Sentences with phrase «police drama»

Not only does this look like a really good police drama, but it looks like it could become the new great heist film; keeping it's own with films like Heat.

This week's home video releases are anchored by one of the finest documentaries of 2012 and a terrific police drama.

Do you remember the great TV police drama of the 1980s, «Hill Street Blues»?

FDR — A One Man Show featured Elliott playing Chris Elliott, a pompous egomaniacal actor portraying FDR in a one - man show of tremendous historical inaccuracy, while Action Family economically combined satire of TV police dramas with a satire of a typical living room family sitcom.

This classic police drama stars Gene Hackman as New York City Detective Jimmy «Popeye» Doyle, who's working with his partner, Detective Buddy «Cloudy» Russo (Roy Scheider), to intercept a large heroin shipment from France.

After being delayed from October last year, and revised after the Aurora tragedy, the Los Angeles - set police drama Gangster Squad, directed by Ruben Fleischer, is now out in theaters.

Jason from MNPP here - Sidney Poitier is turning 91 years old tomorrow, and so let's devote this week's episode of «Beauty vs Beast» to Norman Jewison's 1967 classic police drama In the Heat of the Night, which won five Oscars including ones for Best Picture, for Rod Steiger as Best Actor, and for Hal Ashby for Editing.

Before that summer 2008 release, he'll be part of «Pride and Glory,» a New York police drama with Jon Voight and Colin Farrell.

RIP Steven Bochco, whose gritty police dramas such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, propelled him to 10 Emmys.

Critics Consensus: The ending may be less than satisfying, but Denzel Washington reminds us why he's such a great actor in this taut and brutal police drama.

The music fits the theme too, recalling sounds and tones from the old procedural police dramas of the sixties and seventies.

Stoll currently stars as LAPD Detective Tomas «TJ» Jaruszalski on the NBC police drama Law & Order: LA.

He is best known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz.

The newly 48 - year - old entertainer was joined on set by co-star Ray Liotta as they spent the afternoon filming an arrest scene for season 3 of their hit police drama.

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.

Fox and K - Ville creator Jonathan Lisco get credit for setting their new police drama in post-Katrina New Orleans — but future episodes will have to settle down and get serious if the show is to do justice to its setting and potential.

His latter - day police drama, To Live and Die in LA (1985) was no French Connection but featured two memorable chases — one involving a fleet of pursuers through an obstacle course of trucks and narrow lanes, the other an airport foot chase culminating in a memorable men's room arrest.

The TV police drama Flashpoint even wrote an episode around the Scout, an Aeryon drone.

But those raised on a diet of TV police dramas who expected crack law enforcement teams to simply plug the footage into a computer and then print out a list of suspects are going to be disappointed.

It sounds like the premise for a bad police drama, maybe NYPD Chimp.

Rescue Me is a daring, unflinching show — a worthy companion to FX's dark - hearted police drama «The Shield» — and it is unafraid to expose the not always pretty particulars of firehouse culture and the more fallible side of those we count on to save us.

And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently at the helm of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.

From 2010 to 2013, Wilson appeared in the UK psychological police drama LUTHER as recurring character Alice Morgan, a research scientist and highly intelligent sociopath.

With such an enticing premise I was hoping for a little more supernatural and less cliché police drama but beggars can't be choosers.

Canadian actress Mimi Kuzyk is best known for playing Detective Patsy Mayo on the acclaimed 1980s police drama Hill Street Blues.

A quiet powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama, both old - fashioned and modern, that underlines the reasons impeccably made crime stories do so well on - screen.

The Sony - backed European police drama «Crossing Lines» on NBC, starring Donald Sutherland and William Fichtner, has been sold by its German producer in more than 180 territories after its first 10 - episode season.

FX's acclaimed modern - day Western police drama was ignored by the Emmys last year, but with Season 2 it picks up four acting nominations, including nods for lead actor Olyphant and supporting player Walton Goggins.

Following the success of 1971's Dirty Harry (a role The Duke turned down), Wayne set out to make his own modern Police dramas as the Western genre's peak had come and gone.

The forensic police drama «Rosewood» will start its second season on Thursday at 8, followed by «Bones» at 9.

Idris Elba is the reason to watch the ridiculous but brilliant BBC police drama.

Corruption in the police force, long an undercurrent in classic noir, takes center stage in «L.A. Confidential,» a wry, stylish and devastating police drama directed by Curtis Hanson.

Call it the son of The Shield; when a writer - producer from that intense police drama crafted a show about outlaw bikers, he was smart enough to cast his wife, Katey Sagal, as the brittle matriarch.

But soon after the humiliation of being turned down for a job on long - running low - rent British police drama «The Bill,» Bobbitt got a call from Michael Winterbottom, who was looking for a documentary cameraman to shoot his ensemble relationship drama «Wonderland.»

After David Ayer brought the world End of Watch, a visceral, captivating and very violent police drama, I was rather excited to see what he brought us next.

Others have done it, from Eating Raoul to The Hangover, but Daley and Goldstein can't seem to generate enough momentum between the moments to keep this cart of couples - movie cliche, police drama tropes and shock value violence from getting stuck in its own muddy plot.

His latest effort reunites him with actors Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster for this gritty police drama co-written by popular crime novelist James Elroy.

When: January 11th Why: After getting bumped from its September release date to accommodate reshoots following the Aurora, Colorado tragedy (particularly a scene involving machine guns in a movie theater), it's a little sad to see Ruben Fleischer's police drama land in the dregs of January, because it deserves better than that.

But it's a passable police drama that puts complex, compromised characters ahead of procedure and never stops being interesting.

Aspects of the film will inevitably remind you of almost every hard - edged police drama you've seen, from Narc and Crash to The Departed and even The French Connection.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will team up with Paramount to produce the 1840s - Boston - set undercover police drama The Shadows.

A gritty David Ayer directed Los Angles police drama inundated with enough orcs, elves, and magic to make J.R....

Polisse Maiwenn Le Besco directs this fascinating police drama that explores the personal lives of officers who work in Paris» child protection unit and see the worst side of humanity imaginable.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you are expecting a tribute to the original TV series OR you are a fan of realistic police dramas

Director Dito Montiel is perhaps the worst offender, having cast him in all of three of his films, including this laughable police drama that also stars Al Pacino, Ray Liotta and Katie Holmes.

The best - selling police drama takes place post-9 / 11 in the Lower East Side.

NBC said today that its Jennifer Lopez - Ray Liotta police drama Shades of Blue will turn in its badge after the upcoming third season.