Documentarist Amy Berg puts a human face on the pedophiliac priest: the extremely creepy one of Father Oliver O'Grady (familiarly, "Father Ollie"), a serial abuser, of both sexes, in several parishes in Northern California in the Seventies and Eighties (youngest victim: nine months). His willingness to talk about the case, …
A hardheaded detective, determined to crack an ages-old crime involving two young women who served time for infanticide, becomes emotionally involved with the case. The mystery-movie-of-the-week premise is buoyed by the evenly detailed performances from the four female leads (Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, and newcomer Danielle Macdonald, playing …
Documentarian Amy Berg (West of Memphis) trains her eye on a great voice of the '60s.
The “West Memphis Three” -- Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin -- were teenagers in 1993 when they were wrongfully convicted of the murders of three 8-year old boys. Directed by investigative journalist Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), West of Memphis picks up where Joe Berlinger and Bruce …