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Muddy, stinking Five Points is a suitably gritty backdrop in this unique police procedural from a time when procedure meant shoot first and shout «Police!»

The interactive police procedural from Silent Hill veteran Sam Barlow caused quite a splash after its launch last June, later earning several accolades including awards from GDC and BAFTA.

This police procedural from director Xavier Beauvois (Ponette, Ars ne Lupin) has a clipped, Bressonian quality that makes it frustrating but also increasingly fascinating.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.)

The eight - episode British police procedural series is filmed from eyewitness perspectives and uses improvised dialogue, which offers a more authentic look at how police investigate cases.

Is it the mid-film move from spectral thriller to police procedural and back?

«The Third Murder,» a rare foray into police - procedural territory from the great Japanese director Hirokazu Kore - eda, struck me as an equally rare disappointment, measured and meditative to a fault.

Those who haven't read the source material or watched the trailer might expect something dreary from a show titled Patrick Melrose, possibly a police procedural or a light - hearted rural town drama.

Well, you can't tell from «Alex Cross,» a shockingly incompetent major studio release that strands Perry in a poorly written and poorly executed police procedural.

This fresh spin on the police procedural takes inspiration from Michael Connelly's novels and plays it pretty safe, smartly integrating genre conventions with its own voice.

Super-producer Dick Wolf brings his police - procedural pedigree and penchant for ripped - from - the - headlines drama to a scripted adaptation of the true crime story of the Menendez brothers and the murder of their parents in 1989.

Tonight's sixth season premiere was no different from the workhorse hour - long comedic police procedural standard.

The low - budget, high - energy horror show goes from suspense to shocks and from police procedural to outright gory mayhem without skipping a beat.

Though this isn't the first time that Derrickson has directed a movie about demonic possessions («The Exorcism of Emily Rose»), he doesn't really bring anything new to the table apart from the decision to blend supernatural horror with a police procedural.

An opening scene in which Cross literally dodges a bullet a second or more after it's fired kind of sums up the action trajectory, which eventually devolves from bad police procedural into a bad «Dirty Harry» copycat.

Another of Sidney Lumet's dark police procedurals is given light in this stunning, but nearly extra-free BD from Kino Lorber.

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.

The film's only decent male figure is Harvey Keitel's Hal Slocumb, the compassionate Arkansas cop who's hot on the duo's trail, but — as befitting a story that presents testosterone as a dangerous enemy of female independence — he's barely heard from except during police procedural sequences in which he interviews suspects, taps phone lines, and argues with superiors in an unconvincing Southern accent.

Writer / director Hong - jin Na's The Wailing is a strange film that shifts from a police procedural to a complicated supernatural mystery that involves ghosts, demonic possessions, blood rituals, and zombies, before the whole bonkers affair ends on a note of metaphysical tragedy.

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.

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 new version follows neither the original (which played each sequence to it's conclusion then moved to the next) nor the rhythms of standard police procedural intercutting, but instead leave everything slightly off - balance, all of which occurs after the famous opening shot, a long track from one border town to another.

One example I've discovered comes from Connecticut teacher John Fallon, who has used the digital police procedural Her Story in his high school English class.

Have students identify horror movie or police procedural tropes, then reveal the answers from TVTropes to see how many they selected.

Edited by the legendary Gary Fisketjon (who has worked with Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt and many others), Mr. Peanut is part marital drama and part police procedural, and as the opening paragraph demonstrates, it will hook you from page one.

From the acclaimed author of the Scott Cullen series, Snared is an unyielding police procedural that fearlessly examines the uncomfortable grey areas between right and wrong, and between «us» and «them.»

Blending police procedural with psychological thriller, From the Cradle will have every parent checking that their children are safe in their beds... then checking again.

After a 25 - year writing career, during which she has published 29 novels ranging from contemporary romance to police procedurals, the first instalment of her Josie Bates series, Hostile Witness, has found a new reader: Google's artificial intelligence.

The police procedural ranges from Evan Hunter / Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series to Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's ten - book Martin Beck series to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series.

From historical epics, social satire, police procedurals, and stories of the future Middle East: we will publish the exciting and the unexpected.

There have been any number of exceptional mysteries set in southern Africa over the years, from James McClure's cracking police procedurals featuring Inspector Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Mickey Zondi, to Alexander McCall Smith's whimsical Botswana novels.

Ian Rankin departs from his tartan - noir police procedurals to write about a brazen art heist in DOORS OPEN (Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown, $ 24.99), while in STILL MIDNIGHT (Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown, $ 24.99), Denise Mina begins a new series dealing with class and race hostilities in Glasgow.

So his police procedural came partly from his own memories of Houston...

Besides being a great thriller, Hunter brings together aspects from romance, mystery, police procedurals and espionage.

In 2010, she moved to Thomas Dunne Books / Minotaur where she published a wide range of female - oriented crime fiction, from cozies and traditional mysteries to police procedurals to psychological suspense.

These mysteries range from hard - hitting psychological thrillers, through to police procedurals, or the lighter adventure of a cozy mystery.

Cozy mysteries need totally different covers from noir mysteries or police procedurals or whatever.

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

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 Bill represents a step backwards in Canadian justice reform, which threatens to erode individual rights and procedural safeguards, slow down the Court system, and shield police officers from cross-examination on their actions.

The present study utilizes survey data collected from a representative sample of 1,204 Australians to show that the effect of procedural justice on victims» willingness to report crime to police is context specific.