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Action-comedy-police film. Nicholas Angel is the finest policeman in the Met, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a...
Police detective-crime anthology series. Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang’s fence wears, and he is continually finding...
Feature film. Spoof horror picture in which a ham Shakespearean actor, Edward Lionheart, takes revenge on eight critics who have ridiculed his performances. He engineers a series of elaborate murders....
Low budget, independent film using the original text setting Macbeth in London ganglands. "In the violent underbelly of a powerful city, one man’s blows ring out from the street fights above everybody...
Feature film and one of the first to set Shakespeare in a Western setting. Larry Lang (Desmond) has carried the memory of his father’s killing by Claude Dutton (Peil) since his youth and is determined to...
Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like...
Feature film based on the play by Lepage and Brassard and described by the author as a ‘metaphysical detective story’. The story revolves around the unsolved murder of a woman several years previously. A...
Call For Papers: Science and Television Co-Editors: Steven Gil and Bill Lott Proposal Abstract due 30 November 2014 Full Articles due 31 March 2015 Publication 2016 Contributions are now invited for a...
The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol (Reaktion, 2013). 224 pages. ISBN: 978-1780231020 (paperback), £14.95 About the reviewer: Dr Catherine Haworth, Centre for the Study of Music, Gender...
Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema by James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull, (I.B. Tauris, 2013), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-1-78076-410-8 (paperback), £14.99 About the reviewer: Mark Bould...
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