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Don your waterproof slicker and pull on those thigh high rain boots. It's time for the storm drenched final leg of Christopher and Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, Pacific Northwest Nightmares. Gary Ridgway was a predator so prolific and diabolical he became a household name. Better known as the Green River Killer, his decades long reign of terror in Washington State revealed pol...

The Southern Sins portion of the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival concludes with DEVIL'S KNOT, a screen adaptation of one the most widely publicized and divisive true crime cases in recent American history, the story of the West Memphis Three. But does this Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth big screen vehicle tell the story we came to hear? Your hosts Christopher and Eric have no shortag...

How have Christopher and Eric gone this long without discussing the Robin Hood Hill murders, the case that essentially gave birth to the modern day true crime genre? In this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, they serve up THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE: AN ID MURDER MYSTERY, which encapsulates the dark saga of gruesome murder and rank injustice that divided a town and spawned several...

Southern Sins continues with the second in a true crime pairing. This particular installment of True Crime Movie Time presents a searing and disturbing cinematic look at a South Florida murder steeped in sexual repression, abuse and addiction. No stranger to controversy, director Larry Clark made a name for himself chronicling the lives of America's troubled and disaffected youth. So it's no surpr...

Christopher and Eric kick off the Southern Sins portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with this wrenching look at addiction and murder among a group of disaffected teens in the Sunshine State. Meet Bobby Kent, a popular and good looking weight lifter — and a bully so vicious his closest friends decided there was only one way to put an end to his abuse. This installment of Tru...

In their discussion of the 1973 film BADLANDS, Christopher and Eric wrestle with their own belief in artistic freedom while confronting a dramatized version of real life crimes that essentially rewrites history in its pursuit of artistic license. The directorial debut of American cinema icon Terence Malick changes the names to protect not just the innocent, but the guilty as well. While the movie...

Midwest Mayhem departs the big and dirty city and heads to the bleak countryside for its second true crime pairing, the disturbing story of Charles Starkweather and Carol Fugate, two young killers whose gruesome crimes shocked a nation and inspired numerous film versions in the years that followed. In THE REAL 'NATURAL BORN KILLER', CHARLES STARKWEATHER (BORN TO KILL), available to stream on the O...

Some days your hosts think this podcast should be retitled THIS IS NOT THE MOVIE WE REMEMBER. Such were the feelings of both Christopher and Eric when they revisited what many consider to be a classic mafia film. If by classic you mean shot through with the dangerously self-assured, vigilante ethos of the Reagan years and a penchant for absurdly wild spectacle that throws history out the window. T...

Christopher and Eric kick off the Midwest Mayhem portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with an all new true crime pairing devoted to two of the most mythologized figures in the history of American organized crime. Thanks to its snarky European producers, the documentary ELIOT NESS VS. AL CAPONE offers vicious commentary about the so-called land of the free. (To our Chicago ba...

East Coast Carnage wraps up the second half of another true crime pairing as the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival continues its exploration of the Son of Sam killings. Spike Lee is one of our most skillful and accomplished filmmakers. He's also no stranger to controversy. But does his film SUMMER OF SAM inspire the wrong controversy and for all the wrong reasons? Forget David Berkworitz...

East Coast Carnage heads to the Big Apple and the Five Boroughs as Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival continues. For the first time, Christopher and Eric tackle one of the most notorious serial killer cases of all time, the Son of Sam killings, which terrified the New York area during the late 1970's. As they serve up this episode of WORLD'S MOST EVIL KILLERS: DAVID BE...

  East Coast Carnage continues on Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with the second in a true crime pairing about the Boston Marathon bombings.  The Peter Berg directed  film PATRIOT'S DAY offers some of the closest parallels between fact and fiction your hosts have encountered yet. But the film's glimpse behind the masks of the diabolical men responsible for this hor...

East Coast Carnage,  the next chapter in Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, kicks off with the Boston Marathon bombing, a horrific act of terrorism that's still fresh in many of our minds. Even though they thought they knew the story, Christopher and Eric were unprepared for the emotional impact of MARATHON: THE PATRIOT'S DAY BOMBING, streaming on the recently renamed...

In the final episode of California Screaming month, we bring you an all new installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time. This time they're opening the vaults and blowing the dust off some ¾'' video cassettes — otherwise known as scrolling through pages on Paramount + — to serve up this creaky, sanitized and maybe-not-quite accurate TV movie, THE CASE OF THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS. After...

A new "true crime pairing" in California Screaming month begins with this latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, serving up a two-part documentary special about the case that ushered in a new era of human depravity and horror in the City of Angels. In episodes 7 and 8 of season 4 of VERY SCARY PEOPLE: "The Hillside Stranglers Part 1 and 2", host Donnie Wahlberg channels his...

California Screaming Month continues with the second in a true crime pairing devoted to a killer who has become more phantom than human, more conspiracy than evidence. When Christopher and Eric first watched David Fincher's ZODIAC years ago, they were both equally awed by its technical expertise and a laser-like focus on its subject matter. But how does it hold up against the blizzard of facts abo...

Christopher and Eric's cross country journey of murder and mayhem begins with California Screaming month, the first chapter in the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, a series of episodes devoted to "true crime pairings" featuring some of America's most notorious human predators. How have your hosts gone this long without covering the Zodiac killer (or killers, plural)? Perhaps it's the st...

In the final burst of April Showers Bring Van Gogh Flowers Month, Christopher and Eric embark on a dizzying international journey that begins with a swift and skillful break in at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which your hosts visited only weeks before. (They're innocent. We promise!) In STEALING VAN GOGH: THE GREATEST ART HEIST OF THE 21st CENTURY on the Real Stories You Tube channel, art his...

April Showers Bring Van Gogh Flowers Month unleashes another storm as your hosts bring you an unusual selection for this "true crime pairing", AT ETERNITY'S GATE, an art house biopic of one of the world's greatest artists, whose works have been subjected to numerous allegations of fraud and instances of theft. Julian Schnabel might be a celebrated visual artist, but as a filmmaker, is he up to the...

April showers bring Van Gogh flowers as Christopher and Eric celebrate their return from Europe with a twisty, international true crime tale involving the incredible artist they paid tribute to on their recent trip abroad. Vincent Van Gogh's life and career were short and marked by great mental challenges culminating in a tragic end. Today he's considered one of the greatest painters of all time....

You didn't think you could get rid of them that easily, did you? Christopher and Eric return from their European adventure full of their usual dazzling recollections and chesty complaints.  After celebrating their birthdays overseas, your hosts serve up answers galore to all of the questions you posted about their trip on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Which work of art most moved them? Wh...

Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. But when they went looking for local newspaper articles about Billy's gruesome and disturbing murder, the pickings were slim. Worse, there wasn't a word about the case to b...

Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. Meanwhile, documentarian Rachel Mason's groundbreaking, Ryan Murphy-produced film, CIRCUS OF BOOKS, had helped humanize sex workers by offering a wry peek inside the ordina...

Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. Meanwhile, empty nester Clark Williams was trying to find a new direction in life after his daughter had departed for college. Then he encountered an article about a shocki...

Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. After a series of shocking revelations, the case has been solved, and a victim in danger of being forgotten has now been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times...