Zodiac at the Pavilions

Join me for a revival of Zodiac, David Fincher at his best, with an all star cast.

‘Zodiac” is the “All the President’s Men” of serial killer movies, with Woodward and Bernstein played by a cop and a cartoonist. It’s not merely “based” on California’s infamous Zodiac killings, but seems to exude the very stench and provocation of the case. The killer, who was never caught, generously supplied so many clues that Sherlock Holmes might have cracked the case in his sitting room. But only a newspaper cartoonist was stubborn enough, and tunneled away long enough, to piece together a convincing case against a man who was perhaps guilty.
The film is a police procedural crossed with a newspaper movie, but free of most of the cliches of either. Its most impressive accomplishment is to gather a bewildering labyrinth of facts and suspicions over a period of years, and make the journey through this maze frightening and suspenseful. I could imagine becoming hopelessly mired in the details of the Zodiac investigation, but director David Fincher (“Seven“) and his writer, James Vanderbilt, find their way with clarity through the murk. In a film with so many characters, the casting by Laray Mayfield is also crucial; like the only eyewitness in the case, we remember a face once we’ve seen it. (Roger Ebert ****/****)

Tickets available online and at the box office
https://www.regmovies.com/movies/mom2-zodiac-ho00022341?date=09-18-2026&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb-listing&site=1315&id=271009

4 hours of free validated parking in the structure under the Pavilions, entrance on Welton betweet 15 and 16th.

We will walk to the Denver Press Club (3 ish blocks away) for a beverage and debrief after the film. Well deserved after this film!