Joe Lipsett

80s Hair Dramatics. After a month in London’s Whitechapel district discussing different permutations of Jack the Ripper, including Johnny Depp’s From Hell (listen) and Michael Caine’s 1988 miniseries (listen), it’s time for Murder Made Fiction to explore a new subject: whistleblowers. In Mike Nichols‘ 1983 drama Silkwood, Meryl Streep plays real-life activist and attempted whistleblower Karen […]

In advance of the season four premiere of MGM+s FROM this Sunday, April 19 at 9pm ET/PT, here’s a refresher of where we left off with this series’ puzzle box of horrors. From hails from creator John Griffin, who writes the teleplay for most episodes, alongside regular co-writer Jeff Pinkner and LOST‘s Jack Bender, who usually […]

From the opening scene of writer/director Felipe Vargas’ Hive, it’s clear that something is wrong in the white, affluent suburb of Coral Grove. The Tubi original opens with a racialized nanny stumbling through the streets, pleading for help and bleeding from the head, before she’s bludgeoned and spun (seemingly to death) on a merry-go-round. Matched […]

Throughout the month of April, Murder Made Fiction has been examining films on the theme of ‘Whistleblowers’, including Silkwood (listen), Erin Brockovich (listen), and Dark Waters (listen). At the same time, on Patreon, we’ve been discussing Nuclear Disasters, focusing primarily on Craig Mazin‘s five-part limited series Chernobyl, as well as two films chronicling the near-meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi […]

A new month means a new guide as titles are added (and dropped) from streaming services. Let’s unpack the most exciting titles that are available to watch on Tubi in May 2026. New to Tubi May Horror Films American Carnage (2022) Premise: After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the newly detained youth are offered […]

Triptych of Terror. After spending April laughing at James Gunn’s horror comedy Slither (listen), revisiting Boris Karloff in The Mummy (listen), and debating M. Night Shyamalan’s “comedy” The Happening (listen), we’re closing out the month with an underseen Robin Williams gem. In 2002’s One Hour Photo, writer/director Mark Romanek developed one of the darkest roles of […]

Homoerotic Boarding School. April has been a month of alien slugs (Slither – listen), Universal Monsters (The Mummy – listen), disaster “comedies” (The Happening – listen), and character studies (One Hour Photo – listen). Horror Queers ushered in May with an underseen co-production between the UK and Australia: a bizarre little 2006 psychological thriller called Like Minds, written […]

After spending April discussing Whistleblowers such as Karen Silkwood, Erin Brockovich, and Rob Billot, as well as Chernobyl (listen), Murder Made Fiction podcast has dedicated May to fictional adaptations of the notorious Black Dahlia case. Born Elizabeth Short, the infamous LA murder from 1947 has been the subject of several films and TV shows, but these […]

Parasocial Peril. May has been a delightfully odd mix of titles, including Robin Williams’ One Hour Photo (listen), Aussie/UK thriller Like Minds (listen), and seminal disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (listen). Adding to the fun is our most recent film: a revisit of the classic stalker title, The Fan (1981). *We previously tackled the film in our editorial series here. […]

A new month means a new guide as titles are added (and dropped) from streaming services. Let’s unpack the most exciting titles that are available to watch on Tubi in June 2026. New to Tubi June Horror Films Alien Vs. Predator (2004) Premise: During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves […]