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Line of Duty, BBC TwoWednesday, 27 June 2012
Those quaint old TV shows in which we were invited to support and admire the police unreservedly have long been overtaken by real-life events. Now evolution has brought us to Line of Duty, a series that presents the police as a failing bureaucracy... Read more... |
iLL ManorsWednesday, 06 June 2012
There was a strange sense of ghosts, or rather absent presences, in the screening room where I saw Ben Drew’s iLL Manors (that orthography reflects the chosen spelling of the film’s title, and Drew is also as well known as Plan B, from his rapper... Read more... |
DVD: The Black PantherTuesday, 22 May 2012
The bad taste left by The Black Panther lingers like a mouthful of cinders long after it’s been expelled from the DVD player. This latest entry in the BFI's Flipside series of rescued British film obscurities is the shocking adaptation of the story... Read more... |
The Bridge: Series Finale, BBC FourSunday, 20 May 2012
It ended where it began, between Copenhagen and Malmö along the Öresund bridge. The journey back to square one took in issues of homelessness, mental health, immigration and child labour. Drug abuse, national identity, family break-up and the... Read more... |
Season Two of Braquo released on DVDSunday, 13 May 2012The second series of Braquo, France's hyper-real, dark and violent cops gone to hell drama is issued on DVD and Blu-ray 11 June as a two-disc box set. It’s currently still being aired on TV, but for anyone who has missed out so far this is... Read more... |
Original Wallander films released on DVDFriday, 04 May 2012The first six film adaptations of the Wallander books by Sweden’s’ Henning Manuel come to DVD on 11 June. Made before Britain embraced Scandinavian dramas The Killing, Borgen and, most recently, The Bridge they are essential parts of the Nordic Noir... Read more... |
Braquo, FXMonday, 30 April 2012
The first series of the French cops gone-to-pot drama ended with Lieutenant Eddy Caplan about to blow the head off his nemesis Serge Lemoine. Offing him was supposed to solve all Caplan and his team’s problems. Unfortunately, Lemoine was fitted with... Read more... |
Interview: Braquo and A Prophet screenwriter Abdel Raouf DafriFriday, 27 April 2012
Explaining the difference between the first series of the uncompromising French policier Braquo and the second, which he has come on board to write, Abdel Raouf Dafri says his take is “even more violent, even more sarcastic. The line between the... Read more... |
Vera, Series Two, ITV1Monday, 23 April 2012
It becomes increasingly difficult for a detective to create any sort of elbow room on the small flat screen in the corner. Up in Denmark they’ve been taking the extreme route, where the dour, bejumpered Sara Lund of The Killing looks like a Butlins... Read more... |
The Bridge, BBC FourSunday, 22 April 2012
"Does he know she's a bit odd?" asks one of Saga Noren's Swedish police colleagues, on hearing that Danish copper Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) is working with Noren on a new murder case. Well, he's begininning to get the idea. He's seen her forbid an... Read more... |
One Night, BBC OneTuesday, 27 March 2012
“Everything’s so bloody uphill, isn’t it?” whined kitchen salesman Ted (Douglas Hodge) upon realising that he’d left the charcoal for the evening's barbeque at the supermarket. But the charcoal wasn’t really the problem. There was the girl from the... Read more... |
DVD: SnowtownFriday, 23 March 2012
John Bunting is currently serving 11 life sentences. He was Australia’s serial killer. A murderous manipulator masquerading as a vigilante, he brought young people, their family members and a disenfranchised suburban community into his madness.... Read more... |
