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...Riding 1980” begins six years later with the appearance of the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who has been raping, mutilating and murdering prostitutes in Yorkshire for years. The Constabulary has been forced to call in a special team to hunt down this killer, led by Peter Hunter, (Paddy Cobsidine) a cop who has already made enemies in the tight-knit, corrupt West Yorkshire Police force. Digging deeper into the conspiracies discovered by Dunford in 1974, Hunter is met with the same resistance and violence in his attempt to catch the murderer...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Red Riding Trilogy | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...screen. When they were just 20, they made Menace II Society, a scalding view of gang-plagued Los Angeles. Their next film, Dead Presidents, depicted the scars of Vietnam on a returning vet. After the documentary American Pimp, they sent Johnny Depp in pursuit of Jack the Ripper in the 2001 From Hell, based on an Alan Moore graphic novel. Their films exude a tone of lawlessness and despair. The message: whether it's Victorian London or a saloon town 30 years hence, sooner or later every place is Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...genre hybrids, vehicles that provide his lyrics uncommon accessibility.At the heart of Cudi’s musical diversity is his hand-picked mix of guest artists, which include big-name rappers Kanye West and Common, dance-rock bands Ratatat and MGMT, and relative unknowns like rapper Chip Tha Ripper and singer Billy Cravens. The album’s collaborative highlight is “Alive,” featuring Ratatat. An exquisitely executed marriage of hip-hop and techno, it combines Ratatat’s effortlessly cool beats with eerie lyrics: “There’s something going...

Author: By Sarah E. Rich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kid Cudi | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Houston Chronicle, Kennedy was lured away by a love of sculpture that he had developed as an undergraduate at the University of Houston and was further drawn in by a local art-car parade in the early '90s. And though he was unable to get a prototype of Ripper into the procession, the encounter was the last bit of inspiration he needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Kennedy | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...earned a number of commissioned projects, creating everything from the "Topsy-Turvy" school bus for Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream (made to protest military spending) to a giant whale for Nevada's 2001 Burning Man festival. All the while, he continued to drive his trusty Ripper up and down the roads of Northern California with sharklike restlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Kennedy | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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