Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige get their due; an estranged couple come face-to-face in Shudder's 'Quicksand'; and Peacock has a fresh take on a cold case with 'Myth of the Zodiac Killer.'
Reflecting on the 100th anniversary of immensely popular Negro League baseball is particularly instructive during this time of racial reckoning.Anyone who’s watched a lot of old cartoons and adventure movies from the mid-20th century knows all about quicksand. In fictional stories, it’s an ordinary-looking patch of earth that consumes and drowns unsuspecting hikers who flail too much after sinking into it.
As a study of a failing marriage, “Quicksand” is pretty contrived. Josh and Sofia have a lot of baggage they need to unload, so what happens? They literally end up mired in one spot for hours, face to face, where they have no choice but to talk through their problems.
A go-nowhere subplot about criminals sneaking around the jungle pads out the running time to little effect. But “Quicksand” still mostly works on a primal level as a survival story. Here are two people, reluctantly working together, using everything at hand to escape the sucking muck. That’s the essence of drama.‘Myth of the Zodiac Killer’
Inspired in part by a Thomas Henry Horan book, director Andrew Nock’s two-part true-crime documentary “Myth of the Zodiac Killer” takes a fresh look at a set of late 1960s San Francisco area murders that have remained officially unsolved — although countless amateur sleuths have tried to decipher the codes left by the anonymous person who claimed responsibility.
Nock approaches this controversy as a neutral observer, pursuing Horan’s leads as well as the path of the cryptographers. Nock makes himself a character in this documentary, which is often distracting, because his deadpan detective act (reminiscent of the controversial nonfiction filmmaker
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