Unlike his 1995 portrait of a serial killer, "Se7en," there was no diabolically fascinating mastermind or anti-aesthetic of murder as lurid art. Instead, the trick was to ignore whatever the anemic Jake Gyllenhaal (as Robert Graysmith , a cartoonist ...
Director David Fincher ("Se7en”) recreates the look, feel and dark mood of a gritty '70s crime thriller with amazing detail and effectiveness as he dramatizes the true story of the San Francisco serial killer who taunted police and investigative ...
Forget Fight Club and Se7en . If you're looking for the real reason to consider David Fincher a major-league American director, all the evidence is right here. Zodiac is at once an epic true-crime police procedural and a genuinely chilling study in the ...
There's a polarity to Christmas movies, a chasm separating the likes of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Bad Santa." Into the breach comes "Fred Claus," neither holiday feast nor irreverent foul but something in between. This one grafts the silly and ...
BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, Okla., today in 1963. This birthday guy has starred such hits as "Interview with the Vampire," "Se7en" and his Oscar-nominated performance in "12 Monkeys." Pitt also has produced several films ...
He’s gone up the ladder: coach in “The Power of One,” detective in “Se7en,” lawyer in “High Crimes,” judge in “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” head of the CIA in “The Sum of All Fears,” and President of the United States in ...
Amid this fall's array of small, topical dramas, many of which have carried a medicinal aftertaste, "American Gangster" comes as something of a relief. It's a big, juicy 1970s period piece, one foot in real life, the other in the movies, the ...
Now Zodiac is a movie, directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, and I suspect that those who go to see it expecting a dark, brooding serial-killer chiller on the order of Fincher's Se7en will emerge disappointed. For what ...
To steal a line from Se7en : if the BCS were to split open and a UFO were to fly out, I would want you to have expected it. As I've mentioned countless times in this space, it's almost as if the entire season is being ad-libbed from week to week with ...
He is also planning to team up with Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Annette Bening and Sharon Stone in Ryan Murphy's Watergate-era political drama, Dirty Tricks . Finally, he's set to join forces again with his Se7en director David Fincher for the fantasy ...