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Advantages: Stars Jake Gylanhaal brilliant actor, As good as Fight Club & Seven
Disadvantages: Twists in film not as unpredictable as in Seven but still good

...such as fight club because Zodiac is based on a true story and actual events however we are left guessing throughout the film. We know that the Zodiac was never officially caught but we are left with a pretty certain opinion of who he was and when you see the film you will realise this. We also never knew why the Zodiac carried out these killings, because the film is based on a true story and because the Zodiac was never officially caught this makes ... Read review

Advantages: Intense, realistic and some good performances
Disadvantages: It is quite long

...solving the riddle of the Zodiac killer, Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith is still following up leads as he believes he is closing down on the killer. Once in a blue moon a film comes along which grabs your attention to the extent that you stop everything else that you were doing and become transfixed, unaware of anything else except what is happening on the screen. One such film is David Fincher's "Zodiac" which retells the true story of the ...
...of San Francisco in the 60s and 70s. For me I had read the hype over the film but as is often the case was not expecting it to live up to all it's acclaim, thankfully it did and in some ways surpassed it. Part of the reason why this film bit me in the ass and made me pay attention is that it is not like your usual serial killer films. Yes a big part of the film is solving the mystery as to who the killer is as well as the unravelling of the clues, ... Read review

Advantages: A well-crafted film.
Disadvantages: A lengthy running time.

...60s, a killer calling himself Zodiac terrorises the inhabitants of San Francisco and taunts the police with cryptic letters. When he sends a complex cryptogram to The San Francisco Chronicle, it catches the eye of cartoonist and amateur puzzle-solver Robert Graysmith. Though the killer confounds the police in four jurisdictions, the young artist gets closer to the murderer than anyone else. Director David Fincher is well known for his attention ...
...better to make a film of one of the biggest and most horrific unsolved cases in legal history? Fincher tunes into the period in a remarkable way, effectively recreating the look and feel of 1970s new wave movies and layering period detail onto every frame. You can almost feel the static from the manmade fibres in every outfit and the preponderance of beige that characterised the pre-disco post-Summer of Love era. He employs a palette of sepias and ... Read review

Advantages: great dramatic movie with so much realism.
Disadvantages: none at all

Director: John Singleton Producer: Steven Nicolaides Writer: John Singleton Stars: Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding jr, Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long and Angela Basset Released in the summer of 1991 this brilliant hour and forty minute movie takes a look into the lives of the gangs who struggle to survive in the ghettos of South central Los Angeles… **BRIEF PLOT** When a bright student, Tré Styles, (played by Desi Arnez Hines), moves ...
...until he is reunited with his old friends, Ricky Baker, (played by Donovan McCrary), who is a up and coming American football player, and Darin "doughboy" Baker, (played by Baha Jackson), who is spends his time selling cocaine in the ghettos… Years later, and set in 1991, Darin, (now played by Ice Cube) spends most of his time hanging out in the "hood" after being released from prison with no real hope for the future… Ricky, (now played by Morris ... Read review

Advantages: Enthralling story telling, mixing a very serious story with charming humour
Disadvantages: The movie has dated rather a lot

...some really old fashioned qualities, Don't Talk To Stranger's is actually a far superior offering than the movie it accompanied. The movie offers a very serious message, padded out with a lot of quirky 60's British humour; Jean's younger sister Ann for example is carrying out a single handed campaign against hunting, citing her father as one of the very people she protests against "Mummy do you know how many innocent defensive foxes are slaughtered ...
...over 20 years ago. Don't Talk To Strange Men is a marvellously well crafted piece of low budget film-making directed by Pat Jackson who later went on to make The Prisoner and Enid Blyton's Famous Five TV serial. Despite the dated aspects of the movie, I feel this is an amazingly pertinent story because the link initially is created by a wrong number, and now 46 years on there are more telephone numbers than ever before, and more young people owning ... Read review