From Jeffrey Dahmer to the Menendez brothers to Ed Gein, Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” series on Netflix is all about famous killers. This time, the series follows its first female protagonist — Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 hatchet murders of her father and stepmother in Massachusetts. Borden was the prime suspect
Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has acquired worldwide rights to Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi’s documentary “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies,” which is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival. Set between Tabriz and Tehran in the weeks between the 12-Day War and the subsequent
“I’m a lover, not a fighter / And I’m really made for speed,” Kinks frontman Ray Davies sang in at least one of the songs that shares a title with Slovak writer-director Martina Buchelová’s enormously engaging debut feature. The first half of those lyrics ring true for Andrej (Adam Kubala), the floundering 20-year-old protagonist of
