The A.V. Club: What was your familiarity with the Lizzie Borden story going into the show? JH: Nothing, except for the song. You know, “Lizzie Borden took an ax / And gave her mother 40 whacks / And when she saw what she had done / She gave her father A Fall River, Massachusetts, jury … Read more
It's a sensation she touched on during her visit to TODAY Thursday to promote her upcoming Lifetime miniseries "The Lizzie Borden Chronicles" — in which she plays the title character, who's just been acquitted of giving her It's a sensation she touched on during her visit to TODAY Thursday to promote her upcoming Lifetime miniseries … Read more
Having chopped up the ratings with a 2014 movie, Lifetime shrewdly returns to the scene of the crime with “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles,” an eight-episode limited series whose success seems virtually assured on the strength of those blood-soaked But according to the 2014 Lifetime Original Movie, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, starring Christina Ricci in … Read more
No one's safe around this Borden. All right, so maybe children will never jump rope to that ditty the way they did to another about the same woman. But it's a suitable introduction to a sly new Lifetime series, “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles,” which Having chopped up the ratings with a 2014 movie, Lifetime shrewdly … Read more
It's not just a disturbing nursery rhyme! Now the true story of how Lizzie Borden murdered her parents (or did she?) in the summer of 1892 is being brought to Lifetime, with Christina Ricci as the eponymous Lizzie. No one's safe around this Borden. All right, so maybe children will never jump rope to that … Read more
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her (step)mother 18 whacks. Father got 11. 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 lizzie-borden-took-an-ax-christina-ricci.jpg One of the best things about Lifetime movies — and this is said in the most … Read more
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 … Read more
A few days after the murder, Lizzie Borden burned a dress in a stove claiming that it was ruined after she got paint on it. Some speculate she burned the dress because of blood stains. • Just before Lizzie's parents were killed with an ax, there was If you've watched cable television this week you've … Read more
The true story of Lizzie Borden who stood trial for the hatchet murders of her parents. Read all of the facts and events surrounding her trial and eventual acquital. If you were casting in your mind for a 30-ish actress to play the title role of Lizzie Borden in a television movie about her life, … Read more
“Lizzie Borden Took an Ax” isn't rewriting history or floating new theories. Sometimes slasher flick, sometimes courtroom drama, this “Lizzie” is a cynically dark, shamefully fun account of an all-American crime, its only suspect freed by a jury but In case you're having trouble keeping score, Lifetime is owning 2014. Just one week after blessing … Read more