Beating Hearts sounds like the name of a self-important album from the 80’s and the vibrant but overlong and clichéd French romantic crime drama Beating Hearts (or L’amour Ouf) feels like the movie equivalent of such an album. The film traces the 12-year romance of delinquent thug Clothaire (played by François Civil as an adult and Malik Frikah as a
Read moreSleeping Dogs, which stars Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan and Martin Csokas, attempts to update the 1940’s film noir crime thriller to the present day. This is a tricky undertaking as that brooding style of film making was a very subtle art. While first-time director Adam Cooper manages – at least for a while – to build satisfying layers of mystery,
Read moreWith news of armed robberies on Bayside supermarkets at the weekend, Colin checked in with Brad Rowswell, the Member for Sandringham who says crime is one of the main worries for the people of Bayside and surrounding communities. Have a listen to the podcast here. As broadcast Monday 17 June 2024 on A Newsman and His Music (9 AM to
Read moreThe low-budget 80’s action-comedy TV series The Fall Guy, which starred former Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors as stuntman/ bounty hunter Colt Seavers, isn’t a show that seemed to be crying out for a cinema adaptation. It was amiable, undemanding TV, typical of mystery/crime/action shows of the late 70’s and early 80’s where everyone but the actual police solved
Read moreMissing is a follow-up but not a direct sequel to 2018’s Searching in which a father desperately trawled through social media and other online resources to find his daughter after her disappearance. Remarkably, that film was composed entirely of images from screens, particularly the internet and social media pages at which the father was looking. Missing takes that concept even
Read moreBased on Kate Kyriacou’s book, The Sting, which documented the events surrounding the elaborate police operation to capture the man who tragically abducted and murdered Queensland boy Daniel Morecambe, the gripping Australian crime drama The Stranger explores not only the depths of criminal behaviour but also the dark places it takes those who investigate these crimes. It’s important to note
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