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

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.

Pretend you’re sitting down for a lovely evening at home, and you fire up the streamer of your choice. You’ve already seen The Jinx, and The Most Dangerous Animal of All, and Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey ...

Though David Fincher's version of the case remains a gold standard here, some of the movies and characters inspired by the ...

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 ...

Zodiac Killer Project is about Lyndon E. Lafferty’s 1970s search for the Zodiac Killer. Yet it’s also far more than that: a deconstruction of both Lafferty’s quest and the cinematic form director ...

Charlie Shackleton is no stranger to exploring the internal workings and boundaries of film form. The British director, critic and multimedia artist continues his work of (de)constructing narratives ...

It’s a rhetorical question, but also one that Panahi already seems to be in the process of answering by the time that he asks it. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that it’s a question he ...

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