We’re done! Getting through all five seasons of The Wire in one massive binge took weeks & weeks out of our usual movie-viewing schedule, but it couldn’t have been more worth it. Instead of yet another paean to “the best show on television” (which, in fact, isn’t praise enough), here’s a quote by David Simon [...]
Posts Tagged ‘police’
Breaking News
Cops, killers, bandits and the media clash in a Hong Kong apartment complex full of hostages, hand-grenades and Internet hookups. Johnny To’s (Triad Election, PTU) 2004 thriller begins as a straightforward police adventure but complicates our shifting sympathies between the hard-nosed inspector (Nick Cheung), the pretty commissioner (Kelly Chen), and the savvy gangster (Richie Ren) [...]
Top 10
Alan Moore is the only comic book writer dealing with superheroes I can still get interested in. Top Ten is his amusing and inventive “science-hero” police force, which keeps order in a city where everybody wears tights. It’s not Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or Promethea, but I admire the density of ideas. You’ll have [...]
