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The JonBenét detective who went to his grave fighting for the Ramseys to be cleared

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Director of JonBenét Ramsey Netflix doc changes his mind on the crime

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7 months ago

"Holocaust denial ... was turning into 'Hitler was right'": Director on urgency of Nazi docuseries

Salon

Whenever Joe Berlinger makes a docuseries, he told me in a recent conversation, he always looks for the social justice angle. Shirer’s “Berlin Diary,” published in 1941, and his exhaustive 1960 publication of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” remain among the most authoritative first-person accounts of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Through Shirer’s testimony and presenting the Nuremberg …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus FAQ: Is It Ethical To Lie To Get A Booster Or A Shot For An Under-12 Kid?

NPR

Coronavirus FAQ: Is It Ethical To Lie To Get A Booster Or A Shot For An Under-12 Kid? First, the practical: The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not OK'd additional shots, and lying about a birth date or past vaccination history introduces potential medical problems and billing hassles not only for you …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Amanda Knox is innocent – why won’t Hollywood let her disappear?

The Independent

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3 years, 6 months ago

Extremely Wicked filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends angry email to director behind new Ted Bundy project

The Independent

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3 years, 8 months ago

Samuel Little: New documentary seeks answers on how America’s deadliest serial killer preyed on ‘less dead’

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3 years, 10 months ago

Guilt, envy, distrust: Vaccine rollout breeds mixed emotions

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In other cases, Berlinger says judgements could reflect entrenched …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Elisa Lam documentary director: ‘I really believe this closes the book on her case’

The Independent

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3 years, 11 months ago

‘Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil’ will open first virtual SXSW Film Festival

LA Times

The South By Southwest Film Festival is pulling back the curtain on programming for its first virtual edition, including the world premiere of opening night headliner “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil.” Directed by Michael D. Ratner, the YouTube Originals docuseries takes a look at the pop singer’s near-fatal 2018 overdose and its aftermath. The festival will screen all four …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Elisa Lam: Netflix documentary Crime Scene to investigate death of student

The Independent

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4 years, 5 months ago

Hong Kong’s vast $3.8 billion rain-tunnel network

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Hong Kong CNN — Below the mountains that overlook Hong Kong’s financial district, drainage engineer Alex Lau is ankle-deep in water flowing into a giant tunnel almost twice the height of a double-decker bus. Part of a ground-breaking, $3.8 billion drainage network, this tunnel runs nearly the length of Hong Kong Island and has saved the city from floods that …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Hong Kong: Defiance and fear after China-backed national security law takes hold

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — If Beijing thought a new national security law would guarantee a quiet birthday for Hong Kong, it was mistaken. Riot police detain a man after they cleared protesters taking part in a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. Video Ad Feedback CNN speaks to only Hong Konger on …

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4 years, 8 months ago

The West Memphis three: How a trilogy of HBO documentaries helped free three men convicted of murder

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5 years, 1 month ago

Hong Kong Polytechnic university after hundreds of protesters fled

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Hong Kong CNN — Last week, thousands of student protesters streamed into Hong Kong Polytechnic University and occupied the campus as the city’s violent political unrest reached fever pitch. Joshua Berlinger/CNN Thousands of unused petrol bombs littered the campus on the path to the canteen, which had become something of a main headquarters for the protesters. Joshua Berlinger/CNN A statue …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Review: A strong Efron, but little else new in Bundy biopic

Associated Press

When Ted Bundy died in the electric chair 30 years ago in Florida, a witness to the execution — a prosecutor in the case of a 12-year-old girl Bundy murdered — told the New York Times: “He probably could have done anything he set his mind to do, but something happened to him and we still don’t know what it …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Review: Zac Efron goes dark as Ted Bundy, but ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ is irritatingly coy

LA Times

Film Critic In “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” an exasperatingly oblique account of the life and crimes of Ted Bundy, the actual crimes remain almost entirely off-screen. “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” is a rare but not unprecedented foray into dramatization for Berlinger, whose groundbreaking true-crime documentaries, including “Brother’s Keeper” and the “Paradise Lost” trilogy, have often examined …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes review — A compelling but sketchy portrait of a psychopath

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The title of Joe Berlinger’s Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is a bit of a misnomer, in that it creates the expectation of a full and frank discussion of how Bundy came to be among the most notorious serial killers in the US. Berlinger’s docu-series comes to Netflix just as his feature film on Bundy — Extremely …

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5 years, 11 months ago

‘The Ted Bundy Tapes’ and ‘Shockingly Evil’: Why Joe Berlinger doubled down on the serial killer

LA Times

The timing was uncanny: Days apart, on the weekend marking the 30th anniversary of the execution of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger premiered his Zac Efron-starring Bundy film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” at the Sundance Film Festival and unveiled the four-part docuseries “The Ted Bundy Tapes” to voracious true-crime fanatics on Netflix. “’Do …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy movie and Netflix’s documentary series, reviewed.

Slate

Joe Berlinger’s four-hour Netflix series about Ted Bundy is called Conversations with a Killer, but its dialogues tend to only run one way. Subtitled “The Ted Bundy Tapes,” the series is built around more than 100 hours of audiotape recordings with the jailed serial killer, recorded by journalists Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth during Bundy’s nine years on death row. …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile movie review: Zac Efron's Ted Bundy biopic is incredibly problematic, shallow

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You could bring up the names of Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein in conversation with a group of film lovers or pop-culture fiends from anywhere around the world, and it is likely you’ll see delighted faces, all ready to indulge in an intense discussion. Joe Berlinger’s darkly comic portrait of Ted Bundy begins with the incredibly charismatic …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Extremely Wicked trailer sparks criticism for 'sexualising' Zac Efron's role as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The trailer for Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Conversations with a Killer review: Netflix takes stab at profiling terrifying serial killer Ted Bundy

Hindustan Times

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes Director - Joe Berlinger Rating - 2.5/5 Conversations with a Killer review: Netflix’s latest true crime series profiles serial killer Ted Bundy. “Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile.” This was how the judge described serial killer Ted Bundy’s crimes, before he sentenced him to death. Watch the Conversations with a Killer: The …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Netflix’s Ted Bundy documentary and the problem with peak true crime

The Independent

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The JonBenét detective who went to his grave fighting for the Ramseys to be cleared

Director of JonBenét Ramsey Netflix doc changes his mind on the crime

"Holocaust denial ... was turning into 'Hitler was right'": Director on urgency of Nazi docuseries

Coronavirus FAQ: Is It Ethical To Lie To Get A Booster Or A Shot For An Under-12 Kid?

Amanda Knox is innocent – why won’t Hollywood let her disappear?

Extremely Wicked filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends angry email to director behind new Ted Bundy project

Samuel Little: New documentary seeks answers on how America’s deadliest serial killer preyed on ‘less dead’

Guilt, envy, distrust: Vaccine rollout breeds mixed emotions

Elisa Lam documentary director: ‘I really believe this closes the book on her case’

‘Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil’ will open first virtual SXSW Film Festival

Elisa Lam: Netflix documentary Crime Scene to investigate death of student

Hong Kong’s vast $3.8 billion rain-tunnel network

Hong Kong: Defiance and fear after China-backed national security law takes hold

The West Memphis three: How a trilogy of HBO documentaries helped free three men convicted of murder

Hong Kong Polytechnic university after hundreds of protesters fled

Review: A strong Efron, but little else new in Bundy biopic

Review: Zac Efron goes dark as Ted Bundy, but ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ is irritatingly coy

Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes review — A compelling but sketchy portrait of a psychopath

‘The Ted Bundy Tapes’ and ‘Shockingly Evil’: Why Joe Berlinger doubled down on the serial killer

Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy movie and Netflix’s documentary series, reviewed.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile movie review: Zac Efron's Ted Bundy biopic is incredibly problematic, shallow

Extremely Wicked trailer sparks criticism for 'sexualising' Zac Efron's role as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy

Conversations with a Killer review: Netflix takes stab at profiling terrifying serial killer Ted Bundy

Netflix’s Ted Bundy documentary and the problem with peak true crime