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A number of new movies will be released this week, including the following films opening in theaters or debuting via video on demand on various streaming platforms:
Ted K Review: Sharlto Copley Is the Unabomber in a Slow-Burning True-Crime Study Ted K Review: Sharlto Copley Is the Unabomber in a Slow-Burning True-Crime Study Peter and the Farm director Tony Stone takes an ambient, minimalistic approach to the life of notorious domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski.
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For a criminal who revealed his agenda in exhaustively detailed black-and-white via his famous essay “Industrial Society and the Future,” published in The Washington Post months ahead of his 1996 capture Ted Kaczynski remains a somewhat unreadable figure. The domestic terrorist better known as the Unabomber killed three people and injured two dozen more in a national bombing campaign aimed at protesting man’s environmental destruction and technological dependence. Yet his manifesto shed little light on who he actually was, or how a mild-mannered math professor
Sharlto Copley plays the Rocky Mountains wilderness recluse who became known to the world as the Unabomber in Tony Stone s unsettlingly intimate true crime thriller.
The underseen but arresting 2016 documentary feature
Peter and the Farm is a warts-and-all portrait of a flinty Vermont loner and his volatile relationship to the land that has consumed him for more than three decades. Its director, Tony Stone, now blurs the line between nonfiction and narrative filmmaking to depict another solitary man inseparable from his natural environment in
Ted K, a piercing psychological probe into the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber. Played by Sharlto Copley in a febrile performance so wired it s almost uncomfortable to watch, Ted Kaczynski is revealed here in his own words, lifted from 25,000 pages of writing that predates his arrest in 1996.