Sentences with phrase «by the crime writers»

David Mathews («Narcos,» «Boardwalk Empire») writes from an original screenplay by crime writer James Ellroy («L.A. Confidential»).

It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the year by the Crime Writer's Association.

Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers» Association (2002), Gold Dagger Award for Blacklist by the Crime Writers» Association (2004), Anthony award Lifetime Achievement award (2011) and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America (2011).

Since the 1993 publication of the first Anna Pigeon novel, Track of the Cat, which was awarded both the Anthony Award for Best First Novel by The Crime Writers Association and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel by Malice Domestic, Barr has earned a reputation as a talented and much admired writer.

Arthur Ellis Awards The Arthur Ellis Awards are a group of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best Canadian crime and mystery writing published in the previous year.

CWA Dagger presented by The Crime Writers» Association, The Daggers have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over fifty years.

A wide programme of events will accompany the exhibition and a publication of the same name, by crime writer Val McDermid is available (see below).

Not exact matches

They don't need to obsessively target the throng assembling daily to gobble up crime procedurals and zombies, and it's no coincidence that the programs selected to please a small, educated audiences are celebrated by the small, educated TV writers who ignore what everybody else is watching.

God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.

In an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real world.

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Prolific writer / director Crane Wilbur (He Walked by Night, Crime Wave) helms this feature, with a cast that includes Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, and in her last film role, Darla Hood of the Our Gang comedies.

Two years after the highly esteemed drama «Clouds of Sils Maria», French writer / director Olivier Assayas tackles a psychological drama / thriller bolstered by crime and spiritualism.

Co-written by Moverman and acclaimed crime fiction writer James Ellroy, the film stars Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, and Ned Beatty.

Panel guests include Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex), co-creator and co-writer of Time Bomb; Rick Remender (Punisher), creator and writer for The Last Days of American Crime, soon to be a major motion picture produced by and starring Avatar's Sam Worthington; Peter Milligan (Hellblazer), writer for After Dark, co-created by director Antoine Fuqua and Wesley Snipes; Arvid Nelson (Rex Mundi), writer for the upcoming Oblivion from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski; Nick Percival (Judge Dredd), creator and artist for Legends, soon to be a major motion picture from Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment; David Hine (Spider - Man Noir), writer of Ryder on the Storm and FVZA; Matthew Cirulnick (True Crime: New York City), creator and co-writer for Earp: Saints for Sinners; and Keith Arem (Call of Duty series), one of the gaming industry's leading director / producers as well as co-creator for the upcoming Exile.

Stylish touches by first - time writer - director Duffy, and funny grandiose performances by the actors all work together to form an ambitious and mostly successful crime vehicle.

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The creative forces behind The Yards, Mark Wahlberg (Shooter, The Departed), Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line, Ladder 49) and writer - director James Gray reunite for another routine crime drama that benefits from star presence while losing momentum by being consummately routine.

This Wednesday we have a screening of the L.A. - set crime thriller «Gemini,» followed by a Q&A with writer - director Aaron Katz.

When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper — part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe.

WHY: Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, «The Drop» doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work, but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Polley is adapting Looking for Alaska, based on a book by The Fault in Our Stars writer John Green, and Margaret Atwood's crime novel Alias Grace for the small screen.

Based on a crime novel by James Sallis, a disciple of pulp writers like Jim Thompson and David Goodis, Drive squares nicely with Refn's previous work, particularly the Pusher trilogy, which is about tough, low - level hoods who scrap their way through a narrowing set of choices.

The movie is the latest exercise in comic noir by the writer / director Shane Black, and it shares a great many attributes with his terrific 2006 comeback film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the two mismatched detectives and their more practical female associate, the convoluted plot that features intersecting crime cases — even the hand maimed in an unfortunate encounter with a closed door.

Laura Linney plays the role of crime writer Patricia Highsmith in the new stage drama «Switzerland,» by Joanna Murray - Smith, at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.

It's adapted from the novel of the same name by James Sallis, a poetic, humane crime writer whose share in the film's success will be richly deserved.

An ultra low - key Brooklyn crime drama from the director of Bullhead and the writer of Mystic River, the film casts Tom Hardy as an almost comically gentle bartender who gets into some serious trouble when his place of employment — a neighborhood dive operated by his cousin (Gandolfini, in his final role), who got muscled into allowing Chechen mobsters to use it as a dirty - money bank — gets robbed.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and American TV writer Blake Masters demonstrate their admiration for Hollywood crime movies by bringing together versions of Murtaugh and Riggs, the cool, cautious black cop and the reckless, wisecracking white cop from the Lethal Weapon franchise, and the ingenious plot of Don Siegel's Charley Varrick.

Directed by Colin Trevorrow and written by the crime novelist and comic - book writer Gregg Hurwitz, the movie follows Susan Carpenter (Watts), a small - town waitress and single mother who endures a bizarre crucible of suffering set in motion by her elder son, an 11 - year - old prodigy named Henry (Jaeden Lieberher).

Inherent Vice — based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon — is the latest from American writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson, this time brining his masterful skills to a 1970s - based fictional crime story filled with twisty turns, oddball characters, and lots of drug use.

This crime story, adapted from a novella by Bored to Death writer Jonathan Ames, is about an ex-soldier named Joe (Phoenix) who finds himself tasked with recovering a kidnapped girl amidst a sinister political conspiracy involving human trafficking.

It is part of the «Time's Up» campaign, an initiative created by several hundred actresses and female agents, writers, directors and entertainment executives to fight sexual misconduct across the country since revelations about alleged crimes by producer Harvey Weinstein.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

Baby Driver Rated R for violence and language throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93 % On DVD and Blu - ray Writer / director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) gives us a Tarantino-esque thriller about a hot shot driver who is working off a debt with crime boss Kevin Spacey by serving as the best getaway driver in the world of bank robbing.

The writer and director of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3 has a new crime thriller coming this summer headlined by Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.

One False Move is an engrossing small budget crime noir picture with impressive debuts all around, specifically by writer - costar Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, The Gift).

«He seems to be working on becoming a better Batman than Batman even is — not by fighting crime, but by controlling it,» says writer Judd Winick, who adapted his 2005 - 06 comic storyline into the screenplay.

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And for any whose heads are not yet spinning, writer - director Johnson throws in another loop or two: In the future, Old Joe's wife was killed by a mysterious, Keyser - Soze - like crime lord called the Rainmaker; now that he's back in the past, Old Joe is determined to find this villain as a boy, and snuff him out before he can grow into deadly manhood.

The supernatural scare-fest about a true - crime writer and his family terrorized by a pagan deity named Bughuul made an even bigger splash in horror circles, and more importantly proved to Marvel that he and co-screenwriter C. Robert Cargill (with whom he would re-team on Strange) could create and maintain a mythology around the paranormal.

A couple of trailers today, starting with Alexandros Avranas» thriller «Dark Crimes» starring Jim Carrey as a cop who finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a book by famed writer Krystov Kozlow (Martin Csokas)...

The latest film by the writer - director of In Bruges may be the sharpest subversion of the crime genre since Pulp Fiction.

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, and directed by Michael R. Roskam, who first gained attention in 2011 with his Oscar - nominated film «Bullhead,» «The Drop» also boasts an excellent international cast led by Tom Hardy.

Undeterred by the recent BBFC ban of their planned first release, Nerdly.co.uk and TheHorrorShow.TV have put the Hate Crime affair behind them and are set to release another film by writer - director James Cullen Bressack: To Jennifer.

Based on a script by former Emmerdale writer Paul Roundell, Bait is a gripping, brutal British horror that could easily have been missold as one of those «gritty» crime films that Danny Dyer and / or Terry Stone, but both Roundell and Brunt have an instinctive understanding of the horror genre (in this respect, it recalls Ben Wheatley's debut, Down Terrace).

S.D Harvey Short Story Award is presented by the Australian Crime Writers Association and Melbourne - based literary journal Kill Your Darlings.

Founded by Robert Randisi and Ed Gorman in the late 1980s to bring together professional mystery authors in a private forum to exchange ideas, the American Crime Writers League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of mystery fWriters League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of mystery fwriters of mystery fiction.

Jan is the co-editor of Murder Past, Murder Present, a mystery anthology by award - winning, best - selling mystery author members of the American Crime Writers League.

Jaden Terrell is the author of Racing the Devil (Permanent Press), the first in a series featuring Nashville private detective Jared McKean, and is a contributor to Now Write Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher / Penguin for crime fiction writers.

The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.