Imagine the shock after watching Christina Ricci in Lifetime's historical thriller/courtroom drama “Lizzie Borden Took an Ax” and realizing that it was actually pretty good! No caveat required, no guilty pleasure tag needed.
Lizzie Borden Lifetime is reinventing itself. Or at least, it's reinventing the made-for-T.V. movies that were once its bread and butter. In a move that seemingly tipped its hat to the campy theatrics that its viewers craved, last week it aired a hotly
HitFixs Liane Bonin Starr reviews the Lifetime movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax.
lizzie-borden-took-an-ax-christina-ricci.jpg One of the best things about Lifetime movies — and this is said in the most affectionate, loving way possible — is their low-budget crappiness. So imagine the shock after watching Christina Ricci in the
At least that's the count in Lifetime's history-based new movie, “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe,” directed by Nick Gomez, whose past work on “The Shield,” “Sleeper Cell” and “Homicide” proves he knows how to make a mood. That's what resonates here — all