Joe Lipsett

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 […]

Aaliyah Innocent. May was a busy subgenre-switching month. After kicking things off with disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen), we watched American Giallo The Fan (listen), then wrapped things up with Vincent Price’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (listen). Now, in honor of Pride Month and the return of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (renamed The Vampire Lestat for […]

In Hollywood, IP is king, and everything is cyclical. It should come as no surprise, then, that even a smaller title like The Stepfather (1987) has gotten the remake treatment several times over.

Short Murder King. Trace and I are nearing the end of Pride month, which has included the tepid adaptation of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned (listen), as well as Ben Stiller’s homo-tinged black comedy The Cable Guy (listen). Now it’s time for British writer/director Emerald Fennell‘s “Eat the rich” thriller/satire Saltburn (2023). In the film, […]