All the Money in the World was barely on the pop-culture radar (a violent kidnapping movie coming out at Christmas? how cheerful!), but the news cycle of the last few months gave it an unwitting publicity. What was basically a finished film (raise your hand if you saw trailers a couple months ago) had a …
Maybe I wasn’t a normal kid, but in junior high, I remember being obsessed with what has been termed the Crime of the Century. Strangely, the librarian never questioned the fact that this 12-year-old girl kept checking out a book about the 1932 kidnapping of the most famous tot in the country at the time, …
The Sundance series The Staircase is an unusual documentary in that filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade has access to Peterson as the case was unfolding, giving a gripping account of the process of the law in the United States. Unfolding as an eight-part series of 45-minute episodes, The Staircase does take a bit of patience to …
Bernie has one of those plots that is so crazy, that it must be true. Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the most popular men in Carthage, Texas. A tubby bachelor, maybe even a little “light in the loafers”, was an outstanding citizen with a kind word for everyone. As the town’s assistant mortician, …