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Our movies on TV pick for tonight (Thursday, 22 February) is the 2020 mystery comedy noir The Kid Detective starring Adam Brody.

"Someone's following us." "This isn't safe." Sony Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie dark comedy titled The Kid Detective, marking the feature debut of Canadian filmmaker Evan Morgan. A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bout of self-pity. Until a naïve client brings

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A still from ‘The Kid Detective’   Director Evan Morgan, who makes his feature debut with this film, manages to bring disparate elements together and present an engaging watch Have you ever wondered what kind of adults would the young sleuths we read in our childhood about grow up into? Would Fatty from Enid Blyton’s Five Find Outers zoom up the ranks in Scotland Yard? Would Frank and Joe Hardy take over their father’s detective agency or join the police? Would the Three Investigator...

If you held a gun to my head and made me pick a favorite genre of movie, Id say horror, but if I got to pick another one, Id say the genre of Lowered Expectations. The best example I can give is "The Royal Tenenbaums," where everyone is talented and brilliant in their own ways but is too sad or broken to be anything other than a big batch of wasted potential. Getting to watch characters rediscover their worth is a beautiful thing to me. Ive been hearing about this new movie called "The Kid ...

3 h Share with: Adam Brody is no longer worried about only picking roles that are different to his famous The O.C. character Seth Cohen. The actor is best known for playing the awkward and nerdy Seth on the teen drama between 2003 and 2007, and while he has gone on to play many other roles in films since the end of the series, he has never been able to shake off the association with Seth. In an interview with Digital Spy to promote his new movie The Kid Detective, Brody admitted he doesnt elim...

Opens Dec. 15 Canadian filmmakers have a penchant for coming-of-age movies, so this film by writer/director Evan Morgan about arrested development reveals some initiative. Even more surprising, The Kid Detective is well written and actually fun, never mind that the light comedy and noir vibes don’t quite mesh. A prodigy of sorts in a sleepy suburban town, teenager Abe Applebaum has made a name for himself by solving low stakes cases like petty theft and larceny. But when a big case comes his...