Between the crime and the punishment comes the judgment. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Anubis weighed the heart of the deceased against a feather. Ancient China maintained an underworld bureaucracy overseen by the Ten Magistrates of Hell. In Christian theology, the quick and the dead assemble Read More …
Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg, focuses on the trial of Ernst Janning, a fictional German jurist accused of crimes against humanity in one of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals that occurred following World War II. But the film isn’t just interested in examining Ernst Read More …
There’s no shortage of qualities to praise about Anatomy of a Murder. The slick jazz score by Duke Ellington lends an element of timeless cool, while the cackle-worthy screenplay easily makes this one of the most entertaining legal dramas of all time, if not one Read More …