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John Webster

Gangster Cinema, British Style: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)

By Scott Adlerberg

June 27, 2014

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is not the first film you're likely to come up with when thinking about British gangster movies. Filmmaker Peter Greenaway, who began his artistic endeavors as a painter, has made a name for himself as a creator of provocative and sometimes experimental works of greater or…

Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway

Inspector Lewis: Wild Justice

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

September 21, 2011

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out,” wrote the philosopher and essayist Francis Bacon in 1625. How generous of him to provide the basis, the title, and the hidden message for this week’s installment of Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece Mystery.…

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