Others know King for
her police procedurals starring Kate Martinelli (starting with A Grave Talent, 1993) set in modern - day San Francisco.
Not exact matches
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.
Starring Alan Cumming, the
police procedural will be the first major network crime drama to have a gay man as its leading character.
Meanwhile, the film is based on the first Mickey Haller novel by ace crime novelist Michael Connelly, who literally reinvented the L.A. noir novel with his realistic
procedural series
starring iconoclastic
police detective Harry Bosch and now his Lincoln Lawyer series featuring attorney - at - law Michael «Mick» Haller.
Directed by Jane Campion — known for powerful»90s film «The Piano» — this isn't your typical
police procedural; it's a seriously smart mystery, with top drawer acting (it also
stars Peter Mullan and Holly Hunter) and an unexpected feminist undercurrent.
«Kojak» Another
police procedural bound to be rebooted, Telly Savalas
starred as the chrome - domed detective in the 1970's series.
For fans of
police procedurals: Read Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson's latest mystery
starring Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
On just about every
police procedural, you can tell who the main guy is without watching the show, because the casting is a spoiler: just take a look at who is being featured as the «guest»
star for that episode.
Giving MacBride one
star for his work Dark Blood, he [Ellory] wrote last month: «Unfortunately this is another in the seemingly endless parade of same - old - same - old
Police procedurals that seem to abound in the UK.»