Sentences with phrase «police procedural into»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) today also announced it would also be holding its own investigation into the officers» behaviour after finding «procedural irregularities» in the way the initial inquiry was dealtpolice watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) today also announced it would also be holding its own investigation into the officers» behaviour after finding «procedural irregularities» in the way the initial inquiry was dealtPolice Complaints Commission (IPCC) today also announced it would also be holding its own investigation into the officers» behaviour after finding «procedural irregularities» in the way the initial inquiry was dealt with.

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 driver.

«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.

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.

It's a police procedural, murder mystery and a dark comedy all rolled into one.

FOX's new procedural series 9 -1-1 explores the high - pressure experiences of police, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart - stopping situations.

-- John Woo Being and nothingness In a taut and lean 100 minutes Jean - Pierre Melville somehow manages to condense and distill 30 plus years of gangster movies, police procedurals, and film noir into an astonishing existential tenor with Le Samouraï....

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.

Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.

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.

The story kicks off as a police procedural, tracking Nick and his partner as they try to bust a gang smuggling drugs, before heading into standard dirty cop territory.

Other shows at Invisible - Exports, including Stephen Irwin and Genesis Breyer P - orridge, have shocked me more, but only she drew herself and the visitor into a shared performance and police procedural.