Serpico

“Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive – an honest cop.”That was the tagline for the rabble-rousing cop docudrama Serpico when it premiered 50 years and it’s astonishing, in retrospect, that Paramount Pictures slapped it on top of the poster and advertising, and that audiences turned out in large numbers to see it. The tagline accurately reflects the film’s central thesis: that institutional corruption is so pervasive in the New York police department – and, by implication, city…

During his spotlight at New York Comic Con, Oscar Isaac brought on stage a couple of his creative collaborators: illustrator Christian Ward and writer Brian Buccellato. The three teamed up last year to help bring Head Wounds: Sparrow to life via Kickstarter, in collaboration with Legendary Comics.Head Wounds follows Leo, a crooked ex-cop who has wounds that nobody else can see. He has to find the people who have the injury in the real world and help them get justice. As he does,so he gets caught up in a war between good…