Mangold Talks Cop Land
MTV Movies Blog has a nice little interview with director James Mangold about what it was like to direct Stallone, DeNiro, Keitel and Liotta in Copland.
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MTV Movies Blog has a nice little interview with director James Mangold about what it was like to direct Stallone, DeNiro, Keitel and Liotta in Copland.
I’m not much into fancy shoes, but these Chuck Taylors are sweet.
If you’re a fan of Richard Stark, cool crime stories, great comics or Darwyn Cooke then you ought to check out this informative interview at CBR.com.
The opening of this video says it all… “We all know that BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a flawless film… but did anyone ever let Kurt Russell read the script?
Ryan Cody is back with Sly from Lords of Flatbush.
Ryan is running an unbelievable sale where you get a free sketch with every purchase. That’s right. Buy Volume 1 of his sketchbook for five bucks and get a free sketch. Same if you buy Volume 2 or the Icarus Convention Issue.
I jumped on board for a sketchbook [accidentally ordered Volume 1 which I already had] and the Icarus convention issue [the sketch that came with it will be posted in the coming weeks]. Now I’m going back for Volume 2 and another Stallone sketch. Until then check out Ryan’s blog and his DA site.
Thanks to Ryan! – Craig
UFC 137 was last night and it turned out to be an interesting night of fights. Let’s go right to my picks…
Final thoughts:
After his win last night, Diaz took the mic and called out GSP, saying GSP faked the injury that prevented him from fighting on the same card against Carlos Condit. Diaz had been dogging GSP for some time now and apparently the strategy worked. GSP asked Dana White for the chance to fight Diaz. It looks like the fight will happen Super Bowl weekend.
Love him or hate him, everyone has an opinion of Nick Diaz. Perhaps Dana White said it best, “People love real fighters and this kid is a real fighter.”
UFC 137 is tonight. Let’s go right to my picks…
Remember how when you were a kid and you went trick-or-treating, that you’d always know which houses had the best candy? Well, don’t you imagine that this house has the best treats?
A little over a week ago I posted about Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip’s next comic series, Fatale. Today we have news that Coward, the first arc of their award-winning series, Criminal is being turned into a movie!
Congrats to Brubaker and Phillips and please keep the crime comics coming!
Deadline Hollywood announced today that FOX has a commitment for a tv series based on the popular Marvel comic book character The Punisher. According to the article…
Let me break it to you gently, that ain’t The Punisher. A “rising star detective” who moonlights as The Punisher? Sheesh. Why in the world are they calling the series The Punisher? Why take one of comics’ most “iconic characters” and change what made him iconic?
The [real] Punisher drawing by Mike Zeck.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a good mash-up. So without further delay, I give you, Walt Disney’s Sin City.
I’m a huge fan of Duane Swierczynski. His novels are fun, full of twists and never follow a familiar path. Fun & Games is the first in his Charlie Hardie trilogy and although I just finished it a few days ago, I’m already chompin’ at the bit to read Hell and Gone.
Hardie makes his living as a house sitter. There’s not a lot of dough in that line of work, but as an ex-cop with baggage, it’s been a good way to spend the last couple of years. All that changes when Hardie finds a semi-famous actress hiding in the house he’s supposed to be sitting. Is she crazy or could there really be a hit team coming to kill her and everyone in the house?
If my description makes Fun & Games sound like your typical ex-cop coming to the aid of a hot but endangered woman, let me assure you that it’s not. Give Fun & Games a read and if you don’t like it I’ll buy ya a Diet Coke or a Mocha Frappe. If you do like it, you owe me nothing. Deals don’t get much better than that, amigo.
So why do I have “A Texan’s Motto” post card along with my praise for Fun and Games? Read on, friend.
In the interest of full disclosure [and the fact that I’m always happy to hear from people whose work I admire], I want it to be known that received a post card from Duane Swierczynski this summer. He sent a personalized card to all of his fans who had pre-ordered Fun & Games.
How do I know it was personalized? Well, do you think he wrote every fan of his calling them a fellow Stallone fanatic? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
How do I know Duane Swierczynski is a Stallone fan? Well, Duane is from Philly and everybody there [or from there] loves Sly. Oh, and Mr. Swierczynski used a couple of quotes from Sly as chapter headers. Only a true fan would go THAT far.
I don’t know anything about Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip’s next comic series, Fatale other than it’s by one of my favorite teams working in comics today, that they’ve never let me down and I love the scary face in the gun smoke.