The Nice Guys review - cracking comic caper

A private detective and an enforcer try to find a missing girl in Los Angeles in 1977.

Shane Black is the man who, in his tender 20s, earned a quarter of a million dollars for the script to Lethal Weapon. The same year it released, he featured in Predator and also contributed to that script, later working on The Last Boy Scout and Last Action Hero.

He was a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood… and then disappeared, returning with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005. And it was pure Black, with a wicked sense of humour, a pulpy plot and amazing casting in Robert Downey jr and Val Kilmer.