The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies review: Uneven thriller spins true crime on its head
1 year, 7 months ago

The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies review: Uneven thriller spins true crime on its head

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But after centuries of fictionalisation – from Arthur Conan Doyle to Richard Osman – “true crime”, a genre popularised in the last decade, felt like a rebellion against convention. The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies is, as it says, not true crime. “Whatever it is, it’s a long way from dodgy property scams,” Alice observes, as Robert cosies up to bestselling fantasy author Cheryl Harker. All this might make The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies sound quite hard hitting, but the tone is at times frothy.

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True-Crime Canon: 25 best podcasts, documentaries, and books.
1 year, 1 month ago

True-Crime Canon: 25 best podcasts, documentaries, and books.

Slate  

True-crime fandom may be booming, but that doesn’t mean that our cultural fascination with evil and transgression is new. Originally published in four parts for the New Yorker, Capote’s tale of a grisly murder on a Kansas farm offered exquisite, meditative insight into the minds of killers and the community upended by their violence—a far cry from “If it bleeds, …

Sleazy, bloody and surprisingly smart: In defense of true crime
10 years, 10 months ago

Sleazy, bloody and surprisingly smart: In defense of true crime

Salon  

Give me a book that begins with a time and a date and a boring address, something along the lines of "At 9:36 on March 24, 1982, Dep. Occasionally, true crime is where literary writers go to slum and, not coincidentally, make some real money: Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song." Plus, from Cormac McCarthy's "No …

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