Sentences with phrase «police procedurals make»

Police procedurals make policemen into heroes, (and I don't mean real policemen aren't heroic, I mean, heroes like in comic books) and that means the structure and the required beats are much like a super hero story, melded with a mystery.

Not exact matches

What follows is a police procedural in which a bright young detective (Topher Grace) makes a connection which leads the police to enlist the help of Father Price (Donald Sutherland), an expert in ancient Latin and all manner or arcane rituals, in order to stop the killings.

This police procedural from director Xavier Beauvois (Ponette, Ars ne Lupin) has a clipped, Bressonian quality that makes it frustrating but also increasingly fascinating.

Whether you make it to that pay - off punch will depend, to a large degree, on how much recycled police procedural you can stomach.

Argento did for the slasher genre with his «supernatural» pictures like Suspiria and Inferno what Sergio Leone did for the Western, making them dirtier, sexier, rhythmic, and more acceptable to the literati; and he does here for the police procedural / neo-noir a similar kind of post-modern hipster reinvention.

So when the sale ends, I'll have six $ 3.99 ebooks ranked high on the genre bestseller lists (horror, occult, police procedural) and I expect they'll stick there for long enough for me to make up the money I've lost (for the free days, sale days, and ad costs), plus a tidy profit.

But it's the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon's police procedurals so engaging... In his sensitive dealings with the victims of crime, Brunetti proves as much a psychologist and social worker as a cop... Tagging along after this sleuth is a wonderful way to see Venice like a native.»

Apparently, the patent office thought people might confuse a video game that few people remember with a police procedural that nobody remembers (though its description on Wikipedia makes it sound hilariously terrible).

Sam Barlow wanted to make a new kind of police procedural mystery.

One United States court observed that the Convention does not «permit reviewing courts to police every procedural ruling made by the arbitrator and to set aside the award if any violation of the -LSB-...] procedures is found.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

Some courts also refer to complainants having limited rights of procedural fairness, e.g., King v. Yukon Medical Council, 2003 YKSC 74 at 33 - 43 (fairness met where complainant met twice) and M.H. v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, 2006 ABQB 395 at 29 - 45 (fairness met by allowing complainant to make submissions); also see Berg v. British Columbia (Police Complaint Commissioner), 2006 BCCA 225 (concerning extent of complainant's right to participate at a hearing).

In recent years research has made significant strides in understanding the manner in which procedural fairness practices can enhance the work of police forces by raising compliance levels.