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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
Grand Jury Hammers Owens
SXSW hit-and-run driver receives additional charges
"...SXSW’s Red River hit-and-run with one count of capital murder, four counts of felony murder, and 24 counts of..."
May 20, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger
West of Memphis
Eighteen years of wrongful imprisonment and four documentaries still don't put to rest the trials of the West Memphis Three.
"...Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers – were murdered in West Memphis, Ark. Police arrested three teenagers –..."
March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner
TV Review: 'The Staircase'
Sundance Channel re-airs true-crime miniseries with a new coda
"...study of the ambiguities of the 2001 Michael Peterson murder case – it’s an understated exploration of a bizarre..."
Jan. 7, 2013 Screens Post by Eli Black
Point Austin: Recalling Eroy Brown
Groundbreaking Texas inmate murder case reflects long fight for justice
"...of recent but nearly forgotten state history. Subtitled The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System, the book..."
