will depend on his ability to free himself from the wreckage and then make his way up or down the ravine. Neither looks like a good choice. Brody will also have to deal with the weather, wild animals, and a wilderness man who wants the bags of money in the wrecked car’s trunk.

Buried begins when Ryan Reynolds wakes up to find himself buried in a wooden coffin. He slowly pieces together that he’s been placed there because he’s an American trucker in Iran, and his kidnappers hope to get 5 million dollars ransom for his safe return. The entire movie stays with Reynolds as he attempts to figure a way out with just a lighter, a flashlight, a pencil and a cell phone. But don’t think that this is going to be an uplifting movie about a rugged individual who finds a way to overcome with the simple things around him. Far from it. The movie is claustrophobic and relentlessly tense.

Wrecked rates a C
Buried rates a B

Breaking Bad Paper Dolls

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Two of my favorite things are 1] the tv series Breaking Bad and 2] art.  Combine the two and you could come up with Breaking Bad art for paper dolls.  Illustrator, Kyle Hilton created.  They’re pretty cool.  And this is coming from a guy who normally would not say that about paper dolls.

Zodiac Killer Code Cracked?

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That’s Corey Starliper.  Have you ever heard of him?  I hadn’t either until recently.  Corey claims to have broken a code that has stumped experts for over forty years.  Not only that, in breaking the code, Correy believes he has solved the mystery behind the identity of the Zodiac Killer.

If true, this is a major, major breakthrough.  Of course, if it was true, don’t you think you’d have heard of Corey Starliper somewhere other than here?

Drive: Crime Classic in the Making

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Have you seen the trailer for “Drive”?  It is the best looking trailer I’ve seen in a long time and if the movie turns out to be as good as the teaser indicates, then we are in for a crime classic.  The source material is more than solid since it’s based on the crime novel Drive by James Sallis [that I reviewed here].

Ok.  Enough of my praise.  Check out the redband trailer and see for yourself.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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At ComicCon this past weekend, Robert Rodriguez announced that “Frank [Miller] has written a script for Sin City 2…It could shoot as early as later this year.“

The Sin City sequel will follow the same format as the original movie with three interconnected tales. “A Dame to Kill For” will be the main title and is based on the Frank Miller story of the same name. The Long Bad Night is the second yarn with no mention of the third’s title at this point.

The Package: I’m In

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I learned about The Package by Elliot Blake and Alexis Ziritt, through Kickstarter.  I liked what I read and decided to become a backer.  Here’s what got me on board:

  • THE PACKAGE, an original 56-page crime graphic novel written by Elliot Blake and illustrated by Alexis Ziritt, is the story of Fred Cutler, a shallow mob gunman who survives an attempt on his life only to wake up and find there’s a small bomb in his chest. It was planted there by Paz Huerta, the beautiful young woman who saved his life, because she sees in him her one best chance to get something she’s wanted more than anything: revenge for the death of her father at the hands of Fred’s boss, Los Angeles gangster Rafi Vega. Like it or not, Fred’s going to have to help Paz, because she’s not taking no for an answer – and she’s the one with her finger on the detonator.