Does having autism make someone more or less likely to become a killer? It’s an uncomfortable question, yet it sits at the heart of this undeniably tragic yet often frustrating documentary. The film never quite knows whether it wants to explore the mystery of a family’s demise or the complexities of neurodivergence, and that tension…
The Truth About Jussie Smollett sets out to re-examine one of the strangest celebrity scandals of the last decade. In 2019, Smollett, best known for his role on the TV series Empire (which I’d honestly never heard of before watching this), reported that he was the victim of a brutal hate crime in Chicago. According to his account,…
Some true crime stories will never be satisfactorily solved. At heart this tragedy is a story of two children called Jack and Sarah Corbett and how they lost their dad. It is also the story of the ‘truths’ we tell ourselves and inflict, sometimes unknowingly on others. Especially children and in this case Jack and…
