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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 “Deke” Deacon (Washington) who teams up with Jim Baxter (Malek), a up and coming LAPD detective, ...

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 have many big scares. It settles on being vaguely unsettling and has a different ending that may be ai...

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 detective Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington), now a Kern County sheriff, as he is sent to LA to gather som...

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 surface similarities with the 1995 David Fincher film. Both involve a world-weary older black cop working ...