Premiering at Sundance, director Charlie Shackleton salvages an unproduced project with a humbled, humorous video essay that's only limited by the tropes it's lampooning. Though Shackleton’s feature ...

"Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a documentary that never got to be made. Charlie Shackleton tried to buy the rights to a memoir that explored a theory about who might have murdered five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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.

None of us talk about the inherent predatory nature of true crime documentaries. They pick over the bones of cold cases and unspeakable crimes, retraumatize survivors, dramatize crimes to the point of ...

In 2012, an autobiographical novel by Lyndon Lafferty titled “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge” was published. Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac killer ...

Film still from Zodiac Killer Project (2025), directed by Charlie Shackleton (courtesy Sundance Institute) In his new film, director Charlie Shackleton muses that it’s surprising that there hasn’t yet ...

Zodiac Killer Project director Charlie Shackleton loves films about the power and limitations of film. The critic-turned-filmmaker's 2014 debut, Beyond Clueless, studies the influence of teen movies.