{"id":602,"date":"2013-12-09T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=602"},"modified":"2013-12-09T07:03:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:03:03","slug":"review-bad-lieutenant-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/09\/review-bad-lieutenant-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Bad Lieutenant (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen a recent film with Nicholas Cage called <em>Bad Lieutenan<\/em>t, well that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-lieutenant-1992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-603\" alt=\"bad-lieutenant-1992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bad-lieutenant-1992-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>actually meant to be the sequel to this Harvey Keitel masterpiece (the later film being a not-masterpiece!)<\/p>\n<p>Keitel plays a corrupt cop who spirals downwards into illegal gambling and lots and lots of drug taking. This guy is precisely the sort of guy you don&#8217;t want being in charge of public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The film remains very controversial with its explicit central case surrounding the rape of a young nun in a church. Whilst by today&#8217;s standards (after crime erotica like<em> CSI special Victims<\/em> et al) it is fairly tame, it still retains the bite that garnered it both the praise of critics and the swoons of wowsers when it was released in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen a recent film with Nicholas Cage called Bad Lieutenant, well that was actually meant to be the sequel to this Harvey Keitel masterpiece (the later film being a not-masterpiece!) Keitel plays a corrupt cop who spirals downwards into illegal gambling and lots and lots of drug taking. This guy is precisely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/09\/review-bad-lieutenant-1992\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Bad Lieutenant (1992)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}