As someone who spent the first eight years of my life in a turbulent, abusive household, generational trauma is something I have thought about often throughout my adulthood. For some, there is a palpable fear…
True Crime
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Streaming DocumentariesStreaming Reviews
‘The Women and the Murderer’ Is a True Crime Documentary With a Unique Perspective
by Ingridjeby IngridjeThe Women and the Murderer starts with a series of clips of young, happy women dancing, going out. This footage is interspersed with pictures and images of murder scenes. Then, we are introduced to Anne…
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DocumentaryReviews
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Enemies of the State’
by James Y. Leeby James Y. LeeTake one look at, say, Netflix’s vast documentary catalog, and you’ll instantly realize that the true-crime documentary genre has found itself in a state of oversaturation. From the litany of same-ish docs on streaming services…
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The “new” movie City of Lies is based on a 2002 nonfiction book called (deep breath), LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records’ Suge…
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HorrorReviews
Bret Easton Ellis and Crispin Glover Team Up for the Painfully Dull ‘Smiley Face Killers’
Bret Easton Ellis was just twenty-one years old when he published his first novel: Less Than Zero. Success followed, and with the publication of the highly controversial third novel, American Psycho, came fame. As an…
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DocumentaryReviews
‘The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper’ Tells an American Outlaw Tale
by Brian Connorby Brian ConnorOn November 24, 1971, D.B. Cooper jumped out of a plane with two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money and disappeared. Now, the phrase “living the dream” is thrown around a lot these days, but……
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On February 13th, 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia after being attacked with the VX nerve agent, an extremely toxic chemical that has…
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I should warn you, this retrospective on the 20th anniversary of Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam is going to make me sound like a prude. Despite the risk of said label, I maintain that this movie…
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Streaming ReviewsStreaming Thriller
Film Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
by Nick Kushby Nick KushI finally settled a personal vendetta by sitting down to watch Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. I grew increasingly frustrated after striking out on three screenings of the film at Sundance back in January,…