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 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.

British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac ...

Zodiac Killer Project is about Lyndon E. Lafferty’s 1970s search for the Zodiac Killer. Yet it’s also far more than that: a deconstruction of both Lafferty’s quest and the cinematic form director ...

All Charlie Shackleton had to do was give the Sundance Film Festival a 90-second video introducing himself and his documentary Zodiac Killer Project, which premiered at the festival on Monday. Instead ...

A serial killer meta-documentary was on the loose this week during the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic. British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton ...

“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it’s not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer — though ...

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

It’s worth mourning the films we’ll never get to see: the unfunded epics, the unmarketable art films, perhaps even the unengaging streaming product. Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton faced that grief when ...