New trial being sought in Steven Avery "Making a Murderer" case
Steven Avery from "Making A Murderer" on Netflix (Netflix)
18 August 2022
Films & media
9 stories
Rolf Harris Book
A review of a book arguing that people will lie about sexual abuse, and that the motive is generally money.
21 May 2022
Kevin Spacey and the rise of uncancel culture
Peter Bradshaw on Kevin Spacey and the rise of 'uncancel culture' for famous men never criminally convicted.
25 May 2021
Police trawling and other tactics
Police gullibility or a rush to judgement?
The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech shows the readiness of police to believe the unbelievable in child sex abuse cases.
12 September 2020
Nick Cave: 'cancel culture is bad religion run amuck'
Nick Cave criticises cancel culture as 'bad religion run amuck' with an asphyxiating effect on society's creative soul.
12 August 2020
Innocence Files reveals the really guilty
The Innocence Files shows police breaking rules, junk forensic science and prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence.
26 July 2020
Outcry, the most surprising docuseries of the summer
Greg Kelley, the subject of Outcry, which shows a surprising, thorny, hyper-local yet deeply concerning saga. Photograph: Jim Redman/Courtesy of Showtime.
7 July 2020
"Making a Murderer" returns with a new Steven Avery lawyer to obsess over: Kathleen Zellner
Steven Avery's and Brendan Dassey's cases have stayed in the news since season 1. Zellner gives new reason to watch
19 October 2018
The Crucible: the perfect play for our post-truth times
In the 50s, Arthur Miller used 17th-century Salem to comment on the ‘red scare’. His drama is chillingly pertinent in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency
15 February 2017