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...double for serial killers. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) is a suave psychopath whose cop father taught him to channel his murderous impulses--by killing only other murderers. Hall, an undertaker on Six Feet Under, makes a seamless transition to the supply side of the death business, helping cops sleuth out killers to pay the bills while coolly meting out justice on the side. Or is it justice? The morals of this provocative show are as intriguing as its cases...
...Cool Operator Mickey Spillane, the tough-guy author who became an icon of American pulp fiction, died last month at age 88 [July 31]. Our Oct. 26, 1959, cover story addressed the spate of TV detective dramas whose heroes owed a lot to Spillane's sleuth, Mike Hammer...
Befriended by Morley and entrusted with his home archive, Annear began searching for a connecting thread. Having turned 20th century photography upside down in her 2000 show "World Without End," this assiduous sleuth found her subject. Whether photographing the then-unknown Twiggy on a London street, or a ghostly skeleton in a Tasmanian museum 30 years later, Morley's instinct has been the same. Now in its final weeks at the AGNSW, Annear's survey show turns a celebrity shooter into a more curious gatherer of found objects...
...blandness--the white bread of the English upper crust. Through a device too silly to be mentioned here, he comes to the attention of Sondra Pransky (Johansson), an American college student abroad. She believes Peter may be the infamous Tarot Card Killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Her co-sleuth is Sid Waterman (Allen), a not-so-hot magician who masquerades as her oil-rich father...
...movie is about Namsoon (Ha Ji-won), a woman detective on the tail of a preternatural rogue whom she falls in a kind of love with but is destined to battle at the end. This sweet-faced sleuth both uses her cuteness and fights against it. Facing down one tough guy, she poses the rhetorical question: "Want a taste of a bitch who?s really lost her mind?" Surrounded by a cast of overactors (who provide way too much burly comic relief for my taste), Namsoon anchors a movie that straddles genres. Think of a Raymond Chandler yarn reimagined...