Tag: The Jinx
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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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‘The Thing About Pam’ Trailer: Renée Zellweger Portrays Midwestern Murderess In Upcoming NBC True Crime Drama
If any genre’s stock has grown over the past decade, it’s been that of true crime. A trend that began in the mid-2010s with podcasts and docuseries like HBO’s “The Jinx” and Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” soon gave way to splashy TV fictionalizations like “Mindhunter” and FX’s “American Crime Story” series. The latest developments have…
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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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‘The Jinx’: Revisiting the Documentary as Robert Durst’s Trial Begins in Los Angeles
The trial of Robert Durst, the infamous murder suspect who was the focus of HBO’s acclaimed 2015 “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” documentary miniseries, began this week. Also on trial: “The Jinx.”Durst, a 76-year-old millionaire heir to a New York real estate fortune, is on trial in Los Angeles for the…
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‘Lost Girls’: Film Review
It’s exciting, and fascinating, to see a great director of documentaries try his or her hand at a dramatic feature, since in theory the essential skill set should all be there. The best documentarians possess an acute visual sense, and they are all, of course, potent storytellers. Yet for every attempt at this sort of…