57 m. ago Amanda Knox reveals how Monica Lewinsky helped rebuild her life as they unite on red carpet for launch of new series

Amanda Knox has revealed how Monica Lewinsky became her mentor as she tried to rebuild her life after being exonerated in the death of of her roommate Meredith Kercher.

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2 h. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox: What is fact and what is fiction in the Disney drama?

A new eight-part series sees Knox’s memoir about her conviction and eventual acquittal for the murder of Meredith Kercher adapted for the small screen. Helen Coffey attempts to sort reality from artistic licence

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3 h. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review – shockingly tense TV from Knox and Monica Lewinsky

The script is often dodgy, and there is no involvement from the family of murdered student Meredith Kercher, but this show that’s executive-produced by Knox and Lewinsky is an astonishing tale of justice’s flawsTwo things need to be borne in mind about The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, a new true crime drama. The first is that Knox and Monica Lewinsky – both members of “The Sisterhood of Ill Repute”, as Knox has described them in the past – are executive producers of the show. The second is that the family of Meredith Kercher, the 21-year-old British exchange student with whose murder Knox and others were charged in 2007, were not involved in the series. Her sister Stephanie said last year to the Guardian: “Our family has been through so much and it is difficult to understand how this serves any purpose.”To the first point: it is undoubtedly true that the subject of The Twisted Tale is Knox and her survival of an extraordinary and extraordinarily awful experience, and while not hagio...

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28 h. ago Monica Lewinsky teams up with Amanda Knox for new Hulu docudrama

The series premieres on Wednesday on Hulu about an American student wrongfully imprisoned for four years in Italy for the murder of her roommate

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33 h. ago Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy review – the details are so sad but are we really shocked?

His grief-stricken friends and co-stars are moved to tears remembering his genius. But this film feels increasingly disingenuous, like a race to get to the ‘good’ stuff the criminal investigation sparked by his deathThere is a reason the sitcom Friends was so popular from the off and became such a juggernaut so quickly. The writing was brilliant, and the six actors in it were astonishing individually and even better together. Comedy is alchemical, and they transmuted gold into pure joy.Matthew Perry formed one sixth of the troupe as Chandler Bing. Every actor had their particular strength and his was perhaps to be the nimblest, the most alive to the currents crisscrossing any scene he was in. He was the only one of the cast allowed in the writers’ room to contribute, and from that maybe we can infer he was the most naturally funny off set too. Certainly his timing, even in the extraordinary company he kept, was immaculate. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago What to Stream: Offset, John Cena, John Grisham and legal fights by Jussie Smollett and Amanda Knox

Migos rapper Offset releasing his third solo album “Kiari” and Samara Weaving playing a reformed getaway driver in the heist thriller “Eenie Meanie” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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5 d. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Disney+ review: twists itself in knots

Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinsky have collaborated on this convoluted eight-part miniseries that takes creative swings and misses

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5 d. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review – Unusually bubbly drama offers no closure

Eight-part series about one of the 21st century’s most overtold stories serves only to deepen the voyeuristic mythology around its subject

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7 d. ago 'Mez has been forgotten in all of this': The real Meredith Kercher, the lost victim in the Amanda Knox case

Meredith Kercher, the lost victim in the Amanda Knox case – and the family left serving a “life term” of loss

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1 week ago Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

Locarno film festivalBlue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflementSo here it is – the third but, incredibly, perhaps not the final episode in the most bizarre arthouse franchise in film history, and which, for its sheer melodramatic ker-aziness it commands attention. So, as it were, previously on Mektoub My Love The first film in the series from Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, who had won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour (for which he was famously required to share the award with his two acting leads Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux), arrived in 2017. This first MML (called Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno) turned out to be an epic erotic summer romance set in the early 90s about a guy called Amin (Shaïn Boumedine) who comes back from Paris to his hometown of Sète, having abandoned his medical studies to follow his dream of being a screenwriter, and finds ...

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2 w. ago Amanda Knox admits she wants to reconcile with murdered Meredith Kercher's family

Over 15 years since her murder conviction was squashed by a judge Amanda Knox, has said she would love the opportunity to reconcile with Meredith Kercher's siblings

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