British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac killer took place, when he discovered that a documentary that he planned to ...

Director Charlie Shackleton hoped to make his own true-crime movie. When he was denied the rights, he went forward anyway, taking his frustration out on the genre.

How a director's dream true crime project accidentally became the most entertaining and insightful media criticism of 2025.

Charlie Shackleton explains how he would have made a film had he won the rights to a book on a murderer. The result is a fascinating look at a whole genre.