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Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film "A Clockwork Orange" is set in the not-too-distant future when roving British teenage gangs have mutated into bizarre, ultra-violent, morals-free hedonists who commit crimes to their hearts' content. The protagonist is Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) a 15-year-old punk who drinks drug-laced milk before taking to the street with his gang of droogs to savagely and gleefully beat and assault anyone who passes into their field of vision. Alex is eventually arrested and put into prison where the government subjects him to bizarre new rehabilitation techniques in an attempt to turn his mind away from violence. 

Throughout, Alex is depicted as clearly beyond redemption. He has no compassion and will never have compassion. When he reads about Jesus Christ being crucified, he imagines himself to be the Roman soldier whipping him. The government's brainwashing techniques only instill in him a...

The Last Detective is a British Crime Drama series starring Peter Davison as the lead character, nicknamed Detective Constable ‘Dangerous Davies’. He is an old-fashioned, gentle and a decent detective. Davies had discovered a crime committed by a fellow officer earlier and after testifying against the corrupt police officer, Davies is treated as a pariah […]

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The Last Detective is a British Crime Drama series starring Peter Davison as the lead character, nicknamed Detective Constable ‘Dangerous Davies’. He is an old-fashioned, gentle and a decent detective. Davies had discovered a crime committed by a fellow officer earlier and after testifying against the corrupt police officer, Davies is treated as a pariah […]

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An unusual British Detective series The Last Detective, starring Peter Davison as the lead character, nicknamed Detective Constable ‘Dangerous Davies’. Davies is an unfashionable and mellow detective. Not the most popular one in the force, Davies had discovered a crime committed by a fellow officer earlier and after testifying against the corrupt police officer, he […]

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A decorated war hero Frank Moore is found shot in the head and his body dumped in garbage. Dangerous Davies is assigned the case and finds out Frank had left the army 5 years ago and was a highly decorated soldier. His daughter is now part of his old regiment. During his investigation he feels […]

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The Last Detective is a British Crime Drama series starring Peter Davison as the lead character, nicknamed Detective Constable ‘Dangerous Davies’. The show is set in North London suburbs. He is old-fashioned, gentle and a decent detective. Davies had discovered a crime committed by a fellow officer earlier and after testifying against the corrupt police […]

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David Harewood has joined the cast of ITV's upcoming epic drama Beowulf.

The Homeland star will play warrior Scorann in the channel's re-imagining of the classic tale.

He joins the previously announced Kieran Bew as Beowulf, William Hurt as Hrothgar and Joanne Whalley as Rheda.

Created by James Dormer, Tim Haines and Katie Newman, the 13-episode series is set in the mythical Shieldlands, a dangerous place populated by both humans and fantastical creatures.

Also starring in the project are Ed Speleers (Downton Abbey), David Ajala (Black Box), Ian Puleston-Davies (Coronation Street), Ellora Torchia (Indian Summers), Gisli Orn Gardarsson (Spooks), Susan Aderin (The Last Detective), Kirsty Oswald (Ripper Street), Laura Donnelly (Outlander), Edward Hogg (Indian Summers), Alex Price (Father Brown), Jack Rowan (Silent Witness) and Itoya Osagiede (Okora: The Prelude).

Filming on Beowulf began last month in North East England.

Harewood's casting arrives just a day after he signed up for...

Guest review by Darwyn Carson Right off, I admit there's a soft spot in my heart for British-produced mysteries and dramas. The Last Detective is right at the top of my fav's list. This lighthearted BBC TV-fare, based on the Dangerous Davies novels by Leslie Thomas, escaped my attention until last year after Acorn released season four on DVD. I watched it all one weekend and wanted more. Lucky me: Acorn is distributing the entire series in one package (17 episodes) and I get to see how Detective Constable Davies came to be nicknamed Dangerous—he is not—from the very beginning. Peter Davison stars as Davies, a forty-something man on the fast-track to nowhere in the township of...

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The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

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While the MST3K version is still near and dear to my heart, it is fun to see the restored original Gamera: The Giant Monster (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$19.93 Srp) in its DVD debut, sporting an audio commentary and a retrospective featurette. It’s a giant turtle, for criminy’s sake!

Matt Smith’s tenure as the new Doctor on Doctor Who isn’t...

obsession: the plays of William Shakespeare (cuz he never goes out of style) boyfriend: Peter Davison in The Last Detective at the moment (but pretty much forever in anything) psyched: absolutely nothing (the next month or so is a movie wasteland) dreading: Knowing (see above about cinematic wastelands) enemy: everyone responsible for Fired Up! (for trying to pass off such disgusting oafs as heroes) I consider my current obsession with Shakespeare movie-related, not only because so many of his plays have ended up on the big screen. He was the consummate teller of stories in motion, full of action and intrigue and murder and romance. He’d have loved movies, and he probably would have written some great ones. Very soon -- I promise -- I’ll share my reactions to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew that...

Speaking of gorgeous guys and The Last Detective... Included in the Complete Collection DVD set of The Last Detective is an interview with Peter Davison. And he’s very charming as he talks about the show (I met him twice years ago in Doctor Who fandom settings, and he was charming then, too). But he also has an adorable growth of facial hair, which I have never seen him sport before: Why the beard? He was playing King Arthur in Spamalot! in the West End. I would have loved to see that.

All through my viewing of The Last Detective, familiar faces kept popping up. One episode features, in a small role, Peter Davison’s own daughter, Georgia Moffat (not playing a relation to his character, though) -- she, of course, played the Doctor’s cloned offspring in “The Doctor’s Daughter.” That same episode of Last Detective also featured Camille Coduri, who has played Rose’s mum Jackie in numerous episodes of Doctor Who. That episode just about imploded from meta Doctor Who referencing. Battlestar Galactica’s Jamie Bamber appears in the fourth series episode “Dangerous’ Liaisons”:...

Oh my goodness, I’ve been in love with Peter Davison for 25 years -- through All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who and Albert Campion and A Very Peculiar Practice -- and oh dear, I’ve just fallen in love with him all over again in The Last Detective. This 2003-2007 ITV series never aired in the U.S., but now at least we can watch it on DVD. Which is a damn sight better than the Brits get, actually: a two-disc set is all that’s available in Region 2, which, I’m guessing, includes only the first of the four series in the Complete Collection, just out in Region 1. We get nine discs and seventeen episodes... although they’re more like mini movies: after the 90-minute pilot, each subsequent story is about 75 minutes long. (There’s also an entire bonus movie: a standalone adaptation from 1981 starring Bernard Cribbins...