Articles tagged "true crime"

Film DVD Review

Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut

by Jarrett Berman

[16.Nov.09] :. Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.

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Books Review

The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

by Mikita Brottman

[4.Sep.07] :. The "red parts" in question are those of Maggie Nelson's Aunt Jane.

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Capsule Reviews

Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case by Carol Pogash

by Bruce Gerstman [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[1.Aug.07] :. What makes Pogash's book so powerful is that it evokes the universal bafflement we feel over the tortured relationships some other people endure.

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Multimedia Review

True Crime: Streets of LA

by G. Christopher Williams

[11.Aug.04] :. Restraint in a lawless world is hard. Cops have to tangle with folks that have total freedom of action every day, and they need to do it the hard way, the frustrating way. They have to follow the rules even though they get to carry a gun.

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Multimedia Review

True Crime: Streets of LA

by Sean Trundle

[10.Dec.03] :. You can only listen to Kang shout 'It's Dim Sum time!' as he shoots up a Chinese gang so many times before you start to get uncomfortable.

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True Crime: New York City

by G. Christopher Williams

The game continues to remind you that being a good cop in such a rough and violent occupation is less than easy.

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True Crime (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Steve Everett is an old-school newspaper reporter, the kind who has improbable hunches that turn out to be right, who gives investigative reporters a good name, who's relegated to fiction these days. He's also more complicated than that, a self-styled macho boozer and womanizer, but recently slipped into another state, feeling confused and a little pathetic.