Sentences with phrase «of police procedurals»

Many of the police procedurals on TV would collapse if they couldn't show the lead characters finding somebody by tracking his / her cellphone signal.

As the overabundance of police procedurals and supernatural - themed teen lit have demonstrated in the West, a single success can spur an upsurge of copycats.

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.

So, fans of police procedurals may be as excited as I was to read on Ed Goreman's blog that Hard Case Crime will be publishing two lost novels by Ed McBain, both of which have been unavailable for over 50 years.

Arnaldur Indridason has a superb series of police procedurals set mostly in Reykjavik.

As a writer of suspense / thrillers with quite a lot of police procedurals, I was bound to come across this kind of question within myself — should I, or should I not, include details of killings such as gory scenes, or torture?

For readers who enjoy Robin Burcell and fans of police procedurals.»

Ruth Rendell was a award winning British writer of police procedurals and psychological crime thrillers.

I'm a devoted reader of police procedurals (I tried to write one once, and they're difficult!)

For fans of police procedurals: Cop Town by Karin Slaughter Best - selling author Karin Slaughter once again grants women their rightful place at murder scenes and morgues, as two female cops smash major barriers inside Atlanta's police force in this new standalone.

For fans of police procedurals: Read Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson's latest mystery starring Chief Inspector Alan Banks.

For example, The Accusers is probably best described as a courtroom thriller but other books in the series have been written in the style of police procedurals, classic whodunnits and thriller - style adventures.

Think of a police procedural TV show where a translucent printout showing the DNA of a suspect is lined up against that of the DNA evidence.

Widely criticized for their depictions of police violence against residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazilian director Jose Padilha's wildly successful Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within represented a fascinating diptych, an attempt to tick the boxes of the police procedural while probing rampant corruption and abuse of power.

The plot has the obvious trappings of a police procedural but little of the conventional execution; the film is so character - driven that it's unlikely to appeal to thriller fans (evidently the reason Warner Bros. has marketed the film so minimally, a particular surprise given its talent pedigree).

It's a very strange film - a kind of police procedural anti-thriller - and it plays at a strange rhythm that takes some getting used to.

T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann film is more of a police procedural, than a noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary style.

Ratcheting up tension of police procedural and parental vigilantism, the phrase «Where's.

Monae gliding across a stage in saddle shoes and pompadour, singing of the apocalypse, reminds me of this police procedural's absurd elegance and bug - eyed fury.

Excluding Campion's involvement, the plot sounds incredibly dense (perhaps justifying its length), and according to various reviews, it's heavily atmospheric, channeling the strangeness of a police procedural along the lines of Twin Peaks.

From the melancholic romance of «Climates» to the elements of a police procedural in «Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,» Ceylan consistently manages to combine genre ingredients into a much subtler amalgam of imagery and subtext that transcends any semblance of formula.

The original film was a complex psychological drama with the trappings of a police procedural thriller; the update is a smart police procedural thriller with the trappings of a restricted psychological drama.

Lapidus joins the ranks of superb Scandinavian thrillers with «the antithesis of a police procedural.»

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

It appears that Rockstar are putting together a Game of the Year edition of police procedural, L.A. Noire.

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.

This is the bedrock principle behind the concepts of procedural justice and police legitimacy.

It follows two detectives investigating the murder of a young boy in a small town, but the police procedural takes a backseat to the absolutely searing exploration of just how murder and secrets can tear a community apart.

It is sobering to think that, if people of conscience had responded to Williams» call, then Corey Johnson might never have been dragged into the fine procedural net that the NYPD has cast in pursuit of «Broken Windows» policing.

A blast of fresh air blew into the local congressional race last week in the person of independent candidate Diane Neal of Hurley, a familiar face for constituents who watch primetime police procedurals.

In fact, Bratton recently ran into Tom Selleck at Elio's and pointed out to his friend, who plays a New York City police commissioner on CBS's «Blue Bloods,» that his character's wearing of a uniform is a procedural and sartorial faux pas.

Such use of computers to enhance the quality of low - resolution images is familiar to fans of CSI and other TV police procedurals, where law enforcement lab technicians often crack a case by magnifying some small detail of a digital image pulled from grainy surveillance footage.

Nerve - rattling in the best way, the sharp, visceral urban police procedural End of Watch is one of the best American cop movies I've seen in a long time.

The police - procedural aspect of the film is pretty stock stuff, with the cops circling Pascal, closing in on him.

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.

There are gritty police procedurals, and there are the «pretty» variety, for lack of a better word that doesn't conveniently rhyme.

Believe it or not, the show — if not quite there yet — is bursting with potential, a police procedural with Hannibal Lecter at its core and assurances from the creators that the grisly nature of the eminent psychologists true culinary proclivities won't be secret for too long (though they have said that the reveal will only arrive if the show gets renewed.)

Of the other top films in the Competition, two invoked driving as a primary motif: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Grand Jury Prize co-winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, an intoxicatingly strange, oblique police procedural in which a caravan of cops spend a very long night winding through the Turkish countryside in search of a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driveOf the other top films in the Competition, two invoked driving as a primary motif: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Grand Jury Prize co-winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, an intoxicatingly strange, oblique police procedural in which a caravan of cops spend a very long night winding through the Turkish countryside in search of a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driveof cops spend a very long night winding through the Turkish countryside in search of a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driveof a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driveof a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver.

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Tense and economical, without a wasted moment, Bethlehem is a police procedural and psychological study of the Palestinian upri... more

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.

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.

Tense and economical, without a wasted moment, Bethlehem is a police procedural and psychological study of the Palestinian upri...

Released just in time for Easter, Risen retells the resurrection as police procedural, with Roman army tribune Clavius (a miserable - looking Joseph Fiennes) having been tasked to track down the missing body of Christ.

As the lines between good and evil become blurred, the film pushes the concept of revenge to its most extreme limits, effectively transcending the police procedural and serial killer genres in surprising and thrilling new ways.

Filled with questions that can only be answered by the theory that he's in an alternate reality, Tyler becomes part of a procedural police drama whose distinguishing feature is its period setting.

A gripping police procedural and a disquieting immersion into a twisted psyche, «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the Academy Awards (best picture, best director, best screenplay, best actress, best actor) and remains a cultural touchstone.

«I'll never doubt you,» says Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) to his partner, Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), in Michael Mann's moody and mesmerizing police procedural, a true love letter to men of action.

Akira Kurosawa's police procedural is one of the earliest buddy cop movies.

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.