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Stars: 2/5 How is it that a 90’s era crime thriller written and directed by John Lee Hancock (who worked on hits like "The Founder" and "The Blind Side") and starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto can be so painstakingly boring and unconvincing as a movie?  The answer? Forgetting the little things that matter when making a movie. Originally written by Hancock in 1993 for Steven Spielberg to direct, "The Little Things" revolves around seasoned deputy sheriff Joe “D...

Director John Lee Hancock is notable for feel good biographical dramas like The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks but takes a different route in his latest film, the serial killer psychological drama The Little Things. Hancock has been trying to make the movie for about 30 years and while he insists he wrote the script before Seven, this still feels like a limp wristed Seven clone. Still, the trio of main actors in Things elevates the proceedings. For a serial killer movie, it doesn’t really ha...

Highlander Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Following the Christmas release of “Wonder Woman 1984,” Warner Bros. announced its new pandemic strategy — their 2021 film lineup would be released simultaneously in select theaters and on its HBO Max streaming service for the first 30 days of the film’s release. First up on that list is the crime thriller led by Denzel Washington and Rami Malek, “The Little Things.” The film follows former Los Angeles (LA) police de...

Writer-director John Lee Hancock has been pointing out in interviews that he wrote the screenplay for “The Little Things” in 1993. That explains the period setting for the film, which takes place at a time before DNA usage was prevalent in tracking serial killers. But Hancock also might be stressing that date because it means he wrote it two years before “Se7en” was released. “The Little Things,” which opens in theaters and premieres on HBO Max on Friday, has more than a few surfac...

When Jared Leto let his freak flag fly as the Joker in "Suicide Squad," the Method-mad actor sent his castmates taunting gifts – a live rat, even a dead pig. Denzel Washington makes clear that definitely did not happen while filming "The Little Things," even though Leto plays cagey murder suspect Albert Sparma and Washington is the law as Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon in the psychological thriller. "He didn’t do any of that with me," says Washington, 66, shutting down the question even be...