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, taking his frustration out on the genre.

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 ...

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.