In 1999, Tom O’Neill was commissioned by Hollywood-centric film magazine Premiere to investigate exactly what had — by then — happened a mere 30 years earlier, when a small-time criminal, Charles ...

The documentarian may have been pivotal to creating the language of true crime, but he’s not immune to streaming bloat. Photo: Netflix So why bother? Well, O’Neill, an entertainment reporter whose ...

If you’re a fan of sophisticated, epistemologically intricate nonfiction filmmaking, it might not occur to you to click the thumbnail for something called Chaos: The Manson Murders when it pops up on ...

I’m one of those people — there are a lot of us — who is always up for a Charles Manson movie. There have been so many! All the documentaries and dramatizations. Not to mention the TV specials, both ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The true crime subgenre has become the bread and butter of the streaming documentary business, with more titles than one could possibly mention populating queues on Netflix and beyond.