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11 Sep

Lucifer Season 6 Episode 5 Review: The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 6 Episode 5 “I think it’s time for Detective Decker to make a comeback.” It’s difficult to say which of the narrative reveals found in “The Murder of Lucifer Morningstar” will produce the most dramatic results as Lucifer reaches the halfway point of its final season. Nevertheless, Lucifer’s ascension to God’s throne seems to be on hold as his obsession with learning the truth about his disappearance from his daughter’s life moves to the front of the story line. And then there’s time travel. Given the nature of Aurora’s tale of abandonment and…
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29 Aug

Vigil Episode 1 Review: A Top Twist On the Trid-ent Tested Murder Mystery

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Warning: This Vigil review contains spoilers. A booming naval salute to Vigil, which marks the return of the Sunday night BBC One drama after a long absence for reasons of football, Olympics, and allegedly, summer sunshine. From the writer of BBC detective series Strike, this thriller is just the thing to take us into autumn. It has it all: peril, intrigue, murder, Suranne Jones being winched from a helicopter onto a submarine like a prize toy in an arcade claw machine, and a conspiracy that (likely) goes all the way to the heart of the top of the uppermost ridge of the establishment. Strap in.  “How…
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25 May

Mare of Easttown: Why Ryan Ross is Key to the Erin Murder Mystery

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Warning: contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episodes 1-6. Crime mystery dramas have various mechanisms for holding back essential witness information until a final episode. The coma trick – whereby a witness spends most of the series lying unresponsive in a hospital bed and then wakes up just in time to provide the penultimate episode cliff-hanger – is tried and tested. Another fix is to make the witness a criminal/adulterer/relapsing addict who stays quiet about what they know because it would also incriminate them. Alternatively, you could just make the key witness a person nobody would think to interrogate until the last…
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17 May

Batwoman Shows Us Why a Group of Crows is Called a Murder

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 14. Batwoman has been going hard on their criticism of the Crows—and law enforcement by proxy—so it is no surprise that the show would Go There. Yet despite the season-long setup for Crows or cops to do something blasé, like shoot an unarmed Black man, the fact that they made me watch an unarmed Black man get shot on my television in this year of our lord is truly a f*cking choice. Is it crack? We spend time in the episode proving that Tavaroff is a racist piece of shit with…
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10 May

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and the Perils of Taking on a Real Life Murder

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It’s the eighth part in the Conjuring universe, the third starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren, yet director Michael Chavez says The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is going to be “very different” from the rest of the franchise. After revealing the first 11 minutes of the film to journalists, Chavez, who also made Conjuring universe movie The Curse of La LLorona, explains that the intention for the third installment of the main franchise was always to “blow the doors off the haunted house experience and take the Warrens out into the world,”…
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20 Apr

Sasquatch: Hulu Docuseries Director on Murder by Bigfoot

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Some legends are so powerful they can never die, but they might be able to kill. That is a pervading idea behind Sasquatch, Hulu’s three-part murder-mystery documentary that explores a strange story of the famous cryptid tearing three men limb from limb on a pot farm in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle. Fittingly premiering on April 20 a.k.a. the weed holiday “420” the series is told through the eyes of investigative journalist David Holthouse. A man who has built his career chasing monstrous humans, such as Neo-Nazis and sexual predators, Holthouse heard of these Bigfoot murders back in 1993 while laying…
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19 Apr

Mare of Easttown’s Saddest Moment Isn’t Even the Murder

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This article contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episode 1. There’s a dead body at the end of Mare of Easttown’s first episode. But you already knew that.  Even if you’ve not seen episode 1, “Miss Lady Hawk Herself”, you just intrinsically know that the HBO series starring Kate Winslet as an Eastern Pennsylvanian detective features a murder. That’s because crime dramas on television have developed a consistent, grim rhythm. From Broadchurch to True Detective to beyond, the first episode of any given crime drama will feature the discovery of a dead body.  The body in question will have belonged…
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29 Mar

Line of Duty: Did the Daniel Morgan Murder Inspire Series 6?

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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series six, episode two. From the Brink’s-Mat Robbery, to predatory sex offender Jimmy Savile, the scripts for police drama Line of Duty are peppered with mention of real-world criminal cases. Blending reality and fiction cements the show’s naturalism and feeds into each series’ themes. Series six revolves around the investigation into the murder of fictional journalist Gail Vella, played by Andi Osho. The first episode opens just over a year since Vella was fatally shot outside her home, in which time no suspects have been charged. The officer leading the investigation is suspected…
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11 Mar

Nancy Drew Season 2 Episode 7 Review: The Legend of the Murder Hotel

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This Nancy Drew review contains spoilers At some point, the fact that the town of Horseshoe Bay contains a hotel where the walls occasionally weep blood will stop being surprising, and yet, here we are. It’s just another week on Nancy Drew! Granted, Room 413 in the Breaker Hotel may be at least partially an owner-run hoax – Nancy isn’t even sure that anyone even died there, in the end – but it wouldn’t shock me if it actually turned out to be haunted anyway. Practically everything else in this town is, after all. When a college girl goes missing…
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05 Mar

Link Tank: Why You Should Watch Murder Among the Mormons on Netflix

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Netflix’s Murder Among the Mormons is the newest true crime documentary you should be watching. “Over the course of its twist-filled three episodes, Murder Among the Mormons, the latest Netflix true-crime docuseries about a series of deadly bombings in Utah in 1985, reveals itself to be a canny study of belief. The con artist, particularly one who traffics in forged documents, preys on the widespread instinct to trust that the spectacular item being offered up is authentic.” Read more at Thrillist. From Alfred Russel Wallace to Caroline Herschel, here are some under-appreciated scientists throughout history. “From under-appreciated geologists to the…
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06 Oct

American Murder: The Family Next Door: How Far is Too Far for True Crime?

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The latest buzzy Netflix documentary tells the story of Chris Watts who murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and their two daughters Celeste and Bella. In this doc we hear the 911 call from Shanann’s friend Nickole Atkinson the morning of her death and the police footage of the moments they arrived at the house to find a frantic Nickole and later a very cagey Chris Watts. We see the last text messages Shanann sent and the last moments her daughters were alive. And we see Chris Watts lying about Shanann and their kids’ disappearance mere hours after he had killed…
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29 Sep

American Murder: The Family Next Door

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In 2018, 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two young daughters went missing in Frederick, Colorado. As heartbreaking details emerged, their story made headlines worldwide. Told entirely through archival footage that includes social media posts, law enforcement recordings, text messages and never-before-seen home videos, director Jenny Popplewell pieces together an immersive and truthful examination of a police investigation and a disintegrating marriage.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Sep 30, 2020
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11 Sep

Why Hunt A Killer Is the Perfect Murder Mystery Game for Amateur Sleuths

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This article is sponsored by: Have you ever watched a crime show and thought you could solve the mystery better than the detectives? Is your ideal night out a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater? Are you a true crime aficionado? Do you love deciphering coded messages? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Hunt A Killer may be the game for you. While I will admit to having a low scare tolerance, I’ve loved murder mysteries since growing up on reruns of Murder She Wrote. Given the inaccessibility of events like dinner theater during the pandemic, the idea of…
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21 May

The Lovebirds: Inside Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae’s Murder Mystery

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The thing about relationships is the honeymoon period always ends. When faced with the banality of routine or potential deal breakers, some couples go to therapy; others try to spice things up; and some… accidentally help kill a man, then go on the run together to clear their names. In The Lovebirds, Michael Showalter’s murder mystery comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae, there’s nothing like running through New Orleans in a unicorn onesie, surviving interrogation via horse, and infiltrating a Handmaid’s Tale-esque secret ceremony to remind you why you fell in love. Nanjiani and Showalter previously worked together on…
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30 Apr

Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story

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In 2004, 16-year-old Cyntoia Denise Brown was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, for murdering a 43-year-old man who picked her up for sex. She was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison — Cyntoia’s fate seemed sealed. The film shows the complexity of a child who was the product of three generations of violence against women in her biological family. And how in 2019, after nearly 10 years of legal challenges, Governor Bill Haslam granted her request for clemency. He did so following a slow shift in the state for legislative change in juvenile sentencing laws and having…
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14 Jun

Murder Mystery

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
When a NYC cop (Adam Sandler) finally takes his wife (Jennifer Aniston) on a long promised European trip, a chance meeting on the flight gets them invited to an intimate family gathering on the Super Yacht of elderly billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is murdered, they become the prime suspects in a modern day whodunit.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Jun 14, 2019
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17 Jul

The Third Murder

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori's chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim's family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 20, 2018
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15 Jan

Murder On The Orient Express Blu-ray/DVD release date, special features

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When you’re telling a story on the big screen, that’s been covered plenty of times, to which many know the finishing, the trick is in the way you tell it. As director, Kenneth Branagh has been here generally earlier than, most recently along with his sumptuous staging of Cinderella. And he brings the equal richness and sheer energy he injected that film with to his strong take on Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express. The fundamentals are within the identify, of route. The ensemble board the Orient Express. There’s a murder. Poirot has to resolve the case. As a…
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06 Nov

Murder on the Orient Express

Max SchindlerMovie reviews, ,
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Nov 10, 2017
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