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

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

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.

Originally intended as an adaptation of a book about the Zodiac Killer before being denied the rights, Charlie Shackleton’s impressive documentary instead explores the true crime film that never was.

"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 ...

British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton's "Zodiac Killer Project" spoofs true crime tropes but drags on for 92 dull minutes, proving some films shouldn't be made.

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