The classic comedy, Ghostbusters seems to constantly have rumors of a reboot or sequel lurking. However, it seems like the rumors might be getting a little bit of fact behind them. Recently, Ghostbusters' star Bill Murray told the Toronto Star that he's not averse to a sequel—as long as he isn't in it. Who did…
In writing my historical novels, which are set in seventeenth-century England, I have had to spend a lot of time thinking about the crime-solving methods that would have been available to authorities of the time. In the era before modern forensics, when there was no DNA evidence, blood typing, fingerprinting, math modeling, computer simulating, chemical…
Who’s the star? The man or the car? This trailer doesn’t tell. Here’s the thing about Tom Cruise. He always, always looks like Tom Cruise. You may like or dislike his look, and it may fit some roles very well while others not so well, but it never changes. And he always sounds like Tom…
There’s been a bit of hubbub this week about Doctor Who. (When doesn’t the Doctor create hubbub?) CriminalElement.com has already revealed that the current (Eleventh) Doctor, Matt Smith, is filming new episodes in New York City. Now we can report that immediate past (Tenth) Doctor, David Tennant, just started—or is about to start—filming a new…
From our good friends over at Deadline, more news about the busiest man in show business: Jason Statham will star in Heat, a remake of the 1987 Burt Reynolds film that Brian De Palma will direct from a script by the great scribe William Goldman. Goldman [sic] who wrote the original script from his novel.…
It is apparently the era of true crime movies! Recently, we heard about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck making a movie about Whitey Bulger. And now, according to Deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio will play serial killer H.H. Holmes in the movie adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At…
One of our eagle-eyed tweeps alerted us to the news that in the upcoming film adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s Red Mist, Angelina Jolie will play Dr. Kay Scarpetta. We will leave it to you to debate whether this rises (sinks?) to the level of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, but it certainly had our eyebrows…
No way. NO WAY. Yesterday, word was leaked that Tom Cruise is in talks to play Lee Child’s iconic Jack Reacher in a film version of One Shot. To which we repeat: No way. Reacher, an ex-military man, is 6’ 5“ and weighs between 220 and 250 pounds. He has ice-blue eyes and dirty blond…
Chelsea Cain’s smash-hit series—which began with 2007’s Heartsick, and continued with Sweetheart (2008), Evil at Heart (2009), and this year’s The Night Season—is a bone-chillingly good read. The brutal, pulls-no-punches series focuses on a gorgeous and sadistic serial killer, Gretchen Lowell, and her pursuer/victim Detective Archie Sheridan. The two play out a sick cat-and-mouse chase,…
