Pain Hustlers
Pain Hustlers (2023), David Yates’ exposé of big pharmaceuticals, blatantly takes Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) as its aesthetic blueprint. Produced for the streaming giant Netflix, Pain Hustlers… Read more »
Tag: Netflix
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022) is a Netflix original documentary series about the Calder Road murders. In the mid-eighties Clyde Hedricks murdered several young women and dumped their… Read more »
The Gray Man
In the opening scene of The Gray Man (2022), Billy Bob Thornton’s CIA handler says to Ryan Gosling’s con and soon to be secret agent “I get it, you’re glib”,… Read more »
Girl In The Picture
The picture that filmmaker Skye Borgman draws in her true crime documentary Girl In The Picture (2022) is one of a misogynist system that utterly fails to protect women. Social… Read more »
The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
The Joe Berlinger series Conversations With A Killer on Netflix has had an immeasurable impact on the true crime documentary genre. Berlinger’s second series, The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022),… Read more »
The Night Clerk
Michael Cristofer’s film The Night Clerk (2020), a Netflix original, takes more than a few cues from the films of Brian De Palma. The Night Clerk employs both Hitchcockian and… Read more »
The Ripper
The Ripper (2020) is a four-part documentary series by Ellena Wood and Jesse Vile about the Yorkshire Ripper that was released via Netflix. Formally The Ripper plays out like any… Read more »
Sons Of Sam
Things like Making A Murderer (2015 – 2018) just do not happen every day. It’s rare that a documentary film or series constructively impacts our society let alone changes the… Read more »
Wrapped In Plastic
Twin Peaks (1990-91), the brainchild of creators Mark Frost and David Lynch, has, in the last decade, risen above cult status. In part this is due to Lynch’s Oscar nominated… Read more »
