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The Zodiac Killer terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the well-informed cinephiles who read Moving Pictures will know that David Fincher’s “Zodiac” (2007) is one of the best movies of the century.
The film focuses exclusively on the 1970s, beginning the moment the Beatles officially break up in April 1970 and spanning through John Lennon’s death in 1980.
Horror films are no different: gore, jump scares, final girls, supernatural forces, monsters, masked murderers and more are the reasons we want to watch scary movies in the dark.
Pike River feels like a procedural, a contemporary labor fable, and a fight for justice all at once.
The new Netflix cop picture The Rip starts with a bang when the captain of a narcotics division is gunned down after communicating with an undercover agent.
Just when cinema needed a Superman, James Gunn gave us JustOKMan, but 2025 was a middling year at the movies at overall.
Noah Baumbach’s new Netflix picture Jay Kelly is a road movie that rambles across Europe, but also between past and present, cataloging the regrets of a man who seems to have everything.
Secret Mall Apartment is a documentary about an odd art project in an inhospitable space. It’s also about contemporary struggles with affordable real estate, and how those pressures affect creative communities.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein delivers Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel as the sprawling gothic epic it was always meant to be.
Steve brings viewers a story about a community of outsiders struggling against the indifference of society and its cold and calculating systems.