NO TEARS IN HELL
A film often feels like a callback to the torture porn era, despite a prestigious veneer that places it on an elevated, but still extremely horrific, plane.
THE KILLING OF THE UNICORN: DOROTHY STRATTEN 1960-1980
A grief-fueled remembrance of the late Dorothy Stratten by “the director who loved her.”
FEVER YEAR: THE KILLER FLU OF 1918
A powerful graphic novel depiction of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918-19
FAMINE ’33
A chronicle of the Holodomor, or Artificial Famine, that afflicted Ukraine in 1932-33, engineered by Stalin to (it’s been claimed) crush Ukrainian resistance to Soviet rule
HOLLYWOOD ENDING: HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND THE CULTURE OF SILENCE
The latest in a long line of nonfiction accounts of the crimes committed by Harvey Weinstein
On WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP
A rare (perhaps sole) example of surreal history
RAMPAGE (1987/92)
From the sometimes-great William Friedkin, a so-so serial killer drama
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
LAID BARE
In which true crime author John Gilmore lays bare his early years as an actor, and his dealings with the soon-to-be-famous
CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN
The first solo novel by Richard Chizmar was this unique account of crime and detection, which blends autobiography and crime fiction