![]() ![]() “I dub cartoons for Disney,” he tells her, the first of a marriage full of lies. A young Kuklinski is explaining his job on a first date with his prospective wife (Winona Ryder, who should’ve been filmed through much thicker gauze). The movie opens in moody, half-lit, neo-noir 1964 New Jersey. It’s also selective editing on the part of writer/director Ariel Vromen, who seems intent on turning Kuklinski’s life into “A Very Special Sopranos” episode. It’s a testament to Michael Shannon’s powerhouse performance that Kuklinski comes across as nuanced and conflicted - a family man who’s gentle and loving with his wife and kids, aside from an occasional outburst, but happens to make a living in brutality. Short-fused and violent, beaten as a child who in turn tortured dogs and cats, he was always going to be a killer either way the Mob just offered him a career. ![]() The documentary, however, has not broken into the Top 10 overall list, which is being dominated by Sweet Girl, The Loud House Movie, and Manifest in the top three spots.Although Richard Kuklinski is often described as the infamous contract killer or mob hitman in materials for the new movie inspired by his life, The Iceman, he seems more like a serial killer who just happened upon a few employers who were willing to pay him for his hobby. The top half of the movies chart is made up of The Kissing Booth 3, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Vivo, The Loud House Movie, and Jason Momoa's latest film Sweet Girl, which claims the No. 6 spot among all movies on the streaming platform, coming ahead of Walk of Shame, Home, Major Payne, and Beckett. Given that Netflix has become a go-to resource for true crime content, it came as little surprise when Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes immediately made its way onto Netflix's Top 10 charts upon its debut. ![]() With access to 250 hours' worth of tapes recorded from Nilsen's prison cell, the documentary features Nilsen narrating his life "from a young boy growing up in a quiet Scottish fishing village to a cold-blooded murderer prowling the streets of London." As true crime lovers, writers, and journalists continue to speculate over his motive, Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes for the first time offers up Nilsen's own viewpoint. In 1983, he confessed to killing 15 people. ![]() Over a five-year period, Nilsen picked up vulnerable young men, lured them back to his home and strangled them, before disposing of their bodies under the floorboards. 18, the chilling 90-minute film from director Michael Harte explores the life and crimes of notorious British serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Debuting on the streaming library on Wednesday, Aug. ![]()
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