Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler (2014) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by: Dan Gilroy Written by: Dan Gilroy Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton Rating: 14A Release Date: October 31st 2014 Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed in Nightcrawler Source: http://www.nightcrawlerfilm.com/#gallery Its rare these days we see a low budget, non-sequel, adult thriller at the multiplex. In an age where screens are dominated by formulaic comic book heroes that come with a built-in audience, and mindless sequels that reinforce the hegemonic ideology of the military industrial complex, (thanks for that, Michael Bay... and... my thesaurus), original thrillers don't come along often. It's even rarer when a writer gets full creative control over his own creation; Nightcrawler is that kind of beast. Satirizing sometimes cruelly and sometimes hilariously the blood soaked tabloid culture of today, writer/director Dan Gilroy, (the screenwriter for Tw