Sentences with phrase «like police procedural»

If that sounds like a police procedural / thriller that delivers a lot, you betcha it does.

Strongly recommended to all who like their police procedurals on the cerebral side.

«If you like your police procedurals intriguing, solid and well - written, Lovesey's your man — just as he's been for dad and grandad.»

Not exact matches

It's clear that today even the best language - parsing engines and related algorithms are no match for the old family connectivity trees built out of bright - colored Post-its tacked to the wall, or the white boards that we see every night on the tube in the police procedural shows like Law and Order.

At times, Blood, feels like a slightly - filled - out television police procedural with better cinematography, but the performances have an almost Shakespearean grandeur.

I'm just so annoyed with both Scott and Crowe for talking shit about the original script's premise for a film told from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective, and how this wouldn't work because it played like a medieval police procedural.

The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

While the premise of the film sounds like something you might see on any one of the many police procedural shows on television, it has a decidedly different feel than prime time.

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.

The film plays like a Michael Mann police procedural action version of Ridley Scott's The Counselor, and you have no idea how hard that hits my sweet spot.

There's a potentially engaging jurisdictional triangle at the heart of his story, but it's largely obscured by what amounts to mediocre amalgam of a basic, post-CSI procedural and a serial killer B movie, in which a devilish antagonist does things like phone the police to taunt them as he's snuffing his latest victim.

Girl By the Lake (IFC) is an Italian mystery that plays a lot like a big screen version of a British TV mystery police procedural with amazing location photography.

The difficulties with the film spring from the misunderstanding that it somehow adheres to the conventions of a thriller or a police procedural when, in fact, The Caveman's Valentine is a superhero fable that takes on the cause of the homeless (again like McFarlane's Spawn) while attacking the entrenched ruling classes in government and the arts.

Men with names like Tom Builder (from HBO's The Pillars of the Earth) and Dr Jacob Hood (police procedural Eleventh Hour), and Zen, the cool Italian detective from the Michael Dibdin books adapted for the BBC.

Lush Life reads like a giant, sprawling episode of your favorite fast - talking police procedural, with type breaks and metaphors standing in for jump cuts and sweeping crane - mounted pans across the city skyline.

I felt like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural.

I felt a bit like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural (by which I mean that there are no great leaps of coincidence that lead to the solving of the crime, just sound, time - consuming police - work, following leads up blind allies, and back down again until the right path is explored).

I'm asking because the «before» versions are actually common in certain genres, like adventure or police procedural or some types of sci - fi and fantasy.

It seemed like I might have found a niche market, assuming there were science fiction fans hungry for police procedurals.

This also means deciding whether your book falls under any of the sub-genre categories, which include: general mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals, and the like.

I liked the mystery list, because it's really broad: children's, YA, cozy, classic Golden Age, British, American, noir, thrillers, spy novels, police procedurals, psychological mysteries...

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.

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.»

Considering the enduring popularity of police procedurals and legal dramas in popular culture, the formula behind Capcom's Ace Attorney might read like a sure - fire money - maker — a game where you play as a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright who shields his obviously innocent clients from the wrath of increasingly aggressive prosecutors by pointing out the holes in the state's case, inevitably producing the real culprit just in the nick of time.

The police procedural is a wildly well - liked literary, tv, and movie style, however comparatively few sport builders have efficiently captured the fun of cracking a case.