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Hosted by Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 111 episodes
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Two crime fiction authors, Dr Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth, investigate the movies and TV shows that shape pop culture! No case is too big or small for these cinematic sleuths!
Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth hosts Cinema Sleuths, a tv show with 111 episodes published.
This week, we're investigating ROBOCOP (1987) starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Special guest is S
The game is afoot! Between 2009-2012 Sherlock Holmes exploded on the big and small screens with the Robert Downey Jr / Jude Law film directed by Guy Ritchie as well as the hit BBC series SHERLOCK created by Steven Moffat
This week, we discuss some of this summer's blockbuster hits and flops. We investigate Supergirl 2026 starring Milly Alcock, Toy Story 5, and Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY. Cinema Sleuths is produced by Luke Deckard
This week, we're back with a banger, and we're joined by crime fiction author and expert Maxim Jakubowski! THE CASE: THE LONG GOODBYE 1973 Starring: Elliot Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, and Mark Rydell Writt
This week, WE GO APE with CIMEMA MISFIRES as we look back at 25 years of Tim Burton's PLANET OF THE APES (2001), starring Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Estella
HULKS SMASH! This week your investigators are looking at HULK (2003) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) in BATTLE OF THE BIG SCREEN HULKS to see which of these two outings is the ultimate HULK movie... with special guest Nei
Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is THIEF (1981). Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson, and James Belushi. Written and directed by Michael Mann! Mean Streets is produced
This week we are taking a bite out of Ryan Coogler's SINNERS (2025), starring Michael B Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Wumi Mosaku, Miles Caton, Delroy Lindo, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Thomas Pang, Jack O'Connell and Buddy Guy
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... things weren't exactly as we remember them." In Part 3 of our three-part investigation (STAR WARS: A TRILOGY OF RETCONS), we’re looking at the film that started it all: RETURN
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... things weren't exactly as we remember them." In Part 2 of our three-part investigation (STAR WARS: A TRILOGY OF RETCONS), we’re looking at the film with cinema's most iconic
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... things weren't exactly as we remember them." May the Fourth be with you! To celebrate, Cinema Sleuths is opening the case files on the trilogy that changed cinema. In Part 1
Your cinematic sleuths are back! This week are joined by author, editor, and crime fiction buff Martin Edwards as we investigate 1987's NO WAY OUT! Starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, and Will Patton. Based
That's right! Cinema Sleuths kicks off on May the fourth with a three-part series that dives into the original theatrical releases of STAR WARS and explores the retcons that made the franchise what it is today! Be sure t
Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! And this week we've got Sergio Angelini from Tipping My Fedora joining us! THE CASE: The 1945 Pre-release version of THE BIG SLEEP. Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Mar
This week your cinematic sleuths are investigating NOTORIOUS (1946). Starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Leopoldine Konstantin. Written by Ben Hecht. Loosely based on the short story 'The Song of the D
That's right. Big changes are happening at the offices of Deckard and Booth! Mean Streets is expanding beyond FILM NOIR to investigate the films and TV shows that define pop culture, from big hits to big misses and beyon
Your cinematic sleuths are back at it! This week's case is FEMME FATALE (2002). Starring Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Rie Rasmussen, Peter Coyote, Gregg Henry, and Eriq Ebouaney. Written and directed by Brian De Pal
This week we're back with a special guest! Joining your cinematic Sleuths to investigate Bryan Singers The Usual Suspects is our pal Skye, one of the masterminds and voices behind FILM 89 podcast! THE CASE: THE USUAL SUS
On this episode of Debriefed, Luke and Matt talk about various crime shows they've watched, including YOUNG SHERLOCK, CROSS, and the animated adaptation of WATCHMEN. Plus we offer our take on the LANTERNS trailer and mor
COMING MAY 2026! Join Luke Deckard and Matthew Booth—hosts of Mean Streets: The Film Noir Podcast—as they expand their case load with an exciting new project: Cinema Sleuths. Each week, we investigate the films and TV sh
Miles Caton
Sinners
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Buddy Guy
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Delroy Lindo
Best Supporting Actor
1 appearance on this show
Hailee Steinfeld
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Jack O'Connell
actor · Dr. Brewlittle's Beer Co.
1 appearance on this show
Jack O'Connell
Co-Founder and Director of Operations · Dr. Brewlittle's Beer Co.
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George Lucas
Documentary · Faybl
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Martin Edwards
crime novelist, editor and President of the Detection Club
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Cary Grant
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Ingrid Bergman
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Peter Coyote
actor, activist, Zen priest
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Antonio Banderas
El Mariachi
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