Tag Archives: James Ellroy

DVD review | Rampart – Woody Harrelson’s LAPD cop is mad, bad and dangerous to know

Posted on 9 July 2012 by Jason Best

Woody Harrelson is mesmerising as the anti-hero of gripping crime drama Rampart, set against a backdrop of police corruption in 1999 Los Angeles, but his pill-popping, booze-swigging, suspect-beating dirty cop, is so irredeemably unsympathetic that you almost wish he weren’t … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Black Dahlia – why are people so fascinated by this crime?

Posted on 2 July 2010 by Beth Williams

Why is it that some real life crimes have captured the imagination of the public more than others? Back in 1947, in California, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short (aka the Black Dahlia) was gruesomely butchered. Her murder has never been solved. There … Continue reading →

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Win a copy of L.A. Confidential on DVD

Posted on 2 March 2009 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed.  Curtis Hanson’s period crime thriller L.A. Confidential is over a decade old, but with its release on DVD and Blu-ray as a two-disc special edition the 1997 movie remains as gripping as ever. Based on … Continue reading →

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