Tag: Making a Murderer
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This True Crime Trilogy Is the Genre’s Best
Before Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos took the world by storm with their Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, and even longer before Tiger King became a title synonymous with the first days of the Covid-19 lockdown, another film series left its stamp on the true crime genre. The year was 1996 and filmmakers Joe Berlinger…
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Best True Crime Shows on HBO Max (July 2023)
If you’ve burned through the classics like Tiger King: Murder, Madness, and Mayhem (and the dramatized series Joe Vs Carole), Nightstalker, and Making a Murderer on Netflix, HBO Max contains several engrossing true-crime series that are worth the watch. Whether it be con artists, murderers, or Hollywood stars, every kind of criminal under the sun…
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15 Highest-Rated Netflix Documentaries, Ranked According to Rotten Tomatoes
When you think of Netflix documentaries, most would immediately think of some of the more popular releases, such as Making a Murderer (2015) or Tiger King (2020) (one of the best Netflix documentaries of all time). Since Netflix has begun pushing out multiple documentary titles, viewers are regularly finding themselves blown away by Oscar-worthy takes…
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‘The Staircase’: Everything to Know About the Colin Firth-Led HBO Max Drama
True crime has become a defining genre on television these days, moving away from the world of documentary and into prestigious narrative filmmaking. In the wake of successful true crime docs like “The Jinx,” HBO is presenting a big, splashy, star-studded look at a case that has captivated audiences for over a decade. The latest…
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‘Atlanta’s Missing & Murdered’ Is A Brutal, Heartbreaking Return To True-Crime Basics [Review]
True-crime has become the genre du jour for many streaming platforms and networks. However, spectacles such as “Making a Murderer,” “The Jinx,” “The Staircase,” and, most recently, “Tiger King” have painted the disturbing genre as an opportunity for armchair detectives and meme-generators to watch for all the wrong reasons. Often, the crimes are reduced to…
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‘Unbelievable’: Kaitlyn Dever Delivers A Stunning Performance In New Netflix Sexual Assault Drama [Review]
Since its earliest venture into true crime, Netflix has hooked viewers on the world’s most perplexing cases. The details of these—from the mysterious fire poker of “The Staircase” fame to the shocking abuse of police power in “Making a Murderer” —have made amateur sleuths of us all. The streaming platform hasn’t quite spanned the entire…
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What’s Coming to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime in October 2018
Horror pics are making a return across the board as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime update their streaming platforms for the spooky season.“The Shining” will kick off Netflix’s horror film slate, followed by “Truth or Dare” with Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey, “The Haunting of Molly Hartley,” and the Netflix original “The Haunting of Hill…
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Daily Podcast: Guardians 3, Michael Moore, Making a Murderer, Harry Potter, Wild Bunch, Girl in the Spider’s Web, Apple & Bumblebee
On the September 25, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk what the latest film and tv news, including Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Michael Moore, Making a Murderer Part 2, Fantastic Beasts 2, The Wild Bunch, The Girl in the…