CRIME CULTURE – True Crime News Weekly

CRIME CULTURE: The prisoner & parole

March 15, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

A former police officer who killed his wife was up for parole. Gary Johnston explains what happened next in this piece taken as an excerpt from his book ‘No Previous Conviction’.

CRIME CULTURE: Narcos – Mexico

February 22, 2019 Serkan Ozturk 1

It’s the latest instalment in the increasingly popular ‘Narcos’ series from Netflix. This time the action switches to the ‘greenfields’ of Mexico in the 1980s as Sinaloa’s Guadalajara Cartel go from wide-eyed cannabis innovators to cynical cocaine couriers for the Colombians.

CRIME CULTURE: Casting JonBenet

February 1, 2019 Sophie Winter 0

Any unsolved crime, especially something as heinous as the murder of a child, is bound to attract speculation. The thought that a killer like that lurks among us is haunting.Perhaps that’s why Casting JonBenet manages to be so beguiling twenty years after the infamous and still unsolved murder of six-year-old pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey. Sophie Winter with her verdict.

CRIME CULTURE: American Animals

November 16, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

The year was 2003 and a quartet of college idiots were about to set out to their university library in one of the dumbest heists ever planned. Gary Johnston gives us his verdict on whether new doco-drama American Animals captures the spirit of their infamous criminal caper.

CRIME CULTURE: Glengarry Glen Ross

October 3, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

It’s the 1992 film set in the sleazy real estate world of New York where fraudster Donald Trump used to reign as king before becoming the most powerful man in the United States. Gary Johnston on why this business crime classic featuring an all-star cast led by the incomparable Al Pacino is even more relevant today.

CRIME CULTURE: Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson

September 24, 2018 Therese Taylor 0

The popularity of true crime podcasts and investigative crime documentaries has exploded over the past five years. Greenlight – the debut novel by stand-up comedian Benjamin Stevenson – places the media right in the centre of a young backpacker’s murder. Therese Taylor with her view on this new Aussie thriller.

CRIME CULTURE: You Were Never Really Here

September 14, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

It’s the Joaquin Phoenix starring crime-action film that’s been dubbed “this generation’s Taxi Driver”. Is this nihilistic revenge thriller up to the hype? Gary Johnston with his considered verdict.

CRIME CULTURE: Nightcrawler

September 7, 2018 Serkan Ozturk 0

Many parts of Nightcrawler sicken the viewer and act as a warning on some of the most disturbing aspects of the media and humanity, however large segments of the film also speak to the ethos of this very website and burgeoning independent media. True Crime News Weekly publisher, Serkan Ozturk, explains why this 2014 gem of a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo will be seen as a crime classic for years to come.

CRIME CULTURE: BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, Aug 31 – Sept 2

August 29, 2018 Serkan Ozturk 0

It’s a festival like no other featuring a line-up of ex-cons, former judges, detectives, crime-fiction novelists, forensic psychiatrists, true crime writers, psychologists and crime reporters. And it’s on this weekend in Sydney.

CRIME CULTURE: Scrublands by Chris Hammer

August 11, 2018 Therese Taylor 0

A priest massacres members of his own church congregation in a drought-ridden New South Wales town. Charles Sturt University academic, Therese Taylor, explains why the newly released Scrublands is such a timely novel.

CRIME CULTURE: Border Politics

July 19, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

Is hate, fear and ignorance the new Australian way? Or, are present-day fears around asylum seekers and refugees an undying ember of an even darker past? True Crime News Weekly correspondent Gary Johnston takes a look at the new documentary film, Border Politics.

CRIME CULTURE: Chappaquiddick

May 23, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

The art of the political cover-up is explored in fine detail in the historical thriller Chappaquiddick, with the film raising important questions on the way powerful elites view ordinary people as expendable. Gary Johnston takes a look for True Crime News Weekly.

CRIME CULTURE: The List by Michael Brissenden

March 1, 2018 Therese Taylor 0

Noted political journalist, Michael Brissenden, has taken some time out away from the news to turn his hand to crime-fiction writing in a novel that also places the cost of Australia’s participation in futile wars in the Middle East to the fore. Charles Sturt University academic, Therese Taylor, gives her take on The List.

CRIME CULTURE: Get Carter

February 22, 2018 Serkan Ozturk 1

After almost 50 years following its release, the crime-fiction film Get Carter is now regarded as both a gem of the noir genre, and also a treasure of British cinema. True Crime News Weekly publisher, Serkan Ozturk, takes a philosophical look at a Michael Caine classic.

CRIME CULTURE: Den of Thieves

February 15, 2018 Gary Johnston 1

This is the first instalment of a new regular series from True Crime News Weekly looking at ‘crime’ in the media and across pop culture. We’ll investigate how realistic it is, how accurate it is, and how good it is. The first to come under our gaze is the newly released American heist film, Den of Thieves.