Thursday, July 1 2010
The Seven-Layered Arsenic Cake of Madame LaFarge and Other Crime Classics
Crime Classics, a 1953 CBS ‘true crime’ radio series, seems to be something of a slap in the face to audiences’ sense of identification and notions of self-importance, presenting a vision of a callous and petty world where the individual matters little, and their thoughts and feelings matter less.
Monday, November 16 2009
Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut
Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.
Tuesday, September 4 2007
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
The "red parts" in question are those of Maggie Nelson's Aunt Jane.
Wednesday, August 1 2007
Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case by Carol Pogash
What makes Pogash's book so powerful is that it evokes the universal bafflement we feel over the tortured relationships some other people endure.
Wednesday, August 11 2004
True Crime: Streets of LA
Restraint in a lawless world is hard. Cops have to tangle with folks that have total freedom of action every day, and they need to do it the hard way, the frustrating way. They have to follow the rules even though they get to carry a gun.
Wednesday, December 10 2003
True Crime: Streets of LA
You can only listen to Kang shout 'It's Dim Sum time!' as he shoots up a Chinese gang so many times before you start to get uncomfortable.
Sunday, January 1 1995
True Crime: New York City
The game continues to remind you that being a good cop in such a rough and violent occupation is less than easy.
True Crime (1999)
Steve Everett is an old-school newspaper reporter, the kind who has improbable hunches that turn out to be right, who gives investigative reporters a good name, who's relegated to fiction these days. He's also more complicated than that, a self-styled macho boozer and womanizer, but recently slipped into another state, feeling confused and a little pathetic.
