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Film

Burning High-Action Brilliance: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

By Ay-Leen the Peacemaker

May 26, 2011

During the Tribeca Film Festival, I managed to catch a showing of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Watching the preview, this film promised big set pieces, lots of fiery explosions, and awesome martial arts action. A film that has Chinese alternate history and features a detective worthy of Sherlock, a black market…

Is That a TV Show You’re Reading?

By Laura K. Curtis

May 25, 2011

Once upon a time, in the long-distant past, movies were made from books.  You remember that, right?  Everyone would say, “Oh, sure, I saw the movie, but it was nowhere near as good as the book,” even if they didn’t necessarily believe it to be true, because that was conventional wisdom. (In fact, it still…

Vintage poster of Stranger on the Third Floor

Retro versus Neo-Noir

By Jake Hinkson

May 25, 2011

The classic period of film noir lasted from roughly 1940 to 1960. Roughly is the operative word here since the exact perimeters of the period have always been open for debate. I mark the beginning as Boris Ingster’s Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) and the end as the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy,…

Richard Widmark as Harry Fabian from Night and the City

Harry Fabian from Night and the City: Friend or Foe?

By Brady Richards

May 19, 2011

About my relationships with fake people: I have good friends and bad friends.  And worse friends.   They fill different needs in my life – people to encourage me, people I’m glad to know but even gladder not to be, and people I end up not liking whatsoever.   These are all people I have some connection…

Amy Adams and Emily Blunt in Sunshine Cleaning/ Lacey Terrell, Overture Films

Crime Scene Cleaners: Before and After

By Clare Toohey

May 18, 2011

If you're looking for an unsual and challenging career change, crime scene clean-up may be for you.  But don't be as pathetically unprepared as the cleaners in this Before picture from the charming family-business movie Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.  On their first housecall,  they look unsettled, and who knows what they're…

3 Days of the Condor directed by Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack: Thrilling Since 1975

By B. Kent Anderson

May 13, 2011

One Director, Two Thrillers, Three Decades. . .and One Line of Dialogue. Two of my favorite movie thrillers are by the same director, a pair of films made thirty years apart. As a director, the late Sydney Pollack was known for such works as Out of Africa, The Way We Were, and Jeremiah Johnson.  He…

Neal Adam’s Batman: Odyssey 6

Is Latest Batman On Crack?

By Crime HQ

May 13, 2011

Happy Friday the 13th! Ready for something weird?   Check in for a psychiatric evaluation and check out some spreads from the latest issue of Batman: Odyssey #6. With anticipation already building up over the Dark Knight Rises, scheduled for July 2012 release, I can’t help but wonder what a movie based off of this issue would be like.…

Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder in Justified

Justified’s Walton Goggins:Exploring Dark Facets

By Clare Toohey

May 9, 2011

While we've been discussing the Justified Season 2 finale, trying to stretch the juice of the season like the last drops in a canteen, via Deadline, we learn that while we await the return of everyone's favorite, complicated, preachy, white-supremacist Boyd Crowder, actor Walton Goggins will be crawling around inside another dark character. This time, he'll play a man suspected of sexual assault…

Real Numbers, Fictional Men

By Crime HQ

May 9, 2011

The muddied and unfinished manuscript of The First Man was found at the site of the car accident that killed Albert Camus. Perhaps this incomplete masterpiece left the world so existentially thirsty that it was woven into a trend in the world of crime fiction.  Let's look at some that came before and after. . .…

Two medical examiners looking down at operating table

Medical Bloopers: Don’t Try This At Home

By Dr. Lewis Preschel

April 25, 2011

When Mel Gibson slaps his dislocated shoulder back into place in any of the Lethal Weapon films ad nauseum, I always cringe. I don’t cringe because it’s painful, which I assure you it would be. But because, reducing a dislocation that way, a real person would inevitably fracture the humerus, the long bone of the…

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