True Crime Movies

[JDow]

Easily my favourite true crime movie is 'Out of the Blue'. It's a 2006 movie (one of Karl Urban's first I think) which recreates (very accurately, in my opinion) the massacre in the small New Zealand town of Aramoana in 1990. It's pretty gruelling stuff, but then if we wanted Bambi we wouldn't be watching true crime

J

[sdreid]

Anyway, we at least still have the Elizabeth Montgomery movie.

[sdreid]

I don't have IMDbPro so that's all I have on it.

[sdreid]

IMDb does have 2012 date on it but I don't see an exact date yet.

I see that they have now changed the Lizzie Borden release date to (????) so who knows if it or when it will happen.

[sdreid]

How was The General?

[Magpie]

Picked up a couple of movies about Martin Cahill last month. "The General" which is a drama, which I haven't watched yet (although I read the book many years ago). And "Ordinary Decent Criminal" with Kevin Spacey, which is a comedy/caper type movie based on Cahill's career. Bloody good movie, which manages to keep pretty close to Cahill's life story, while downplaying his brutality and keeping it light. It's quite funny, in a dry, British kind of way.

[sdreid]

IMDb does have 2012 date on it but I don't see an exact date yet.

[sdreid]

Chloe Sevigny is set to play Lizzie.

[sdreid]

They are supposed to start filming it later this year.

[sdreid]

Hopefully the HBO Borden miniseries will warrant mention.

[sdreid]

OK Magpie - thanks for the tip.

[Magpie]

Is his murder a major part of the film Magpie?

It starts and ends the movie, more or less.

It deals with the tensions leading up to the murder, but doesn't really dwell on the murder itself.

[sdreid]

Is his murder a major part of the film Magpie?

[Magpie]

Not sure if it really counts, but I saw "Notorious" yesterday--a biopic about Notorious B.I.G.

Considering I have zero interest in either rap in general or Biggie Smalls in particular, it was a pretty good movie.

[sdreid]

Thrilling 35:

35-Ed Gein (2001-U.S.-1:28) The same said Wisconsin serial killer

34-The Black Panther (1977-U.K.-1:30) British arch-criminal Donald Neilson

33-Swoon (1991-U.S.-1:35) Black and white rendition of Leopold and Loeb

32-The Deadly Tower (1975-U.S.-1:33) Charles Whitman's murder spree

31-In Broad Daylight (1991-U.S.-1:30) Unsolved murder of town bully Ken Rex McElroy

Thanks Rob