The Black Dahlia

Give Brian De Palma credit. Tackling the fallout from California’s most grisly real-life murder would have daunted the sturdiest of directors. Even Fincher ditched it. Yet, De Palma dives headfirst into Ellroy’s doomy novelisation, emerging surprisingly unbloodied, if not a little bruised.

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