M Categories Movies Reviews June 22, 2023 Maggie Moore(s) has plenty of talent, needs mo(o)re execution The dark comedy squanders skilled performers on serviceable laughs.
K Categories Features Movies TV April 26, 2023 Killer Looks: on Hollywood’s curious true crime casting decisions Max’s latest docudrama is just one of many times real-life killers have been given attractive makeovers for TV
B Categories Movies Reviews March 16, 2023 Boston Strangler is a solid but standard true crime drama Keira Knightley heads a capable cast as the real-life reporter who defied sexism to break one of the biggest crime stories of the 60s
M Categories Reviews TV January 6, 2023 Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street crafts forgettable television out of unforgettable crimes The horrifying ramifications of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme are tragically put on the sidelines in this repetitive docuseries.
P Categories Reviews TV December 28, 2022 Paul T. Goldman offers quite the tale, true or otherwise The Peacock true crime/behind the scenes/comedy of discomfort compels and repels, frequently in equal measure.
A Categories Features TV October 19, 2022 After The Vow Part II, take a deeper dive into the eerie world of cults If Keith Raniere and the story of NXIVM didn’t creep you out enough, give some of these cult related documentaries a try.
B Categories Reviews TV June 30, 2022 Black Bird flies over predictable ground, occasionally soars AppleTV+'s newest drama puts strong acting and writing towards another story of young women victims and the people who fight for them.
O Categories Reviews TV June 30, 2022 Only Murders in the Building finds fresh blood in Season 2 Hulu's hit mystery series expands its scope in its second season and hits a darker pattern to its true-crime pastiche.
A Categories Podcasts Right on Cue June 19, 2022 Ariel Marx on disrupting the oppressive sameness of Candy The multi-instrumentalist and composer searches for the musical fractures in the suburban idyll of Hulu's miniseries.
C Categories Reviews TV May 9, 2022 Candy is a well-crafted story of murder & desperate housewives Jessica Biel & Melanie Lynskey are excellent in Hulu’s docudrama about a bizarre 1980 murder in smalltown Texas
