West of Memphis: The Miscarriage of Justice Explained

January 22, 2012

I walked into the Sundace Film Festival premiere screening of the Peter Jackson/Fran Walsh-produced documentary West of Memphis admittedly knowing little about the case of the West Memphis Three beyond what Eddie Vedder had told me (and everyone else in the world) about them, and what little I’d retained. Three kids in Arkansas were apparently wrongly convicted for murder because they were a bit…

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Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

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