Here's the latest roundup of crime-themed dramas on the big screen and small screen:
MOVIES
Awards season continues with the 19th annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival naming The Imitation Game as Best Picture and the film's Morten Tyldum as Best Director.
The American Cinema Editors also announced nominations for their 65th annual ACE Eddie Awards, which recognize the year’s outstanding editing in 10 film, TV and documentary categories. American Sniper, Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Nightcrawler, and Inherent Vice were among the nominees.
Mark Wahlberg is hinting that HBO's recently-concluded Boardwalk Empire series might be heading to the big screen and would love to have Martin Scorsese on board as director. Scorsese actually directed Boardwalk Empire’s pilot episode back in 2010.
A series of posters for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's "twisty-turny detective adventure" highlight the variety of the story's "kooky characters."
TELEVISION
New guest stars for upcoming Hawaii 5-0 episodes include Michael Imperioli as an ex-con and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) an ex-Congo warlord who supposedly died several years ago.
Cinemabland wrote a behind-the-scenes piece on how FX’s espionage thriller The Americans, which was created by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg, keeps the CIA busy reading all of Weisberg’s scripts beforehand to make sure he’s not giving out secrets.
Cinemablend's Mark Rawden also chose his list of "The 10 Best Crime-Solving TV Shows Of 2014."
Entertainment Weekly has a look at the mid-season TV lineup in the U.S., with all the premiere dates, both new and returning shows.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
"Inside the World of Raymond Chandler" was the topic of a recent program on Southern California Public Radio, with author Denise Hamilton and Barry Day, who edited the new book, The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words.
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