Sentences with phrase «private eye»

When kids my age were playing as astronauts or whatever, I was playing private eye.

A big city never looks the same once you've walked its streets with a hard - boiled private eye.

As an artist, she engages in genre - bending performance, installation, writing creative non-fiction, and working as an amateur private eye.

What sets her apart from other private eyes is her mission.

Everyone's favorite hard - drinking private eye is back with new mysteries, new enemies, and new hang - ups.

In that, she is like many other private eyes.

Dashiell Hammett's supreme hard - boiled detective novel, with Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, and an unbeatable supporting cast that includes femme fatale Mary Astor, genial fat man Sydney Greenstreet, perfumed crook Peter Lorre, patsy Elisha Cook Jr., and tough cops Ward Bond and Barton MacLane — all turned by writer - director John Huston into «the stuff that dreams are made of.»

The adventures of hero Ace Hart, a canine private eye who battles the film noir villians of Dog City, and Eliot Shag, a dog, a muppet and an animator who creates and controls Ace Hart.

Bob is married to Delores (Stephanie Sigman), with whom he has two overweight sons; Terry is the loner alcoholic with the vibe of private eye in the 1940s from a parallel universe with a country twist, one that plays Glenn Campbell 24/7 on the jukebox.

Hawkes plays Mel Samson, a Los Angeles private eye with an unfortunate sense of timing and a case that turns out to be too personal as he negotiates the traditionally seamy underbelly of the City of Angels.

In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty's faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's employees.

A real - life investigator and award - winning author, Colleen Collins, shares the dirt with How Do Private Eyes Do That?

Following on from the character posters for Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon [see here] and Benicio Del Toro and Owen Wilson [see here], we've now got two more Inherent Vice one - sheets, this time focussing on Martin Short and Hong Chau... When private eye Doc Sportello's (Joaquin Phoenix) ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up -LSB-...]

This time the six parter will follow struggling jazz pianist Rock Banyon (played by Michael Kenneth Williams) who turns private eye when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation.

Like computer dating for college roommates, A Brooklyn woman turns to a New York private eye for help.

A stylish new «Ultimate»70s» trailer has arrived online for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film Inherent Vice, and we have it for you below... When private eye Doc Sportello's (Joaquin Phoenix) ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be -LSB-...]

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the film follows private eye Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), whose life is disrupted by the appearance of his ex-old lady from out of nowhere.

An ordinary private eye finds himself on a twisting, turning roller - coaster ride to hell when he enters the nightmarish world of a powerful, evil sorcerer masquerading as a sleight - of - hand magician and the murderous cultists that surround him.

So the next wave of women — those who began to write between the mid -»60s and the early»90s — turned out stories about private eyes (Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski and Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone) and medical examiners (Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta) and humane police inspectors (Ruth Rendell's Reg Wexford).

Not that Gosling's character, Holland March, a clumsy, drunken private eye living in 1977 Los Angeles, is exactly a cop, per se.

THE MUNCHKIN by Will Widger A little person private eye investigates the disappearance of a young actress in 1930s Hollywood, leading him to uncover conspiracies involving THE WIZARD OF OZ and Metro Goldwyn Mayer brass.

12:00 N — TCM — The Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart inhabits the role of Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade, creating one of the definitive on - screen hard - boiled detective (vying only with Bogart's Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, really).

Advance praise for Don't Talk to Strangers «An explosive read... Amanda Kyle Williams sets the classic private eye novel on fire.»

Synopsis: Down - on - his - luck private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) to investigate an adultery scand... [MORE]

Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice begins in classic private eye fashion.

Musical star Dick Powell took a gamble by playing private eye Philip Marlowe and the risk paid off.

As previously reported, Anderson has been working for a couple of years on his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's quirky, rambling detective story, which concerns a pot - smoking private eye at the tail - end of the psychedelic «60s who gets swept up in a kidnapping case involving his ex-lover and a shadowy organization that bears no resemblance to any modern churches, so Anderson's safe there.

«I have worked with Private Eyes Inc for almost 5 years.

«Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan — and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets.

You can name the Honolulu private eye series on one hand.

City of Tiny Lights Riz Ahmed follows up his hit turn in HBO's The Night Of with this modern private eye story set in London and directed by Dredd director Pete Travis.

Since then she has written six featuring private eye Kate Brannigan and seven featuring psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan.

A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio's leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.

But with private eye Bo Dietl throwing his hat in the ring for mayor, de Blasio may get a taste of Trumpism in his own backyard.

Starring Ralph Meeker as the cranky Los Angeles private eye Mike Hammer, the film begins with Hammer picking up a lone woman in a trench coat (played by Cloris Leachman), who is frantically hitchhiking down the highway one shadowy night.

Chins can not be ignored — they won't allow it, tailing owners like a canine private eye.

Synopsis: Down - on - his - luck private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner), the sultry wife of Maroon's biggest star, Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer).

According to an official description, Too Late «takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it.»

On first blush, Small Town Crime is a boilerplate private eye flick.

Every character in the film makes choices, and the film's commitment to its South Boston framework continually asks — as smalltime private eye Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) does in his opening voice - over — whether those choices are what define us or not, and whether they are «real» choices at all, or are already determined by the nature of the chooser, dictated by the choices he didn't make.

As pothead private eye Doc Sportello, Joaquin Phoenix is grubby, raunchy and amusing throughout.

Downey plays a crook masquerading as an actor and Val Kilmer is a gay private eye in Shane Black's witty, intricate riff on Los Angeles noir.

«Go back to the beach, you smell like a patchouli fart,» growls Josh Brolin's flat - topped L.A. detective, Bigfoot Bjornsen, to our dazed hero, Doc (Joaquin Phoenix), an unlikely private eye but one you can't help rooting for.

The Thin Man comedies, which follow the sleuthing, smart - talking private eye Nick and his heiress wife Nora, remain one of the enduring delights of vintage Hollywood, but the Academy saw fit to nominate only one half of the double - act (William Powell) that made the series great.

Near the end of Find a Victim, Ross Macdonald's 1954 novel of murder and hijacking in a small California town, private eye Lew Archer suggests to the district attorney that the local sheriff may be the culprit.

Former reality TV private eye Vincent Parco says the Brooklyn District Attorney's office smeared him to grab sexy headlines when locking him up in connection to a honeypot blackmail operation, allegedly set up to kill a sex crimes case.

Of all the mysteries of life and the universe, none resist the sleuthing of science's best private eyes more obstinately than the ultimate nature of space and time.