Is Arsenic and Old Lace a true-crime story?
Film historians have always tied the Frank Capra classic Arsenic and Old Lace to a Connecticut serial poisoner; we’re not so sure.
View ArticleGross anatomy: The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
Grave-robbing, Blofeld, and the murder of George Rose in one of the many (!) film takes on the Burke/Hare case.
View ArticlePathological: The Lies of Joran Van Der Sloot could have been so much more
The new NBC News documentary places the man who killed Natalee Holloway and Stephany Flores front and center, but it didn't have to.
View ArticleThe Docket 04.11.24: Not mad, just disappointed
Your co-hosts, bracing for another PR blast...or Colin Firth and Toni Collette in HBO's scripted version of The Staircase. (HBO)
View ArticleChicago (1927): Ragtime, slapstick, and “yesterday’s news”
Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver) tries to sell the DA (Warner Richmond) on her story. Will the 1927 silent movie sell YOU? (DeMille Pictures Corp)
View ArticleThe Docket 04.18.24: Let us now praise (not) famous (enough) true crime
6 recent properties we wish had gotten more attention and love, plus justice for Jennifer Lopez and colon fatigue. (Not that kind.)
View ArticleThe Basketball Fix shoots an airball
The fact that the "college kid" lead is clearly 30 doesn't help -- but is the real problem that hoops-gambling scandals just don't translate to the big screen?
View ArticleWhere Texas Monthly’s Hit Man ends, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man begins
The title card for Hit Man, with Glen Powell as Gary driving a pointed Honda Civic. Did director Richard Linklater's springboard script choices succeed? (Netflix)
View ArticleTwo filmic takes on the Lonely Hearts Killers
Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco as the titular Lonely Hearts Killers, Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez. Is their 1970 cult classic on the case worth your time? (Roxanne)
View ArticleWoman Of The Hour: There are no winners here
Except Anna Kendrick; her directing debut is an affecting and infuriating take on the Dating Game Killer case.
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