Sentences with phrase «as a detective trying»

The Tulare County Sheriffs Office needs your help, as detectives try to solve a cold case murder investigation dating back to.

Tony Shaloub (Monk) makes for a great villain and Ed Harris (The Rock) is good as the detective trying to track down our three leads.

Not exact matches

Our job as parents is to be detectives and to try to understand the feeling and the source behind the behavior.

Details released Thursday in a detective's affidavit describe Brown as punching his girlfriend, biting her ear and trying to choke her until she nearly lost consciousness.

But former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Kirkham said there could be «old scores being settled» as politicians, police officers and journalists tried to deflect blame on to each other.

Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl is trying his luck as a libertarian candidate after he was rejected by local Republican Party leaders to run on their ticket.

As Police Commissioner James Gordon (Scott Patterson — Gilmore Girls) tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman (Bruce Greenwood — American Crime Story) indulges in his own detective work — with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle (Jennifer Carpenter — Dexter)-- to stop the Ripper's murderous spree.

Bogart is perfect as an arrogant detective who tries (along with us) to make heads and tails of an extremely intricate and dizzy affair, and the best thing is that it has an incredibly well - constructed plot in which all of the pieces fit in the end leaving no loose ends.

Susie then finds herself stuck in the «in - between» as she watches over her grieving family, the detective trying to solve her case and, of course, the killer himself.

Gemini A morally empty, downbeat Los Angeles noir about a personal assistant (Lola Kirke, «Mozart in the Jungle»), the No. 1 suspect in the murder of her bratty movie - star boss (Zoë Kravitz), trying to clear her name as a homicide detective (John Cho) closes in.

As Police Commissioner James Gordon (Scott Patterson — Gilmore Girls) tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman (Bruce Greenwood — American Crime Story) indulges in his own detective work — with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle (Jennifer Carpenter — Dexter)-- to stop the Ripper's murderous spree.

At its core, the film is a low - key thriller and detective story, stripped down and singularly unique, the film follows a brother and sister as they try to piece together the disappearance of the brother's ex-girlfriend.

John Hillerman has a recurring role as radio detective Simon Brimmer always attempting to match wits with Ellery (and always getting it wrong) and Ken Swofford is a hard - boiled reporter who also tries (and fails) to beat Ellery at his game in numerous episodes.

Noir City: Chicago opens with a 20th - anniversary screening of Curtis Hanson's «L.A. Confidential,» a chronicle of political and police corruption as four detectives try to solve «The Nite Owl Massacre.»

I still remember my astonishment, sustained throughout the film, at his feature debut The Element of Crime — this blasted black - and - white world served up in curry - sauce monochrome, with an obviously English detective making his way through an obviously not - English city trying to solve a series of crimes — a climate of crime, really — which as I recall never did reach any identifiable conclusion.

As he goes on the run, pursued by an LAPD detective called Dotzier (Forest Whitaker), Mills tries to find out why he's been targeted, and suspicions soon fall on that most clichéd of screen villains, the Russian mafia.

Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss proved to be perfectly cast as the brittle detective at the heart of the action, trying to solve a puzzle in a hometown full of traumatic memories.

Local police detective Loki (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) takes on the case and the plot suddenly shifts to his perspective, following him closely as he tries to put together what little clues there are, find the girls alive and safe, all without the parents» desperation getting out of control.

BACKSTROM STUDIO: 20th TV TEAM: Hart Hanson (w, ep), Leif G.W. Persson (ep), Niclas Salomonsson (ep) LOGLINE: Centers on Evert Backstrom, an overweight, offensive, irascible detective, as he tries and fails to change his self - destructive behavior.

John Cazale (who played Pacino's brother in the Godfather films) plays his accomplice here, Charles Durning is the police detective trying to keep the situation under control as crowds start cheering for the robbers, and Chris Sarandon earned an Academy Award nomination in a small but memorable role as Pacino's lover.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

This time the literary riffs are on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with Johnny Depp voicing the «greatest ornamental detective» as he tries to solve the kidnapping of Gnomeo and Juliet's various yard friends.

Senior detective Leckie (a moustached, understated Guy Pearce) would also like a word, as Josh tries to survive a fearful world with no exit.

That hunt is complicated by Hardy's cop being vilified for his wife's supposed activities as a spy, though trying to make heads or tails of the various plot strands running throughout Daniel Espinosa's film requires significant detective work, so muddied is this grim, grimy saga's storytelling.

Devil isn't quite the claustrophobic, one - set film you'd expect, as the inside - the - elevator action is broken up by side stories involving a police detective investigating the apparent suicide of a jumper in the building, as well as the building's security personnel who are actively trying to get the elevator moving again, while watching the horrific events take place through their security camera in one of the upper corners of the elevator's interior.

Best known for his acting credits, including In America and the cocky detective in Hot Fuzz, Paddy Considine elevates the British social drama into something more than your average miserable affair, tapping into the grandeur of Western archetypes as Joseph (I am sure there is a biblical parable in there somewhere as well) tries to do one right thing in a maddening world.

Before even having the chance to check in at the Baker Detective Agency where his dad had worked as a private investigator, Tim becomes distracted when he witnesses some mischievous Aipom stealing a young girl's necklace and tries to unsuccessfully intervene — a situation that results in Tim accidentally finding himself holding Pikachu by his ears.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

TRAINING DAY (Grade: C --RRB-: In this absurdly brutal and cynical buddy - cop drama, Denzel Washington gives a charismatic performance as a totally corrupt LAPD detective who tries to teach the ways of the street to naive, idealistic rookie Ethan Hawke.

Maybe the director's greatest trick is turning reporters and fans into Dark Knight Detectives as they try to figure out what's happening with the movie.

After a needlessly complicated setup that posits Skin Trade as the splashy global production that it transparently is not, the film focuses on New Jersey detective Nick Cassidy (Lundgren), who's trying to bring down a Serbian gangster named Viktor Dragovic (Ron Perlman).

And the joy of a who - done - it is trying to figure out the puzzle before (or at least at the same time as) the detective.

The plot kicks into autopilot almost immediately, as the goons, corrupt cops, chase them around the city, another on - the - straight - and - narrow detective (Taraji P. Henson) tries to find out the details of the misunderstanding to help the Fosters, and the hunt for the MacGuffin of a flash drive brings the Fosters to all kinds of semi-kooky characters.

Broward Sheriff's Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that teachers trying to lock down their students as the gunman began his attack couldn't lock classroom doors from the inside, but had to grab a key, open the door, and turn the lock from the outside.

At the same time, in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe tries to protect a small family from their threatening father, but is distracted by young Reggie Chase, who is convinced that the disappearance of her employer and son is not as innocent as it is claimed to be.

Author Louis Bayard puts real - life French police detective Vidocq (the inspiration for Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean) at the center of the action as a doctor's son tries to find out whether the young man his father treated is, in fact, the lost and presumed dead Louis - Charles.

Joey Darling, better known to the world as Raven Remington, detective extraordinaire, is trying to separate herself from her invincible alter ego.

Enlisting the help of friend and detective Sam Purdy, Alan finds himself pitted against new demons and unseen enemies as he tries to uncover the connection between the unexplained disappearance at the Grand Canyon and Merideth's missing surrogate.

If you're doing a game that is completely serious it's always struck me as odd that I'm combining a pencil with some bubblegum to get a coin out of a sewer, while trying to tell a serious hard - boiled detective story.

Players take control of Ronan O'Connor, a former delinquent who is trying to atone for his sins by working as a detective in Salem, Mass..

Murdered: Soul Suspect follows Detective Ronan O'Connor as he tries to solve his greatest case, his own death.

Soul Suspect puts players in control of detective Ronan O'Connor as he tries to solve the hardest detective case he has ever faced, his own death.

Soul Suspect was one of the most unique titles showcased at E3, as we play as Detective Ronan O'Connor as he tries to solve his own murder case.

But unlike a visual novel you'll control Detective Itō directly as you explore Tokyo, trying to balance your professional duty, personal life and sanity.

The story follows Petra, Emerald City's only detective, as she tries to solve the case of a missing person.

Taking place in a contemporary Japanese city known as 24 Districts, there's a string of murders happening, and you play as the detective assigned to the case trying to figure out exactly what is going on.

However, those looking for a challenging detective puzzle experience will be disappointed, as the game is very straightforward with its puzzles and contains no penalty if you fail to complete its puzzles in the suggested amount of tries.

The latest instalment in the Driver franchise once again puts the player behind the steering wheel as hardened detective John Tanner — joined by long - time partner Tobias Jones — as he tries to bring criminal mastermind Charles Jericho to justice.

Skilled at hand - to - hand combat, as well as wielding high - tech gadgets and even doing some detective work, the game sees you donning the Batcape and trying to regain control of the titular asylum, now overrun with various criminals, including of course, Batman's arch-enemy, The Joker.

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