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, ...
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 ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Charlie Shackleton, whose newest documentary, "Zodiac Killer Project," dissects the tropes of true-crime documentaries.
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.