Erin Lee Carr's latest HBO crime doc goes beyond sensational headlines on the Michelle Carter suicide texting case

Here are the essential true crime stories of the 2010s and how they changed storytelling and the real world

Was it all the murder talk?

Today's catch includes: "True Blood's" Sam Trammell with kittens, Ryan Adams being metal, and Woody's latest film

From biting and bondage to actual bloodletting, "House of Hammer" uncovers startling stories about the actor

In which two mysterious deaths are described in, ahem, detail and it's assumed that the victims were not engaged in premeditated sex.

Salon talks to the "The Daily Show" alum about her new special, Trump, and her uniquely political voice

Director Erin Lee Carr spoke to Salon about finding radical empathy for her documentary subjects – except for one

How a software application brought political satire to the masses. Plus: The candidates' hot-tub embrace and other steamy gallery images.

Is Brandon Cronenberg's icy, nightmarish "Antiviral" a tribute to his dad's '70s films, or an Oedipal assault?

The three-part series will also delve into the troubling history of abuse within Hammer's family dynasty

It's so awful, and yet we can't stop watching

New exhibit reveals the twisted logic of the Department of Agriculture's marketing department through the years

The singer may not be allowed to enter the country because of his history of domestic abuse

"Am I going to be as honest with myself as I need for my subjects to be?" the filmmaker and memoirist tells Salon