Movie Review: "Street Kings": An absurd police thriller

“Hush-Hush"), or to blow a hole through the page. He's a demon dog, all right, with a bite as sharp as his bark. Other than Curtis Hanson's 1997 elegant page-to-screen translation of Ellroy's novel "L.A. Confidential”

Street Kings Directed by David Ayer James Ellroy, the self-described "demon dog" of American crime fiction, writes in a baroque, pulp prose style that hurtles along the page like a speed freak in a rocket, an ... via International Herald Tribune