Academy Award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine passed away yesterday at the age of 95. He appeared in over 200 films and TV shows over the course of his career. Borgnine was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors' Guild in 2011.
The Criminal Element has occasional "Crimes Against Film" reviews by its stable of writers. The latest is "Shoulda Been Called 'Cut My Throat Island'!" by Robert Lewis. Even bad films can have entertainment value.
Spinetingler posted an official trailer for Jack Reacher, the star-vehicle film is based on Lee Child's novels. Fans of the books continue to weigh in, not always in a positive vein.
The producers of Lawless posted an official trailer (actually two, an original and an amended version). The film is set in Franklin Country, Virginia during the Great Depression where a bootlegging gang runs into trouble with gangsters and the law. The all-star cast includes Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Jason Calrke, Gary Oldman, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska
Channing Tatum confirmed that a sequel to 21 Jump Street is in the works. The original movie was a comedy based on the '80s cop drama about two undercover narcs posing as high school students.
TV
TNT's new crime drama Perception debuts tonight at 10 p.m. ET. It revolves around Dr. Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack), a brilliaint college professor specializing in the brain who is also secretly schizophrenic. Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook) is an FBI agent and former student who brings him in to consult on special cases. The show is preceded at 9 p.m. by the first of the final six episodes of The Closer. (Hat tip to Ominmystery News.)
BBC America has posted an extended trailer for its new crime drama Copper, with some behind-the-scenes footage.
Netflix continues its development of original programming as it adds Wass Stevens to the its political thriller House Of Cards. Stevens joins Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in the cast. Netflix also added Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica, The Bridge) to the series Hemlock Grove, playing Sheriff Sworn, the local lawman investigating a young girl’s gruesome murder in a Pennsylvania steel town.
PODCASTS
Author Mark Billingham talked with NPR's Linda Wertheimer and shows off some of the places that inspired his dark, twisted thrillers set in London.
CBC Sunday Edition hosted authors Robin Spano, Hilary Davidson, Deryn Collier and Ian Hamilton, who have been participating in a book tour they dubbed, "The Crime Tour: Three Hip Chicks & One Old Fart."
THEATER
Writer-director Stuart Gordon is developing the play Taste for the theatre, based on the true (and gruesome) story of the Rotenburg Cannibal who became famous for killing and eating the willing victim he solicited on the internet. Gordon also has plans to shoot a feature film version after the play's first run.
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