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Q&A with D. Eric Maikranz, Author of The Reincarnationist Papers

By Crime HQ

May 3, 2021

What led you to self-publish your thriller in 2009 and include a “Reward” notice in the front of the book? Did you really think the reward tactic would help you get a traditional publishing/movie deal? D. Eric Maikranz: I didn’t know if it would work when I did it, but I did know that readers…

Three Clowns Talk About It

By Adam Wagner

September 18, 2017

Grab the closest rock. Leave the silver bullets. And cue the New Kids on the Block. It’s time to discuss It. Let’s start with some background info—how familiar were you with the story coming into the new film? Adam Wagner: I knew there was a clown. And some kids. And a newspaper boat for some…

A Closer Look at The Dark Tower Trailer (2017)

By Adam Wagner

May 3, 2017

“They were close to the end of the beginning…” After months of waiting, several premiere date pushbacks, and cries from fans for a trailer—it’s finally here! The film adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Dark Tower, has an official trailer: Check out our Dark Tower reread!

Trailer: The Girl with all the Gifts (2017)

By Crime HQ

January 9, 2017

The Girl with all the Gifts is set in a dystopian world where a fungal spore has infected most of the world’s population, causing the infected to lose their mental functions and feed on human flesh. Based on M.R. Carey’s 2014 novel of the same name, The Girl with all the Gifts follows a particular…

Another Kind of Christmas Movie: Lady in the Lake (1947)

By Brian Greene

December 15, 2016

It’s a long stretch to call Lady in the Lake—the dark suspense film from 1947 that Robert Montgomery directed and starred in—a Christmas movie. But, you know, I’m not much of a holiday films buff, and I wanted to write a seasonal post for this site, so a film noir title that happens to be…

Watch the Theatrical Trailer for Ben Affleck’s Live by Night

By Crime HQ

November 14, 2016

Batman takes a step back from fighting crime to participate in it, as Ben Affleck directs and stars in the dramatic crime thriller Live by Night. Adapted from the award-winning bestseller by Dennis Lehane, Live by Night is set in the Roaring ‘20s, around the Prohibition era. Affleck plays the ambitious Joe Coughlin, the son…

Voilà: Rowan Atkinson as Jules Maigret

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

September 10, 2015

To play a convincing Sherlock Holmes you need to be long and lean. To play a convincing Poirot you need to be… well… David Suchet. To play Georges Simenon’s great detective Jules Maigret, the requirements aren’t as specific. That’s one of the great things about Maigret. We know he’s a gent who enjoys a pipe…

From Page to Screen with Night and the City

By Brian Greene

August 26, 2015

In thinking about Jules Dassin’s 1950 work of film noir Night and the City in relation to the same-named 1938 novel by Gerald Kersh, one striking thing to consider is the fact that Dassin said he never read the book. He apparently fully relied on the screenplay of Jo Eisinger, and his own cinematic vision,…

“In Your Face, Neil Armstrong: New Trailer for The Martian

By Crime HQ

June 8, 2015

When a fierce storm all but dooms a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. But Watney isn't dead, and when he wakes up, not only does he have supplies only meant to last one month, he also has no way of contacting NASA back on Earth to let…

Orson Welles at 100: Falstaff, or Chimes At Midnight (1965)

By Jake Hinkson

June 5, 2015

Falstaff might just be Orson Welles’s greatest film. Welles himself thought so, and many among his legion of devoted fans think so. That the film remains largely unseen in America has little bearing on this opinion. In his home country, Welles is still most closely associated with Citizen Kane and The Third Man, but among…

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