Norwood Trial: Setting the Scene of the Crime

Testimony began Tuesday in long-awaited murder trial

"...the state’s case against Mark Norwood for the 1988 murder of Debra Baker. The trial’s 12 jurors saw nine..."

Sept. 14, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Suspect in UT Homicide Arrested

Meechaiel Khalil Criner suspected of killing Haruka Weiser

"...Police have made an arrest in the murder of 18-year-old University of Texas student Haruka Weiser. Friday..."

April 8, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Side Effects

Jagged turns and sinuous style are the mark of Steven Soderbergh's taut drama, which stars the very well-cast Rooney Mara and Jude Law.

"...modern-day “problem” movie, but then morphs into a curious murder mystery in which the question is not whodunit but,..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Framing the Guilty?

Houston police thought they had their man – so the evidence was no problem

"...said matched the crime. Hughes was charged with capital murder, and seven months later was sentenced to death...."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Barrera Killer Dead?

APD says New Year's Day attacker may be dead

"...Austin Police say a likely suspect in the murder of Esme Barrera is dead...."

Jan. 26, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Williamson County Injustice

Morton attorneys call for court of inquiry

"...in which Morton was finally exonerated for the 1986 murder of his wife, Christine. Morton was freed after wrongly..."

Dec. 21, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Miracle at St. Anna

Spike Lee fights the good fight but loses the battle in his bloated and muddled World War II epic that pays tribute to the Army's Buffalo Soldiers.

"...for the viewer. It’s a war movie and a murder mystery, a history lesson and a sentimental melodrama all..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...Timothy Webber. Corruption, immorality, decadence, secrecy, loyalty, selfishness, selflessness, murder, love, sex, and indigestion are all swirling around one..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cassandra's Dream

Woody Allen is still making movies at the rate of at least one a year. The problem is that he doesn’t make good movies at the rate of one a year.

"...meditation on the consequences of immorality, this time the murder of a London man by two affable but down-on-their-luck..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...By all visible evidence, Will filmed his own murder. But this is Mexico, where justice is spelled i-m-p-u-n-i-t-y..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

The Dead Girl

The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.

"...dead. Moncrieff, who also wrote the script, creates a murder mystery with little mystery, a thriller about a serial..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Witness says student was in love with Pitonyak

"...Pitonyak by helping him flee to Mexico after the murder of 21-year-old Jennifer Cave. Pitonyak has been charged with..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Monster

Charlize Theron gives a ferocious performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

"...the work and her own capacities since she recently murdered a john who brutally raped her. Disturbingly, we can..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Somebody Has to Die

The conviction of Robert Springsteen in the yogurt shop murders leaves many questions unanswered.

"...three defendants to be tried for the notorious 1991 murders of four teenage girls in a North Austin I..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Kent Oscar, P.i.

"...various Austin locations. The first-timer's film is a noir-styled murder mystery about a private eye who is enlisted to..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

Murder, My Sweet

"...Woman (1943). In 1944 he began an extraordinary run: Murder, My Sweet (1944), Back To Bataan (1945), Cornered (1945),..."

July 9, 1999 Screens Feature

Goodbye Lover

"...puzzle box of a film, a deeply cynical, blacker-than-black murder mystery that struggles valiantly to stay one step ahead..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Inheritors

"...farmhands unexpectedly inherit their master's property after his mysterious murder. Wealthy landowners and self-righteous townspeople connive to take it..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charlie's Ear

"...his apartment. According to them, Harold hired them to murder his wife, and they've done just that. Have they?..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Swoon

This classic of the New Queer Cinema is intrigues with its dreamy romanticism and eroticization of the infamous child murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in 1923.

"...and Valda Z. Drabla. Even by today's standards, the murder of 13-year-old Bobby Franks in 1923 Chicago shocks the..."

Dec. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

He Spent Four Years in Jail. Now Charges Are Dropped.

Cyrus Gray murder trial is off

"...The capital murder case against Cyrus Gray is collapsing. On Monday, Hays..."

July 18, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Exploring the Life and Death of Jennifer Cave in True Crime Podcast The Orange Tree

Former UT students Tinu Thomas and Haley Butler find a history of murder on campus

"...UT-Austin, their conversations would inevitably circle back to the murder of Jennifer Cave, which occurred mere yards away, behind..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Screens Feature by David Sotelo

Esther's Follies Meets Scooby-Doo in The Haunting of the Tavern

In this new murder mystery comedy, chasing Emily the ghost leads to some real high jinkies!

"...to Emily, a 12-year-old girl said to have been murdered on the site in Prohibition days, when the building..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hate U Give

Astounding adaptation of YA novel critiques race in modern America

"...social commentary comes. In the chaotic wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, #blacklivesmatter, #bluelivesmatter, and #alllivesmatter, Tillman Jr.’s..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

A true-crime family mystery indicts decades of racial violence.

"...Wilkerson attempts to get some answers regarding a family murder mystery: In 1946 rural Alabama, his great-grandfather S.E. Branch,..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Gemini

Noir murder mystery for the selfie generation.

"...the telling. Director Aaron Katz’s Gemini is a neon-drenched murder mystery – or is it? – for the selfie..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...heartbroken mother of a teenage girl whose rape and murder months earlier has yet to be solved. In her..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crown Heights

Another reminder of racial inequality in the American prison system

"...of Brooklyn, who was jailed in 1980 for a murder he did not commit. He remained in prison for..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rodney Reed Hearing Set for October

Exculpatory evidence at issue in four-day hearing

"...for nearly two decades on death row for the murder of Stacey Stites, will get another chance to prove..."

July 9, 2017 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Child 44

Tom Hardy leads an international cast in this Soviet-era serial killer thriller

"...to comply with the cover-up of an obvious child murder and then denounce his wife Raisa (Rapace) as a..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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